All Profile articles – Page 12

  • Judge lafferty 02
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    Interview: John Lafferty

    28 September 2015

    Blindness was just one of the obstacles top judge overcame to succeed in the law, Gazette discovers.

  • Vivienne king
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    Interview: Vivienne King

    14 September 2015

    Making business decisions is ‘in the DNA’ of good in-house lawyers, Crown Estate GC tells the Gazette.

  • Jonathan Smithers
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    Interview: Jonathan Smithers

    13 July 2015

    New Law Society president outlines his priorities to Jonathan Rayner.

  • Joy merriam
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    Interview: Joy Merriam

    15 June 2015

    Prize-winning solicitor-advocate Joy Merriam on why it is important to ‘speak human’

  • Deborah Grimason
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    Interview: Deborah Grimason

    1 June 2015

    Travis Perkins GC Deborah Grimason on why in-house lawyers must strive to sit at the management table.

  • Robert Volterra
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    Interview: Robert Volterra

    11 May 2015

    Public international lawyer Robert Volterra is proud of his role in reducing global conflict.

  • Catherine Dixon
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    Interview: Catherine Dixon

    27 April 2015

    The Law Society’s new chief executive wants to hear from solicitors about how the organisation can best serve members and stay relevant in a rapidly changing legal sector.

  • Faridah Sarah
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    Profile: Faridah Sarah

    20 April 2015

    Dubai is attracting ambitious commercial litigators as it develops a global reputation for dispute resolution.

  • Dean Spielmann
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    Profile: Dean Spielmann

    16 March 2015

    Contrary to popular belief the ECtHR does not impose its own laws on British citizens, president Dean Spielmann tells the Gazette.

  • Patrick Allen
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    Profile: Patrick Allen

    16 February 2015

    Allen co-founded his eminent London firm from a Euston squat while still in his twenties. Nearly forty years on he remains an innovator.

  • David W Rivkin
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    Profile: David W Rivkin

    2 February 2015

    The new IBA president David W Rivkin on how he fights for investors and stands up to arbitrary state power.

  • Cris McCurley
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    Profile: Cris McCurley

    19 January 2015

    Cris McCurley has devoted her career to helping some of the least visible and most vulnerable in society. She talks to the Gazette.

  • Dominic Grieve
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    Profile: Dominic Grieve

    12 January 2015

    Is Dominic Grieve the best justice secretary austerity Britain never had? The Gazette went to meet the former AG in his Westminster office.

  • Keith Schilling
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    Interview: Keith Schilling

    3 November 2014

    Schilling has built a fearsome reputation in high-profile divorce, libel and privacy cases. But he says it’s not too late to reinvent his firm.

  • David Howarth
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    Interview: David Howarth

    20 October 2014

    Fundamental assumptions that underpin our approach to the law are wrong, says David Howarth, academic and former MP for Cambridge.

  • Timothy Kirkhope
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    Interview: Timothy Kirkhope

    6 October 2014

    The Conservative MEP and one-time solicitor talks about the importance of the European parliament and his dislike of the human rights ‘industry’.

  • Gavin Tyler
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    Interview: Gavin Tyler

    29 September 2014

    Pioneering managing partner Tyler personifies Cripps’ ‘core value of openness’.

  • Desmond Hudson
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    Interview: Desmond Hudson

    15 September 2014

    The now retired chief executive reflects on an eventful eight years at the Law Society.

  • Robert Hunter
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    Robert Hunter

    1 September 2014

    HSF partner Robert Hunter, who is profoundly deaf, tells Jonathan Rayner how he carved out a career as a City fraudbuster.

  • Andrew Caplen
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    Andrew Caplen

    28 July 2014

    The new Law Society president is using the challenges facing the profession as a chance to re-engage with solicitors.