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Across the board: Gender diversity in law firm management teams

Jo Worby considers whether law firms need mandatory quotas to increase female representation in their senior management teams

Green to keep magistrates' sentencing powers 'under review'

Ministers want to know why cases 'escalated' to Crown Court

Workshop: Effective exclusion in B2B contracts

Drawing up a 'watertight' contract is nearly impossible, especially when it comes to exclusion clauses. Clients need to be made aware of the risks and...

Update | Pensions: asset-backed funding arrangements

Jennie Kreser and 'Dilini Loku consider 'the rocketing popularity of asset-backed funding arrangements and their potential future downfall

Unleashed | Taking a back seat

After 15 years of thrashing out policy and legislation, Russell Conway is hanging up his committee hat.?Now is the time for new blood

Conservation covenants 'must not remove rights of access'

Proposed new rules based on agreements with willing landowners

End of the phoney war: budgetary control 'for civil costs

Following April's implementation of budgetary control for civil costs in the multi-track, ?Andy Ellis examines the implications for solicitors.

By the way | A thorny issue

Between payment-dodging clients, wary claimants and silence from opposing solicitors, Catherine Burtinshaw is struggling to make her caseload behave