Features – Page 7

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    The body clock is ticking for Big Law

    28 June 2024

    Flexible working.

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    Hard selling

    28 June 2024

    Resolving trade disputes efficiently and equitably is key to global peace and prosperity. Joanna Goodman reviews the growing challenges parties face in maintaining trade relations as globalism wanes.

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    Anatomising a disaster

    2024-06-26T15:17:00Z

    Sir Brian Langstaff delivered his final report on the infected blood scandal last month. Fiona Scolding KC, who represented over 300 victims, examines how the state failed them so badly – and the role played by lawyers and the legal system.

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    Sweating the small stuff

    2024-06-25T09:40:00Z

    Small and medium-sized enterprises are the backbone of the economy. Katharine Freeland looks at the snowballing challenges facing legal advisers who are helping these businesses to scale up or sell up.

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    Data page – June 2024

    2024-06-20T13:32:00Z

    The latest data page figures, compiled by Moneyfacts, are now available.

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    Seeing and believing

    14 June 2024

    Regulations around the ethical and environmental credentials of businesses are tightening, leading companies of all sizes to rely more heavily on their lawyers. In the first of two features on ESG reporting, Katharine Freeland looks at the position of clients.

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    Breaking tradition: Irwin Mitchell leads industry shift with Lexis+ AI

    2024-06-10T13:26:00Z

    (Sponsored content.) Tahsin Arabi explores the transforming legal landscape thanks to the rapid rise of generative artificial intelligence.

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    Growing your own

    7 June 2024

    The advent of the SQE has made it easier to train within an in-house legal department. Will more aspiring solicitors eschew the private practice route to qualification? Catherine Baksi reports.

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    Bridging the digital funding gap

    2024-05-27T19:23:00Z

    Julie Bishop and Alex Charles of the Law Centres Network worry that a shortage of cash is hindering access to justice.

  • Flora Sitwell
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    Legal Neurodiversity Network: nurturing talent

    24 May 2024

    Optimising retention and career progression for neurodivergent individuals in the legal profession.

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    Keeping house

    24 May 2024

    Solicitors and law firms continue to quit conveyancing. So what reforms of the home buying and selling process would persuade them to stay?

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    Data page – May 2024

    2024-05-20T15:41:00Z

    The latest data page figures, compiled by Moneyfacts, are now available.

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    Can we fix it?

    2024-05-20T11:40:00Z

    Respected, business-friendly and innovative, the Technology and Construction Court is a trailblazer. But could it become a victim of its own success? Joanna Goodman reports.

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    Networking with a difference

    17 May 2024

    Mental Health Awareness Week.

  • Joshua Rozenberg
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    Assange saga approaches its denouement

    2024-05-18T00:01:00Z

    Today, Julian Assange may hear whether his extradition is finally going ahead.

  • Whitney Joseph
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    Opening the door

    2024-05-14T00:01:00Z

    For 20 years the Law Society’s Diversity Access Scheme has helped aspiring solicitors from disadvantaged backgrounds become solicitors. Catherine Baksi discovers that it has never been more needed.

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    How to: use LinkedIn

    10 May 2024

    With its humble brags and ‘personal journeys’, LinkedIn is the professional networking and social media platform everyone loves to hate. Yet, as Eduardo Reyes hears, it’s too big to ignore. Lawyers may as well get it right as they carry on posting.

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    Seven in ten wills ignore the issue of digital legacy

    2024-05-08T15:35:00Z

    How many of us have planned a good digital legacy? Solicitors and financial advisers can help change that. (Advertising feature.)

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    Let all talent rise

    2024-05-07T14:06:00Z

    In the second of two articles on disability in the legal profession, Katharine Freeland looks at the experiences of – and what must be done for – solicitors seeking to climb the career ladder.