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Sustainable legal education, just in time

With not-for-profit legal advice providers pressed to deliver efficiencies, one charity is driving a collaborative effort in pursuit of securing legal help where it is most needed. Matthew Smerdon, Legal Education Foundation CEO, talks exclusively to Matthew Rogers

The rise of the new age law firm

James Knight proposes calling time on the traditional partnership and focusing on creating the right platform for senior lawyers to work from

Advance decisions: Peace of mind for everyone

Heledd Wyn considers the lessons that private client practitioners can learn from the recent Court of Protection case of Paul Briggs

What is the future of civil partnerships?

It is for the law to keep up with changing relationship formats and social attitudes to reflect reality and protect those involved, writes Pippa Allsop

A rare case of defended divorce

Owens is a reminder of the unnecessary turmoil caused by fault-based divorce, writes Paul Hunt

The price of progress

Russell Conway considers how the house-buying process has changed – not always for the better

SRA Innovate: A new approach to waivers

Kirsty Peay explains the regulator's thinking behind its latest consultation on legal services innovation

MoJ: Targeted 'legal support' may help vulnerable people

Only one in ten respondents to government survey used a solicitor to resolve their dispute