All Features articles – Page 20
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Going mobile
The legal profession appears to be doing a lot to foster social mobility, using data-driven recruitment methods and helping children from disadvantaged backgrounds to enter the law. But is all this work making a real difference, or is it just burnishing the image of the biggest firms?
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Pressures of a pandemic
Prioritising your mental health during lockdown is not a waste of time.
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Moving mental health to the top of the legal agenda
Law firms cannot afford to not care right now.
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Whose Team are you on?
As the Covid-19 epidemic rages, law firms have embraced a plethora of online tools to keep their businesses going and identified the tech which offers genuine life support
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Staying powers
Marialuisa Taddia canvasses practitioners on coping with a dysfunctional immigration regime made worse by the pandemic.
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Covid-19 public inquiry: Asking the right questions
The government is facing calls for a public inquiry into its response to the coronavirus pandemic. What form should such an inquiry take and what should it investigate?
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Running for cover
With premiums on the up and income in freefall, the Gazette assembles a panel of brokers and solicitors for insights and advice on professional indemnity insurance. Maria Shahid reports.
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Public law challenges: What happened next
Seminal public law challenges disappear from the media radar after final judgment is handed down. What happens next is not always what one would expect.
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Legal engineer
In the first of a new series on alternative legal careers, Katharine Freeland looks at legal engineers and the skills needed to thrive in this increasingly important role
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Crash test
Covid-19 has prompted unprecedented collaboration between personal injury claimant lawyers and the insurance sector. Could this new spirit of co-operation survive the pandemic?
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Shutting up shop
The impact of lockdown on commercial real estate and the sector’s legal advisers will be profound.
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Past in the present
Three decades separate the onset of Alexandra Marks’ and Charlotte Parkinson’s legal careers. What could they possibly have to say to each other? Quite a lot, we discover.
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Self starters
After just three years the ‘continuing competence’ regime is already being reviewed. Was the SRA right to deregulate professional development?
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Lockdown or pitstop?
A generational shift in working practices accelerated by the Covid-19 lockdown has far-reaching implications for legal tech. There will be no going back.
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Power grab
Is a UK daily death toll numbered in the hundreds distracting us from unjustified assaults on our rights and the responsibilities of government?
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Does being good at your job put you at risk?
Flip side of competence is being at high risk of burnout.
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Northern powerhouse
Lower operating costs, highly respected learning institutions and a proactive development agency are helping transform Northern Ireland’s legal services sector. Marialuisa Taddia reports on a province that has become a magnet for leading international firms
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Home-made justice
For the lawyers and expert witnesses involved, the first trial conducted through Skype was a success – but that enthusiasm is not shared by the litigant.
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How to work in new ways
With Covid-19 shutting offices and forcing teams apart, Katharine Freeland looks at remote, flexible and agile working