Recent Features and Opinion
Impaired vision
Unconscious bias in a business can impair good decision-making. Dr Zara Whysall looks at its impact on decisions about appointing and promoting leaders, and how law firms can minimise unconscious biases
Testing times
The Solicitors Qualifying Examination, the new route to qualifying as a solicitor, has been debated and discussed for several years now, and is due to arrive in autumn 2021. Alan East explains what you need to know
This year’s model
Kate Mahon discusses changing her business model from sole practitioner to alternative business structure. Why exactly did she do it, and what lessons can others learn from her experience?
Winning ways: last year’s Excellence Award winner speaks
Carol Mason, partner and head of the Private Client team at Morecrofts LLP in Liverpool, won last year’s Law Society Excellence in Private Client Practice Award. She explains how the win has impacted upon the team and new work, and her advice for anyone thinking of applying this year.
Coronavirus and professional indemnity insurance
Simon Thomson, policy advisor at the Law Society, looks at how coronavirus (COVID-19) is affecting professional indemnity insurance (PII) and explains our work in this area.
Young voices
There have been a number of controversial recent cases at the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal involving junior lawyers pressured into making unethical decisions. Richard Burnham looks at how law firms can create an ethical culture and support millennials in making ethical decisions
Workshop: Developing more private client work
The write approach
Winning ways
Emotional rescue
The great escape
Writing wrongs
Protect and serve
One of a kind
Shock of the new
Nothing but a number
Leading the charge
Raised voices
Cash back
Safe from harm
Charm offensive
Training your sights
Get the message
Fixed up
The hidden link
New criminal offence of failure to prevent the facilitation of tax evasion
New accreditation scheme for mental capacity representatives
Walking papers
Only connect
On the up
Blue Skype thinking
The main event
Raise your voices
A run for your money?
Cross purposes
Link in the chain
Young blood
Tomorrow’s world
Band aid
Emotional rescue
Good as gold
At your service
Opportunity knocks
Ready and willing
Better than cure
Balancing act
Connecting the dots
The leftovers
Annual Conference 2014: Maximising and getting value out of professional relationships
Conspicuous consumption
Pullan apart
Moving on
Back to basics 32: Ins and outs of trust corporations
In your gift
New year, old values
Standard questions
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