All Features articles – Page 16
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Remote possibilities
Online education and training requires different content, better mentoring and more support for learners. But will it be any cheaper? Marialuisa Taddia reports
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Pro active
Travers Smith’s award-winning director of pro bono talks to Jonathan Rayner about a multifaceted career and why he decided to set up his own charity.
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Postcard from abroad: Charlotte Gerrish, Gerrish Legal
In the second of our series examining how English law is being used in different jurisdictions, we hear from Charlotte Gerrish, who works at Gerrish Legal in Paris.
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How firms have been supporting women during the pandemic
We hear from Farmida Bi, Olivia Balson, Susana Cao Miranda and Sarah Mook.
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Hard times - PII roundtable
Covid-19 has helped to deliver the hardest market for solicitors’ indemnity insurance since demutualisation more than 20 years ago. Eduardo Reyes reports from the Gazette’s latest roundtable
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International Women’s Day: Invited – and asked to dance
To mark International Women’s Day, Law Society office-holders I. Stephanie Boyce and Lubna Shuja talk to Eduardo Reyes about women’s leadership in law
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How the Covid-19 pandemic has affected women
Three solicitors from across the profession reflect on a year of home-schooling, working from home and running a business.
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Postcard from abroad: Matthew Murphy, MMLC Group
Founder and managing partner in Beijing and Hong Kong.
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Review: The Law Society Art Group 61st exhibition
Art can work very well online, as the virtual exhibit proves.
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Law Society Art Group embraces online exhibition
This year, the show brings together artworks by 32 members of varying expressions and subjects.
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Youth must be served
Concerns abound at the quality of justice dispensed by the youth courts – the operation of which shocks even hardened defence lawyers.
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Saving private client
Private client solicitors have had to rethink the way things are done in the last year, but they are relying on more than the pandemic to grow their practices.
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Looking for answers
Our coroner service is fragmented, outdated and overdue for reform, reports Rachel Rothwell
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In 2021, will ‘agility’ become reality?
Nearly a year on from the first national lockdown, many firms see digital transformation as a springboard for innovation. Even lawyers with no coding knowledge can create tech.
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Improving mental health in the legal sector
There is a growing recognition in the profession of the challenges it faces and an increasing desire for positive change.
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Restrictive practices
Is the state in danger of developing an ‘authoritarian muscle memory’, as the government responds to Covid-19 with rule by decree? Marialuisa Taddia canvasses opinion on the implications of the crisis for the rule of law
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Covid-19 and its impact on a law school legal advice centre
Head of Nottingham Law School Legal Advice Centre Laura Pinkney reflects on the consequences of the pandemic.
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Croeso i gymru
No Welsh government has faced a challenge like Covid-19, which has highlighted the realities – and limitations – of devolution, writes Marialuisa Taddia. If the crisis does pave the way for further governance reforms, will Cardiff finally take control of justice and policing?
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Horizon scans
Could ‘lockdown 3’ really be the time to consider changing job – or even specialism? There are plenty of opportunities out there, discovers Katharine Freeland.