All Features articles – Page 22
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FeatureSelf 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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FeatureLockdown 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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FeaturePower 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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FeatureDoes being good at your job put you at risk?
Flip side of competence is being at high risk of burnout.
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FeatureNorthern 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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FeatureHome-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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FeatureHow to work in new ways
With Covid-19 shutting offices and forcing teams apart, Katharine Freeland looks at remote, flexible and agile working
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FeatureAn uphill battle
Global efforts to achieve equality for women at the top of the legal profession are struggling to get results. Melanie Newman finds out what is going wrong – and what is working.
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FeatureHome truths
Conveyancing is in need of an overhaul – but will vested interests thwart effective reforms? Marialuisa Taddia reports.
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FeaturePace Odyssey
Policymakers and criminal lawyers talk to David Cowan about how well the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 has stood the test of time
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FeatureChallenging conversations with clients
Without training in mental health first aid, we may damage trust in the client-lawyer relationship.
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FeatureHappy anniversary?
As the Commercial Court turns 125, litigators are confident it can remain globally pre-eminent despite the threat of rival jurisdictions and Brexit uncertainty. Jonathan Rayner reports.
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FeatureWhat the SQE means for law firms
The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) intends to introduce the Solicitors Qualifying Examination (SQE) in the autumn of 2021.
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FeatureConnecting the dots
Innovative platforms are enabling advisers to deepen their relationships with clients, while at the same time identifying new business opportunities for law firms.
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FeatureFollowing the footsteps of the first
106 years after the courts told would-be lawyer Gwyneth Bebb she was not a ‘person’, Catherine Baksi takes a walk with her granddaughter
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FeatureThriving, not just surviving
Greater awareness of mental health makes us healthier, happier and able to do our best work.
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FeatureOnly connect: Sarosh Zaiwalla
Sarosh Zaiwalla has always looked overseas for work – a strategy, hears Jonathan Rayner, that has brought him cases ranging from sanctioned banks to the return of ancient religious idols
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FeatureBringing your ‘whole self’ to work
‘Sausage machine’ of the past is slowly being replaced with new ways of working, taking into account lawyers’ individual experiences and commitments.
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FeatureRuling elite
The bench still looks nothing like the society from which it is drawn, reports Melanie Newman. Do we need targets and quotas, or are some barriers to judicial diversity self-imposed?
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FeatureFeminist, reformer, pioneer and figurehead
Helena Normanton made legal history by becoming the first woman to join an Inn of Court, Middle Temple, on 24 December 1919, the day after the Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act was passed. I ‘discovered’ Normanton in 2002 when helping the Women’s Library at London Metropolitan University with an exhibition. Shamefully, ...