All Features articles – Page 29
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PII special: Science of compliance
COLP and COFA roles are much-maligned but they have successfully focused firms on risk.
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PII special: Seeking closure
Only a third of solicitors are aware that the Solicitors Indemnity Fund closes in 2020. Look at your cover!
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PII special: Cutting negligence claims
Insurers should come clean on specific behaviours giving rise to claims.
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Europhile in at Petty France
David Lidington claims to care passionately about access to justice, but his voting record is open to question.
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Judicial college: Bench marks
The Judicial College offers invaluable e-training that sharpens the skills of judges and bolsters their battered morale.
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Law Society Council: The day we went to Cardiff
The Law Society Council met in Cardiff for their annual meeting.
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Money ball
A tsunami of cash flowing into the sector means that sports lawyers are busier than ever.
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Middle East challenges to dispute resolution professionals
Despite new arbitration and enforcement laws in Saudi Arabia, the Gulf States, and even Dubai, remain difficult jurisdictions for the enforcement of judgments and international arbitral awards.
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The path to transformation
Negotiating the matrix of legal AI - what firms need to consider when implementing the latest technology.
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Futures market - Private client
Helping people navigate their lives can be immensely rewarding, hears Grania Langdon-Down, but where is the next generation of private client solicitors?
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What a CEO wants
What does a chief executive seek from their general counsel? Hays plc’s CEO Alistair Cox wants a confidante and critical friend.
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Act for SMEs
Law firms must be innovative with charging structures to exploit rising demand from 5.5 million SMEs.
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Over achiever: Alexandra Marks
As the deadline approaches for entries to the Law Society Excellence Awards, Jonathan Rayner catches up with last year’s winner of the lifetime achievement accolade
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Belgium: Union city blues?
Brexit and the crisis of confidence in the EU are creating uncertainty for foreign lawyers based in the Belgian capital. But business is brisk, reports Marialuisa Taddia
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Make agile working work
Professionals are demanding flexible working – and legal employers which have responded claim excellent results
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Boom to bust?
As different jurisdictions vie for business, Brexit is beginning to look like a serious own goal for insolvency and restructuring practitioners. Marialuisa Taddia reports
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India: Office politics
India will be one of our most important trade partners post-Brexit, but foreign firms are still not allowed to open offices there.
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Don’t leave it to the lawyers
Clients are are in the vanguard of the ‘great legal reformation’ which is transforming the way law firms work
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Employee ownership: stake holders
Law firms slow to embrace employee ownership schemes are missing a trick.