All articles by Paul Rogerson – Page 12
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OpinionA painful divorce
CILEX's extraordinary brinkmanship in seeking to jilt its regulator in favour of the SRA prompts many unanswered questions.
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NewsNews focus: It’s an ill wind - top City firms break profit records
PEP exceeding £2m is the new virility benchmark for magic circle firms. It has been a ‘perfect year’, but how long can the beanfeast continue?
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OpinionA good job, well done
Regulators would do well to properly assimilate the findings of a Legal Services Consumer Panel survey.
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OpinionGoing soft
‘Soft skills’ are indeed a commodity, but if they are perceived to be increasingly important in the law then this is all to the good.
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OpinionThird degree
‘Social justice warriors or ambulance chasers?’ That was a question recently posed by one European newspaper, in a rare explainer for the general public on litigation funders. Paul Rogerson The answer, of course, is ‘neither’. The third-party funding industry exists to generate a profit for investors, and ...
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OpinionPulling rank
I hesitated before alluding to the ‘Brexit dividend’ at the outset of this column. Please hold your fire, dear reader, while I find my tin helmet…
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OpinionMinister of defence?
Sir Christopher Bellamy’s appointment as justice minister means he may have to defend government policy which is seemingly at odds with his own report.
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OpinionWAGS and tales
You can’t blame the tabloids for the media feeding frenzy which has attended the so-called ‘Wagatha Christie’ trial, presently unfolding a stone’s throw from where I am now sitting. As an episode of Footballers’ Wives (highly recommended), it would probably have ended up on the cutting room floor. Totally unrealistic. ...
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OpinionPaying for the privilege
International firm Stephenson Harwood made an unprecedented splash by laying down the law on home working.
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OpinionSounding off
Judicial diversity (or the lack of it) remains a seemingly intractable bone of contention among lawyers.
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NewsIn Focus: Law firm profits leapt 40% in the pandemic - annual benchmarking survey
Annual bellwether reveals that it was not just the City giants that boomed during the pandemic.
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OpinionDisaster averted
Research published two years ago indicating thousands of small firms could collapse within months seems alarmist now.
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OpinionBeginning of the end game
We have reached the point of no returns, literally and metaphorically.
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FeatureMorality tales
Highlights and pointers from this year's annual risk and compliance conference.
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OpinionThe moral maze
There is an important difference between morals and professional ethics. How many could adequately articulate the distinction?
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NewsComparison sites could ‘shut out’ small firms and BME solicitors – Law Society
Chancery Lane opposes mandatory signposting through digital comparison tools.
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NewsSRA probes exposure to sanctioned clients
'Thematic review' following issues raised in parliament will report this autumn.