All Columnist articles – Page 9
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So much good work for lawyers goes unsung
There is a natural tendency for members of professional organisations to take pleasure in running down the headquarters.
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Mother in Law: The best bits about my training contract
Diary of a busy practitioner, juggling work and family somewhere in England.
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Judges join lawyers in the bear pit
Judges are also facing heavy pressure at the intersection between law and justice.
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Chalk off to a good start at Justice
Alex Chalk's unique selling point on the criminal justice system is that he knows whereof he speaks.
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21st century justice: look abroad for new ideas
The Law Society's justice project aims to develop ideas to revitalise access to justice, ADR and digitalisation. We must look at how other countries achieve the same goals.
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Scared by cyber-attacks? You should be
AI means targeted scam attacks are about to get a lot more common and much more sophisticated. And for the cybercriminal, law firms are very desirable prey.
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Mother in Law: Life hacks
Diary of a busy practitioner, juggling work and family somewhere in England.
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Five legal wishes after the Coronation
Jonathan Goldsmith reflects on the Coronation Oath, coherence between symbols and the world we inhabit, and peaceful protestors.
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Lessons of the CBI scandal
Are our systems robust enough to encourage an environment where people can both work easily with each other and also call out wrong behaviour?
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Mother in Law: All present and correct – but at what cost?
Diary of a busy practitioner, juggling work and family somewhere in England.
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When BigLaw's mask slips
'Non-negotiable expectations' of how junior lawyers should behave, shared at a US firm's training event, have created an inevitable online storm.
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QOCS: a shift in the balance of power
How the new qualified one-way costs shifting rules will affect litigation dynamics and behaviour will soon become apparent.
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Mother in Law: Memories
Diary of a busy practitioner, juggling work and family somewhere in England.
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Lawyers: beware AI’s hallucinations
As chatbots confidently pump out false information, professional bodies should take notice.
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Here's hoping for a golden age
We can neither look back nor forward to a time when our citizens’ access to dispute resolution and legal transactions can be held out as an ideal model.
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Mother in Law: Pleading my guilt
Diary of a busy practitioner, juggling work and family somewhere in England.
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Cool rules for a hot debate
When there is conflict between public interest and the client’s interest, what is the correct balance? The more we argue about this topic, the better.
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Unworkable bills and the rule of law
What happens when a government passes laws which are not capable of being implemented?
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Devil in the detail of economic crime reform
Which prosecuting authority will be in the lead? How widely will the new offence be drawn? Will it apply extraterritorially to overseas subsidiaries?