All Feature articles – Page 88
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FeatureEyes on the prize
Have you protected your firm’s intellectual property? If not, do you know you could have to change your name or logo, or put up with competitors copying your innovations? Shireen Smith provides a beginner’s guide to intellectual property for law firms.
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FeatureGift register
A risk register may seem like just another regulatory requirement, but an effective one can help you not only identify and mitigate risks, but also reduce your insurance premiums, build client loyalty, and reduce complaints. Pearl Moses explains.
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FeatureMade to measure
In your financial reporting, do you focus on fees and hours? If so, you’re missing a trick, according to Andrew Otterburn. Focusing on gross profit can help you with everything from gearing to pricing, and productivity to teamwork.
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Under pressure
Mental health problems are a growing issue for every sector, including the law, with its inherent high levels of stress. Paul Bennett looks at how managers in law firms can support their staff to mitigate mental health problems and their effects.
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Risk and Compliance Autumn Conference 2017
Janet Noble, Risk and Compliance Product Manager, reports on our recent conference.
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FeatureSeminar: Current issues in private client practice
In September, Professor Lesley King talked about the recent developments coming from judgments and statutes throughout 2017. Login to your account to listen to the audio of her seminar.
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FeatureQ&A with Melinda Giles
Melinda Giles talks about her career, her role as a member of the Private Client Section Council, and shares some good advice.
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FeatureDeciphering homemade wills
Lesley King explains how the High Court interpreted a homemade will handwritten by a testator who wasn’t grammatically fluent in English.
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FeatureThe SRA Handbook - a new and slimmer look
Pearl Moses gives us a summary of the main changes proposed by the SRA in the new, slimmed down version of the SRA Handbook.
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FeatureLibrary FAQ: Can an executor dispose of the deceased’s property before grant of probate?
The Law Society Library helps answer a query about an executor’s rights to dispose of the deceased’s property before grant of probate.
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FeatureAML Regulations 2017 - are they embedded in your firm?
Alison Matthews highlights the key changes you need to make to ensure you’re compliant.
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FeatureBest of the web - October 2017
This month’s round-up of best practice management comment, features, and news from across the web includes articles on GDPR, why law firms should collaborate with schools, achieving wellbeing in the workplace through design, adapting to workplace disruption, and insight into the top 100 straplines and positioning statements from UK law ...
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FeatureSigning off
Gary Rycroft reflects on another successful annual conference, as he plans to step down from the Section committee after 10 years of service
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FeaturePrivate Client Section annual conference 2017: Introduction
Private Client Section committee member Stuart Adams rounds up the highlights of the Section’s annual conference, held in London on 30 June, and introduces our conference special edition
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FeatureWorkshop: Elderly client issues
Delegates at the conference could choose between five workshops, run twice over the course of the day. Helen Clarke rounds up her workshop
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FeatureWorkshop: Court of Protection litigation
Delegates at the conference could choose between five workshops, run twice over the course of the day. Ruth Hughes rounds up her workshop
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FeatureWorkshop: IHT and the family home
Delegates at the conference could choose between five workshops, run twice over the course of the day. Jo Summers rounds up her workshop