All articles by Paul Rogerson – Page 14
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OpinionCity cornucopia
A magic circle partner once said there was no reason why top City partners should not earn as much as Premier League footballers. Now they do.
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OpinionA question of trust
Our biggest companies care more for their external ‘stakeholders’ than ever before.
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OpinionWorking hypothesis
Thinktank’s forecast that the five-day office week will return looks like a vain attempt to stuff the genie back into the bottle.
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OpinionFrom famine to feast
After surviving a famine, conveyancers are now invited to a feast. We should not be too surprised.
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OpinionOnly connect?
Pronouncement by bar councils of Britain and Ireland on remote hearings was notable for its singularity alone.
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OpinionInformation is power
How law and access to justice operate is not something most people want to think about until they are obliged to engage with them. How do we change this?
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ProfileFirst impression
How will we persuade the politicians of the future to fund the justice system properly? Start teaching law to schoolchildren, new Law Society president I. Stephanie Boyce tells us.
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OpinionKeeping on keeping on
‘Crisis, what crisis?’ Paul Rogerson Older readers may recall that this fatal utterance doomed Jim Callaghan in 1979, ushering in Thatcherism. It didn’t matter that the last Old Labour PM did not actually speak those words in the wake of the ‘Winter of Discontent’. ‘Crisis, what ...
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OpinionRisk - a new frontier
How can one reach a new definition of ‘risk’ to a legal practice in an environment of remote and/or hybrid working?
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OpinionRebels with a cause
Junior lawyers have become increasingly vocal – indeed militant – on issues such as diversity, bullying, toxic masculinity in the City and work-life balance.
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OpinionTaking the high road
It was clear to me that many solicitors south of the border envied the Scots their seemingly inviolable autonomy.
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OpinionCovering the bases
Law firms renewing PII last year encountered the hardest market seen since demutualisation two decades before.
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OpinionDemobbed armies
What the Uber case has once again demonstrated is the tardiness of the law and its enforcement.
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OpinionOffice politics
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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