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In a fix: tenants, landlords and chattels

Anyone taking over a lease should take Peel as a warning and realise an insolvent tenant's business assets, says Deborah Caldwell

Duty bound: the Motor Insurance Bureau and road traffic accidents in the EU

Practitioners have been slow to exploit the potential of the motor insurance directives to fill the gap where a claimant sues an uninsured or untraced...

Jason Butwick: Why managing partners should be full-time fee earners

Should managing partners be full-time fee earners? Manju Manglani ?speaks to Dechert's London managing partner about how he juggles client and management work

Jack of all trades: The ever-expanding role of compliance officers under OFR

2014 and 2015 will be the years in which outcomes-focused regulation starts to bite for law firms' compliance officers, says Jane Jarman

What does your client need and perceive as good value?

Pricing in the legal profession is undergoing a revolution and has a big impact on profitability, says Kim Tasso

Pricing dissonance: Big law firms' international pricing strategy dilemma

Clients are happily exploiting the endemic pricing inconsistencies within large law firms, warns Richard Burcher

Loud and clear: are litigators getting the message a year after Jackson?

Judges saying they will implement the new civil litigation rules robustly doesn't equip litigators with readily usable guidance, says Eleanor Kilner as she assesses the...

Crossing the line: neighbour property disputes

Litigators need to propound to their clients the benefits of mediation in property disputes to cut down on the expensive and time-consuming battles through the...