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Active or passive?

Isolating the best investment strategy has never been a case of choosing one over the other as a combination of both is sometimes required

Flailing firms: How mid-market law firms can return from the brink of failure

Many mid-market law firms in the UK are failing to make critical changes that could prevent business failure, warn Viv Williams and Samantha Palmer

Squeezed middle: What law firms can learn from accountancy firms

Steve Billot reflects on what law firms in the squeezed mid-market can learn from the consolidation of the accountancy sector

A different kind of bequest

Helen Freely and Katie Underhill consider the wealth preservation structures available to clients who need to bequeath assets to a vulnerable individual

Funke Abimbola: How I select law firms to advise Roche Products (UK)

The ability to deliver pragmatic, commercial and directive advice is key to law firms winning high-value legal work from Roche Products UK, Funke Abimbola tells...

Maverick partners: Tactics for dealing with difficult colleagues

Adrian Crawford considers the costs and benefits of maverick partners, how to change their behaviours and the steps to remove them from your law firm

Safe harbour decision rocks US tech giants

Matthew Rogers considers the impact of policy activist Max Schrems's data protection challenge against Facebook

Can an adjudicator consider pre-contract negotiations?

Chris Holwell considers the exclusionary rule on the interpretation of contracts and whether there are any circumstances in which an adjudicator can go around it