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Freelance solicitors: walking in the middle lane of the motorway?

The new 'freelance' solicitor model looks a lot like the current consultant status – except it has none of the advantages for anyone, says Paul Bennett

Call on SRA to regulate work experience element of SQE

Failure to set minimum salary could lead to trainees being exploited, say junior lawyers

Speedboat or oil tanker: can your personal injury department survive?

With personal injury reforms unstoppably extending across the whole sector, options are getting thinner for law firms, suggests Jonathan Wheeler

Revising legal services regulation: threat or promise?

Whether there ought to be a single independent legal regulator or just greater transparency requirements on anybody providing legal advice, lawyers should take an interest in how their sector should be regulated, says Emma Walker

Unhappy state of affairs: the impact of family court closures

The government should make the best of the revised timescale for the court reform project to learn from recent mistakes, urges Pippa Allsop

In the public interest? The SDT's burdensome move to a civil standard of proof

Wrangling over the change to the civil standard of proof has been a distraction from addressing more pressing issues, argues Jean-Yves Gilg

Gauke moots increasing judicial retirement age

Justice secretary David Gauke has hinted that he is in favour of proposals to increase the judicial retirement age from 70 to 72.

Form with function: using a consistent 'key features' document

A new form designed and endorsed by property specialist bodies is already addressing concerns around leasehold and supporting a move to managed freehold, says Beth Rudolf