All articles by Paul Rogerson – Page 10

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    Taking the high road

    22 March 2021

    It was clear to me that many solicitors south of the border envied the Scots their seemingly inviolable autonomy.

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    Opinion

    Covering the bases

    8 March 2021

    Law firms renewing PII last year encountered the hardest market seen since demutualisation two decades before. 

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    Demobbed armies

    1 March 2021

    What the Uber case has once again demonstrated is the tardiness of the law and its enforcement.

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    Opinion

    Office politics

    22 February 2021

    Firm’s blueprint for a post-pandemic office environment was met with scorn from some of the profession’s more conservative moral gatekeepers.

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    Opinion

    Savings at a premium

    15 February 2021

    Profit margins on motor books will remain healthy.

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    The human touch

    8 February 2021

    One’s experience of lockdown is intensely personal, shaped as it is by temperament, age, material circumstance and even gender (women do more home schooling, for example).

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    Opinion

    Third-party poopers

    1 February 2021

    Malicious content posted by unhappy customers on third-party web platforms can cost a firm money.

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    Opinion

    Away from home

    25 January 2021

    In current circumstances, how many examples are there where it is business-critical that staff come in to the office?

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    Opinion

    Hiding from history

    18 January 2021

    The past is messy, contradictory and often ambiguous. But it does a disservice to the present to hide from it.

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    End of the beginning

    11 January 2021

    The appearance of legal services in last month’s Brexit deal was certainly a pleasant surprise.

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    Opinion

    When money talks

    14 December 2020

    White solicitors take home £9 an hour more than their BAME counterparts. 

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    Opinion

    Paying the price

    7 December 2020

    SRA cannot afford for a such a debacle as the Beckwith case to recur.

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    News

    News focus: Post-Beckwith, SRA must focus on 'what matters to clients’

    7 December 2020

    Will the SRA stop insisting 'solicitors are paragons of virtue' in their private lives?

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    News

    Beckwith: Solicitors’ sex lives ‘their own business’, says regulation guru

    2020-11-30T12:30:00Z

    Regulators should not 'hitch themselves to transient public bandwagons', says Solicitor’s Handbook author.

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    Opinion

    Irish eyes not smiling

    23 November 2020

    Few can be surprised the Republic of Ireland appears disinclined to indulge the UK as we skirt the cliff-edge of ‘no deal’.

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    Opinion

    Reality checking

    16 November 2020

    The legal profession is no more immune to cognitive dissonance than any other sector.

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    Opinion

    Big game hunting

    9 November 2020

    ‘Game-changer’ sprang to mind when Big Four outfit Deloitte announced acquisition of Kemp Little.

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    Opinion

    Pretty green

    26 October 2020

    Paul Rogerson You will have noticed something different about the weekly Gazette. I am delighted to confirm that we have made the permanent switch from plastic polywrapping to paper envelopes. Many environmentally aware readers have requested this in recent months and I am delighted to oblige. Studies ...

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    Make the connection

    19 October 2020

    Paul Rogerson Editing the Law Society Gazette, a behemoth among B2B magazines, is a genuine privilege. But it can be exasperating. For as long as I’ve been around, small firms have complained that we write too much about big firms – and vice versa. (And don’t forget ...

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    In search of a ‘new better’

    19 October 2020

    For David Greene, the Law Society’s new president, the best of times has come at the worst of times. But he is raring to go, hears Paul Rogerson