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Estate planning update

2014 promises to be a mixed bag for estate planning practitioners, with enthusiasm over the Inheritance and Trustees' Powers Bill tempered by familiar frustrations with HMRC, say Helen Bryant and Richard McDermott

Harmony and analytics: Reshape your law firm with big data analytics

Eric Hunter discusses how predictive analytics can enable law firms ?to run more efficiently and in sync with client processes

Making the best of it

Is there a right answer about a client's interests? Solicitors may reach different conclusions, but there should be a shared thought process, says Sofia Tayton

Cyril Shroff: How he is preparing for India's legal market liberalisation

Cyril Shroff tells Manju Manglani how he is 'scaling up' Amarchand Mangaldas in preparation for India's legal market liberalisation

Overseas rules: The SRA's regulation of international practices

Tracey Calvert examines the SRA's new regulatory requirements for UK law firms with international practices

Boulders on the beach: the dramatic effect of new partnership tax rules

New partnership tax rules could place law firms using traditional structures at a disadvantage compared with their corporate competitors, says George Bull

The problem of horizontal effect is becoming tiresome

The Grand Chamber has ducked another chance to clarify the law, laments Paul Stanley QC

New year, new look

Your firm's website needs to be attractive, clear and represent how you want to be perceived, says Catherine Maxfield