All articles by Jonathan Goldsmith – Page 5
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Opinion
Changes in citizens' rights after Brexit
Some of Brexit's legal consequences for British citizens have emerged over recent days.
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How others see us
The march of the Wagner group on Moscow and an op-ed piece in the Wall Street Journal might seem to have nothing in common.
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Three types of SLAPPs
Defining what is a strategic litigation against public participation remains one of the most elusive targets of all anti-SLAPP legislation.
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Does AI spell the end for the SRA?
This is not an end-of-lawyer article, but an end-of-regulation question.
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Disposable law, disposable lawyers
In political discourse, lawyers are to be picked up and used for one’s advantage, and then disposed of with a few jeers.
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Opinion
Enough waiting: here is some AI guidance for lawyers
Three basic rules for using generative artificial intelligence tools.
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So much good work for lawyers goes unsung
There is a natural tendency for members of professional organisations to take pleasure in running down the headquarters.
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Judges join lawyers in the bear pit
Judges are also facing heavy pressure at the intersection between law and justice.
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21st century justice: look abroad for new ideas
The Law Society's justice project aims to develop ideas to revitalise access to justice, ADR and digitalisation. We must look at how other countries achieve the same goals.
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Five legal wishes after the Coronation
Jonathan Goldsmith reflects on the Coronation Oath, coherence between symbols and the world we inhabit, and peaceful protestors.
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Lessons of the CBI scandal
Are our systems robust enough to encourage an environment where people can both work easily with each other and also call out wrong behaviour?
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When BigLaw's mask slips
'Non-negotiable expectations' of how junior lawyers should behave, shared at a US firm's training event, have created an inevitable online storm.
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Lawyers: beware AI’s hallucinations
As chatbots confidently pump out false information, professional bodies should take notice.
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Here's hoping for a golden age
We can neither look back nor forward to a time when our citizens’ access to dispute resolution and legal transactions can be held out as an ideal model.
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Cool rules for a hot debate
When there is conflict between public interest and the client’s interest, what is the correct balance? The more we argue about this topic, the better.
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Unworkable bills and the rule of law
What happens when a government passes laws which are not capable of being implemented?
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Tearing up the ‘lefty lawyers’ script
The continuing use of the ‘lefty lawyer’ label by the government looks set to become a feature of the long campaign leading to the next election.
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Can lawyers be utopians?
Sometimes we should spend time considering the eternal and beautiful, and how we should aim to construct a new version of it.
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Footing the bill for our own values
We need to wean ourselves off the notion that the government is going to continue to pay for everything forever.
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The climate crisis and the courts
Just as Gandhi was a highly controversial figure in his lifetime, so were the defendants in Wolverhampton Magistrates' Court last week.