All Feature articles – Page 36
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FeatureManual updates: HMRC Trust Registration Service Manual
Lesley King comments on HMRCs latest updates to the Trust Registration Manual and highlights the areas particularly relevant for private client practitioners and where the new updates fall short.
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FeatureCase update - costs
Nigel West considers a recent case in the Competition and Markets Authority that may have an impact on costs in disciplinary matters.
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FeatureBook review—Client Care in Conveyancing
Rebecca Atkinson, Director of Risk at Howard Kennedy LLP, reviews the latest edition of Client Care in Conveyancing by Priscilla Sinder.
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FeatureTrusted professionals: Re Townsend [2022] EWCA Civ 880
Roman Kubiak analyses a recent case where a trustee charged a monthly fee for her services over a 12-year period, leading the Court of Appeal to confirm that non-trust professionals can only be remunerated for trust administration work undertaken within the course of their specific profession
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FeatureA collaborative affair
Kirsten Buck examines whether traditional approaches to management are on their way out, and how collaborative alternatives could work for firms
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FeatureFeedback loop
Amanda Croxon explains why you need to embrace online reviews as a way of enhancing your reputation, how you should handle responding to negative feedback, and what to do with fake reviews
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FeatureUnder the microscope
Victoria Moffatt investigates how current affairs have brought law firms under scrutiny, and what firms can do to manage reputation when they have ‘unpopular’ clients
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FeatureHear me out
Eleanor Shaw reflects on how the legal sector can be more accessible for deaf and disabled job applicants
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FeatureTaking the lead
Thom Dennis explores what it means to be a great business leader in an increasingly uncertain world
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FeatureLay of the land
Oktra share some examples of how firms are maximising their office space for hybrid and flexible working
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FeatureReality check
Andre Thomas examines how firms can address recruitment challenges during ‘the great resignation’
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FeatureKey to success
David Hunter discusses how Bates Wells has incorporated environmental, social and governance principles into how it’s doing business
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FeatureBlazing the trail
Dan Gilbert speaks to Gary Gallen, founder and CEO of Rradar, about his career as a litigator and his journey to founding a highly successful legal business
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FeatureA matter of time
Mila Trezza gives her tips for managing your time effectively when you have competing priorities and a heavy workload
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FeatureGo with the flow
Barry Wilkinson gives his tips on how firms can effectively manage their cashflow
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FeatureSign of the times
Dana Denis-Smith advises on how law firms can rise to meet the new challenges presented by client expectations regarding diversity and the environment
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FeatureOur survey says
Andy Harris shares some of the key findings from the 2022 Law Management Section Financial Benchmarking Survey, and gives his thoughts on challenges for firms to focus on, this year and beyond
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FeatureWinds of change
Rebecca Atkinson outlines some recent regulatory changes that firm leaders should be getting to grips with in 2022
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FeatureMaking legal information accessible – why and how? (OnDemand)
Watch this webinar to learn how to provide accessible information, to break down barriers faced by disabled people.
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FeatureHeld to account
Jayne Willetts considers how the introduction of flexibility in the regulator’s approach to the SRA Accounts Rules is working in terms of breaches