All Features articles – Page 23
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FeatureHow to: Retire
Retirement can herald the happiest days of a lawyer’s life – or the start of a new career. Jonathan Rayner talks to three solicitors about how they have made the most of their golden years.
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FeatureLabour pains
New employment tribunals president Barry Clarke wants the system’s reputation to emerge from the crisis enhanced. It’s a tough ask, hears Melanie Newman.
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FeatureTaken to the brink
As we await the Ministry of Justice’s annual report, Melanie Newman canvasses practitioners about how the department is performing.
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FeatureRates of inflection
The pandemic has forced law firms to recognise that digital transformation is key to future success, but which Covid-driven changes will become part of business as usual?
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FeatureUneasy Street
Lockdown has laid bare the vulnerabilities of our under-resourced legal ecosystem. Housing law is among the most exposed areas.
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FeatureLaw Society spotlight: Risk and compliance
How remote working has complicated your regulatory duties – and how the Law Society can help.
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FeaturePenalised for parking on your own land
Funny thing, the law. You would not, for instance, think you could get a ticket for parking on your own land. But you can.
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FeatureA new world of work
As lockdown restrictions ease, the general consensus is that the government’s furlough scheme has only delayed inevitable redundancies. But many working in legal recruitment remain cautiously optimistic, reports Maria Shahid
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FeatureShock to the system
Proposals for an ‘online court’ were already behind schedule when 90% of hearings switched overnight to remote proceedings. As the coronavirus recovery plan kicks in, Marialuisa Taddia finds out how far the reform programme has come.
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ProfileIt’s black and white
Racism remains pervasive in our society, says Leslie Thomas QC, Gresham College’s new professor of law. Eduardo Reyes hears how lawyers have a responsibility to combat it
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FeatureIn the giving vein
It is hard to imagine the charitable sector without lawyers, yet the interaction between the two has not always been harmonious.
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FeatureAlternative legal services provider
Excited by the business of law rather than black letter law? Then go and work for an ASLP. Katharine Freeland reports.
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FeatureMilitary mettle
‘Warfare no longer looks like a tank driving over a battlefield,’ says the head of Army Legal Services. These days lawyers are on the frontline – in every sense.
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FeatureLearning the lessons of lockdown
A partner and associate at Dentons describe their lockdown experience.
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FeatureLitigation Pandemic?
Coronavirus is already creating a raft of contractual and insurance disputes, with far-reaching consequences for the economy.
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ProfileBy royal appointment
Leeds legal mainstay Shulmans this year became the first law firm to win a prestigious Queen’s award for enterprise. Employment partner Jim Wright tells Jonathan Rayner how they did it
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FeatureBurning Bridges: restrictive covenants and LLPs
For many years, partnership advisers have questioned the applicability to LLP members of the general principle in Bridge v Deacons [1984] that onerous restrictive covenants are more likely to be enforceable against partners.
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FeatureFamily fortunes
A huge backlog of family cases, increased by lockdown, is just one of many challenges facing family lawyers, writes Katharine Freeland
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FeatureGoing 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?