All Features articles – Page 3

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  • Watering can business
    Feature

    Growing your own

    7 June 2024

    The advent of the SQE has made it easier to train within an in-house legal department. Will more aspiring solicitors eschew the private practice route to qualification? Catherine Baksi reports.

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    Bridging the digital funding gap

    2024-05-27T19:23:00Z

    Julie Bishop and Alex Charles of the Law Centres Network worry that a shortage of cash is hindering access to justice.

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    Feature

    Keeping house

    24 May 2024

    Solicitors and law firms continue to quit conveyancing. So what reforms of the home buying and selling process would persuade them to stay?

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    Feature

    Can we fix it?

    2024-05-20T11:40:00Z

    Respected, business-friendly and innovative, the Technology and Construction Court is a trailblazer. But could it become a victim of its own success? Joanna Goodman reports.

  • Whitney Joseph
    Feature

    Opening the door

    2024-05-14T00:01:00Z

    For 20 years the Law Society’s Diversity Access Scheme has helped aspiring solicitors from disadvantaged backgrounds become solicitors. Catherine Baksi discovers that it has never been more needed.

  • Mark Blois
    Feature

    Let all talent rise

    2024-05-07T14:06:00Z

    In the second of two articles on disability in the legal profession, Katharine Freeland looks at the experiences of – and what must be done for – solicitors seeking to climb the career ladder.

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    Show us the money

    2024-05-07T08:22:00Z

    Windrush, contaminated blood, child sexual abuse – the state claims victims of high-profile scandals don’t need lawyers to secure proper compensation. Experience suggests otherwise, reports Eduardo Reyes.

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    Feature

    Touching the void

    26 April 2024

    Seven years into mandatory pay gap reporting, Joanna Goodman reports on whether and how large law firms have used the data to narrow the gender divide.

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    Feature

    Ghost in the machine

    26 April 2024

    Generative AI is transforming legal work. That has potentially significant ramifications for professional negligence claims and how solicitors insure themselves.

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    Feature

    LIDW24: Uniting the dispute resolution community

    2024-04-23T14:03:00Z

    Joanna Goodman speaks with Michael Fletcher, co-chair of London International Disputes Week 2024. The Gazette is this year's media sponsor.

  • Pushing the door
    Feature

    Crowded house

    19 April 2024

    The bedrock of our criminal justice system, the magistrates’ courts, is in crisis. So is it time to consider a radical overhaul? Catherine Baksi reports.

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    Feature

    Building better

    12 April 2024

    Economic and ecological challenges have combined to focus attention on the perceived shortcomings of 70-year-old landlord and tenant legislation. Maria Shahid reports on how this is affecting the commercial property market and the litigators who work in it.

  • Phase 2 clapper board
    Feature

    Double take

    5 April 2024

    Feelings run high on the multiple-choice ‘super-exam’ SQE1. Part two has had less scrutiny. Joanna Goodman takes a closer look.

  • Liberal club
    Feature

    My London club: reflections on the Garrick row

    2024-04-05T10:39:00Z

    It matters how accessible elite institutions are.

  • Paul Green (left) and Cleveland Davidson
    Feature

    Unfinished business?

    2024-03-26T00:01:00Z

    The Police and Criminal Evidence Act transformed the criminal justice process. As it turns 40, Catherine Baksi canvasses opinion on whether the legislation is showing its age.

  • Robot books
    Feature

    A matter of trust

    22 March 2024

    In the second of two features on AI adoption, Joanna Goodman looks at the evolution of the technology’s regulation, as the legal sector learns how and when to trust it.

  • Stressed businessman
    Feature

    Occupational hazards

    2024-03-19T15:17:00Z

    Employment lawyers are braced for the reintroduction of fees at a time when tribunals continue to struggle with the volume of claims. Fresh legislative upheaval will also have a profound effect on how they work, writes Catherine Baksi.

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    Feature

    Look back in anger

    15 March 2024

    It is 50 years since the pub bombings which led to the convictions of the Birmingham Six. Eduardo Reyes revisits episodes that shame the police, lawyers and judges with Chris Mullin, whose campaign exposed a notorious miscarriage of justice.

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    Feature

    The longest journey

    8 March 2024

    Far more women than men are entering the legal profession – but many struggle to move up its ranks. Structural reform is needed, hears Maria Shahid.