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Advising the 'vulnerable client

Elizabeth Eyre sets out some of the compliance considerations for private client lawyers and discusses how the risks can be recognised and, as far as possible, managed

The power of the visual

Marco D'Angelo discusses the role of visual imagery in drawing the attention of busy web browsers, communicating complex and nuanced messages, and awakening an emotional response - and how law firms can use it to their advantage in their marketing communications

The Archers and the law on domestic abuse

Helen Greenfield considers how new legislation criminisalising controlling or coercive behaviour in a family relationship could have applied to a recent storyline on the Radio 4 soap

Financial management, risk, compliance, and success

Eric Fletcher discusses the relationship between these key factors and their importance in managing and coaching staff and creating a framework for progress

Embracing predictive 'coding for e-disclosure

Gavin Foggo and Shella Khan discuss two recent cases in which the High Court has stood firm on the use of this technology, and advise on how it can be implemented by firms

Going to extremes

If proposed counter-extremism measures are too liberally applied, they will fundamentally undermine the very freedoms that the government hopes to protect, writes Charles Streeten

A claimant 'solicitor's perspective 'on fundamental dishonesty

Following the recent appeal in Nesham, defendant insurers will have to think again before making allegations of fundamental dishonesty against claimants, writes Ghazala Bashey

EMI Group: 'An unwelcome decision

Claudia Orpin and Charlotte Ross consider the impact of the EMI Group case on assignment to a guarantor and discuss two unopposed lease renewal cases