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Restructuring LLPs: The ownership issues affecting your law firm's future structure

Aster Crawshaw highlights the ownership issues to consider when choosing between an LLP and limited company structure for your law firm

Whispers and secrets: 8 leadership truths for managing partners

There are eight truths that managing partners don't talk about that can influence how effective they are as leaders, says Patrick J. McKenna

Under scrutiny

The EU's fourth money laundering directive is inevitable, so advisersand trusts should stay alert, say Rosalyn Breedy and Robert McKellar

The coalface of professional negligence

Questioning your former client's honesty and disputing your own expert medical evidence will not be tolerated, says Robert Godfrey

Don't count on holding on to your rent, landlords

The uncertain status of commercial tenants holding over the end of a lease has become somewhat more predictable following a Court of Appeal ruling, say...

Do more than just belong: ensure you participate

Ignoring a request for arbitration on the basis of a jurisdictional issue may prove expensive, says Thierry De Poerck

Primary obligation: contracts first, damages second

James Harrison considers a recent Court of Appeal decision which ruled a victory for equity over contract when seeking interim injunctions