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Intrinsic vs. extrinsic: Motivations for knowledge sharing in law firms

Do you know what drives your fee earners to share their knowledge? ?In the first of two articles, Hélène Russell reveals what her ?research uncovered

Social leaders: How managing partners should use Twitter

Are you one of the legal twitterati? ?Ben Rigby and Fraser Allan canvass ?views on how managing partners ?can make the best use of Twitter

The standoff: Why the business model of big law firms is in big trouble

The business model of magic circle and white shoe firms is in big trouble, warn George Beaton and Eric Chin

Targeting diversity: Why female leadership quotas consistently fail

Peter Chadwick explores the challenges of quotas and targets in achieving gender-diverse leadership

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