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OpinionSchooled by scandal
Shabana Mahmood demands changes to address SRA failures and prevent scandal akin to Axiom Ince from recurring. But how interventionist is the regulator now mandated to be?
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OpinionSell-by dates
SME law firms are losing their appetite for mergers. Buyouts? That’s a different story.
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OpinionMerger mania subsides
Appetite for mergers and acquisitions has ‘plummeted’, LexisNexis report finds.
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OpinionExistential dilemma
In former times, traffic between top US law firms and government or public service was heavy – to the point of apparent co-dependence.
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OpinionCalling in the experts
Have you completed the Gazette’s pioneering joint survey with Bond Solon of how solicitors work with expert witnesses?
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OpinionCourt in two minds
I was planning a Private Eye pastiche for this column. Unfortunately, the Eye itself beat me to it.
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OpinionDirty dealing
Are equity partners, earning multi-millions, truly expected to die on Capitol Hill over their firms' DEI policies?
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OpinionLeader: Shelf lives
Consumer watchdogs want the SRA to help solve the access to justice crisis. That was my first take on a new report from the Legal Services Consumer Panel.
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OpinionOld chestnut back in season
Is momentum building again for a root-and-branch reform of legal services regulation?
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OpinionLight relief?
What would a ‘light-touch’ approach to litigation funding regulation look like?
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OpinionGlass houses
Last week I noted that the Law Society’s benchmarking survey was awkwardly timed, finding as it did that client interest is turbocharging practice profits.
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OpinionNo more ‘free money’?
Might the prospect of tipping dozens of law firms into financial trouble deter the SRA from imposing a ban on pocketing interest on client money?
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OpinionMoney isn’t everything
District judges earn £134,000 a year, more than 3.5 times the average UK salary for full-time employees. Is it enough?
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OpinionThree’s no crowd
Gateley, Knights and Keystone Law are the only standalone law firm businesses with a stockmarket listing.
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OpinionIn the national interest
Chancellor Rachel Reeves summoned a phalanx of industry regulators to lecture them on the need to ‘tear down the barriers’. Legal watchdogs appear to have received a pass.
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OpinionA theory of rights
Labour claims new rights will be transformative for workers and private renters.
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