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All articles by Paul Rogerson – Page 4
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OpinionGo compare
Turns out evaluating a lawyer is rather more involved than giving your Uber driver five stars. Still, the SRA is on a mission.
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NewsMisconduct: 'No simple explanation' for race bias in complaints
Project commissioned by SRA to investigate over-representation of minority ethnic solicitors in disciplinary process publishes literature review.
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OpinionChalk walks the walk
For a lord chancellor and justice secretary to attend the London Legal Walk is a vanishingly rare event.
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OpinionSterling work
News that A&O plans to merge with Shearman & Sterling came out of nowhere. But is it a good idea?
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OpinionPainful divorce
CILEX’s bid to jilt CILEx Regulation and elope with the SRA is intriguing. Not only of itself, but also for what it might portend.
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OpinionSubjects object
How can the scope of lawful protest be left so casually unclear? One plausible answer is that this lack of clarity is deliberate.
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NewsPost Office: lawyers’ decision-making ‘corrupted’
Academic study focuses on review conducted for the Post Office by eminent silk.
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OpinionChalk – and cheese?
The new lord chancellor and justice secretary is unlikely to have clout in cabinet to secure the funding and investment the justice system so desperately needs. But he's far from powerless.
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OpinionA change in the weather
Like it or not, climate change is a fast-growing business risk for lawyers.
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NewsNews focus: Critics of 'woke' climate guidance are missing the point
The Law Society has taken a global lead by producing guidance for solicitors on how the ‘climate crisis’ will affect the profession and adapting to a rapidly changing landscape.
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News'Get with the programme' and go digital, Vos tells commercial lawyers
‘Analogue’ litigation processes need to be rethought if London is to remain pre-eminent, master of the rolls says.
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OpinionMinding the language
Family breakups are lifechanging. The language of the law should connote their gravity.
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NewsLaw Society issues landmark guidance on climate change
Solicitors can help heavy-emitters transition to net zero - but may also refuse to act, Chancery Lane confirms in 'milestone' advice.
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OpinionAnomie of the people
‘Anomie’ – ‘a condition of instability resulting from a breakdown of standards and values or from a lack of common purpose’ – appears in danger of taking hold of the legal profession.
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News‘Cultural transformation’: Beleaguered bar watchdog unveils turnaround plan
Bar Standards Board’s budget climbs 13% as regulator also pledges probe of solicitor referrals.
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OpinionTomorrow’s problem today
'Living pension' first suggests that employer pension contributions will become more of a differentiator in recruiting scarce talent.
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FeatureSME law firms still hitting the mark
Society's annual bellwether makes encouraging reading for small and medium-sized solicitor firms.
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OpinionIt’s all in the numbers
Chancery Lane's financial benchmarking survey is required reading for SMEs which aspire to rank among the best managed of their peers.
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NewsLaw firms sustain pandemic profits rise – but WFH hurting productivity
Law Society’s annual benchmarking survey also shows SME practices remain cautiously optimistic for 2023.
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OpinionIndustrial revolution
Is generative AI about to do for legal services what the spinning jenny did for the textile industry?