All Round table articles

  • Mid-sized law firm roundtable
    Feature

    Stuck in the middle?

    2024-10-21T15:14:00Z

    Mid-sized law firms are very far from being also-rans. Eduardo Reyes finds that they are dynamic actors, finding ways to innovate and endure by utilising service, structure, technology – and even a sense of mission.

  • James Vernor-Miles, Victoria Hodges and Andrew Weir
    Feature

    Roundtable: Sale agreed?

    2024-10-16T10:21:00Z

    Modern conveyancing has ‘specialisms within itself’, reflecting the complexity of a process that is too often assumed to be simple or capable of being ‘standardised’. Eduardo Reyes reports from the latest Gazette roundtable discussion.

  • Stuart Whittle, Peter Harris, Rowena Rix, Abbas Khan and Tania Brodie-Clarke
    Feature

    Roundtable: Making AI work for law

    2024-09-17T15:40:00Z

    The legal sector’s engagement with the staggering potential of artificial intelligence has surprised long-time observers of this traditionally cautious profession. Joanna Goodman reports from the Gazette’s latest roundtable discussion.

  • r-l- Rebekah Sutcliffe, Nusrat Siddique, William Miles, Tracy Lacey-Smith and Stanley Carrodus
    Feature

    Gen Z: Coming through

    2024-06-07T11:01:00Z

    Stereotypes abound in any discussion about ‘Gen Z’. Many are unfair, but it is clear that the professional and life priorities of this generation are different from those who came before. Can the legal profession adapt? Eduardo Reyes reports from the latest Gazette roundtable.

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    Feature

    Double indemnity

    8 March 2024

    Greater choice is driving a more competitive PII renewal round. Eduardo Reyes reports from the latest Gazette roundtable discussion.

  • Middle-sized-firms-roundtable
    Feature

    Taking the middle ground

    2 February 2024

    Law firms operating in the mid-market convene to discuss their most urgent challenges.

  • Private client roundtable
    Feature

    Life support

    2023-11-27T16:08:00Z

    As a practice area, private client is both protected from ‘AI’ and struggling with government automation of life-critical processes. Eduardo Reyes reports.

  • Alicia Virtue and Dia Thanki
    Feature

    Tech City

    2023-10-31T15:56:00Z

    Technology, science, finance and law have transformed Cambridge’s economy and its legal community. But in a rapidly polarising city, can they also help those left behind? Joanna Goodman reports.

  • Client due diligence roundtable
    Feature

    Take on me: Client due diligence roundtable

    2023-06-23T10:56:00Z

    How far does the right to representation extend? Concerns over reputation, ethics, morality and regulation are giving firms more reason than ever to turn away or shed clients. 

  • Geopolitical-risk-roundtable-group
    Feature

    Geopolitical risk: The world turning

    2023-06-16T00:01:00Z

    Most of the global risks businesses face are not new, but their confluence should shape corporate conduct and the legal advice that supports it. 

  • PI clin neg RT 2
    Feature

    Counting the costs

    28 April 2023

    Legislation that made sweeping cuts to civil legal aid and ushered in the controversial Jackson reforms came into force a decade ago, with far-reaching consequences for personal injury and medical negligence cases in particular. So where are we now? Eduardo Reyes reports from the latest Gazette roundtable.

  • Money iceblock
    Feature

    Spring thaw

    24 March 2023

    Good news at last – the professional indemnity insurance market is softening and there may be new capacity on the horizon. Eduardo Reyes reports from the latest Gazette roundtable.

  • Regulatory risk roundtable
    Feature

    The way that you do it

    17 March 2023

    What are the greatest sources of regulatory risk for law firms in the current environment? Eduardo Reyes reports from the latest Gazette roundtable discussion.

  • Nichola Westlake
    Feature

    Feeling the heat

    9 December 2022

    What is the legal profession’s role in preventing climate catastrophe? Eduardo Reyes reports from the Gazette’s latest roundtable.

  • Productivity graph
    Feature

    Time's arrows

    2 December 2022

    Changes to law firm pricing models and productivity were among the business-critical topics discussed at the Gazette’s latest roundtable. Eduardo Reyes reports.

  • Disability graphic
    Feature

    No more holding back

    25 November 2022

    From recruitment to career progression, can the legal profession turn around its poor performance on the experience of disabled solicitors? Eduardo Reyes reports.

  • Black Lives Matter protest
    Feature

    Becoming equal to the task

    4 November 2022

    The legal profession’s uneven progress on racial diversity is enduring and well documented, so what needs to change? Eduardo Reyes reports from the Gazette’s latest roundtable.

  • Sarah Conway, Maurice Turnor Gardner; and Robert Barham, Forsters
    Feature

    Home ground

    28 October 2022

    For residential conveyancers, commoditisation and unrealistic demands on their time amid a staffing crisis are high on a list of challenges. But, as Eduardo Reyes reports from the latest Gazette roundtable, there are signs that the downward pressure on fees is easing.

  • Roundtable
    Feature

    You can’t take it with you

    21 October 2022

    Covid-19 focused the minds of the wealthy on their legacies – on life, death and what exactly it is they want to leave behind. This is making for novel discussions with their lawyers, Eduardo Reyes discovers.

  • Nicholas Woolf, Claire  Larbey and Corinne Staves
    Feature

    Knowing me, knowing you

    14 October 2022

    Lawyers must negotiate a complex set of obligations when acting for clients, maintaining focus on money laundering, sanctions and ‘beneficial ownership’. Eduardo Reyes reports.