All Features articles – Page 39
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Litigation funding: calling for backup
The costs of commercial litigation are tougher to finance post-Jackson. Alternative financing models are coming to the market, but will they succeed in plugging the funding gap?
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Judicial diversity: minority interest
It is eight years since judicial selection was overhauled, but improving diversity is turning out to be a difficult and slow process.
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Roundtable: conveyancing
The Gazette’s latest roundtable discussion, on risk management in conveyancing.
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Romania: after the party
Romania continues to grapple with the malign legacy of Nicolae Ceausescu, but its legal sector is thriving.
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Legal education: big learning curve
Legal educators are being forced to adapt to a rapidly changing market which demands a skills revolution.
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Practice advice – lines of enquiry
The Law Society’s Practice Advice Service answers tens of thousands of questions each year. No two calls are the same.
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Local government: problem shared
Unprecedented spending cuts have placed the onus on local government lawyers to ensure they have a viable future.
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How To: manage documents
Electronic storage and document management brings huge benefits for law firms, but it also carries significant risks.
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Roundtable: solicitor-advocates
The Gazette’s latest roundtable looks at changing attitudes towards solicitor-advocates.
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Malaysia: open for business?
Malaysia is liberalising its legal market, but foreign firms are still not sure what to expect.
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Lawyers in the line of fire
Lawyers across the globe are being murdered, unlawfully detained or assaulted for going about their work of representing clients.
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Medical negligence lawyers face gloomy prognosis
Changes to civil litigation funding and costs are beginning to bite in the clinical negligence sector.
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How To: handle OFR in-house
In-house lawyers seeking to comply with outcomes-focused regulation are dealing with a regime that is ‘dynamic’ and constantly evolving.
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Expert witnesses: pain and gain
The Gazette looks at the greatly altered landscape in which expert witnesses are now expected to operate.
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How To: run a small firm
How does the small but perfectly formed legal practice manage its business?
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Kazakhstan is a magnet for investors but its legal system is a work in progress
Kazakhstan is enjoying an economic boom but politics plays a big part as lawyers seek to carve out practices.
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How To: reduce staff pay
Cutting pay could help your law firm remain sustainable, but it has to be done carefully and with extreme sensitivity.
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Education and training: learning curve
The profession’s regulators face complex and overlapping challenges in creating a legal education system which shifts the focus from the ‘journey’ to the point of qualification.
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Offshore: reasons to be cheerful
Offshore financial centres have suffered a reputational bruising and tougher regulation in the aftermath of the 2008 crash. But many law firms have found ways to survive and thrive.