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Proficiency race: Accelerate junior lawyer effectiveness on a budget

Stephanie Abbott considers how to ?speed up junior lawyer development ?under continued cost pressure

Tomorrow's talent: Win the loyalty of millennial lawyers to your firm

Paula McMullan discusses how to nurture junior talent that buy into and contribute to your law firm's future

In name and in fact: measuring the extent of partners' responsibilities

At a time when regulators and insurers are hardening their stance, prospective partners need to understand what they are letting themselves in for, says Susanna...

Scoping the risk of cloud computing

A report last November by the Solicitors Regulation Authority specifically addressing compliance issues in relation to cloud computing is evidence of how significant this technology...

What happened to the safeguarding power of entry?

The government has decided not to create a new power of entry to protect adults who are at risk of abuse or neglect. Its reasons...

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...

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