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Hedging bets: How to align compensation with firm strategy

Tom Berman discusses how to ensure your lawyer compensation scheme supports ?your firm's long-term priorities

Workshop: Private client: LPAs

With a review of the LPA system underway, Stewart Stretton-Hill tackles 'how to avoid common stumbling blocks when drafting an LPA

Behind bars | Waiving client confidentiality

The arrest of Ian Brady's mental health advocate for alledgedly failing to pass on 'information about the location of a victim's corpse has important lessons...

Litigation focus | Broader funding opportunities: introducing damages-based agreements

Graham Huntley discusses the potential impact of damages-based agreements as we approach their roll out across all types of civil litigation

Litigation focus | Investment culture: The future of third-party funding

Venture capitalists remain interested in high-value litigation but is there an ?emerging market for funding smaller cases? Nick Rowles-Davies reports

Litigation focus | Keeping it in proportion: Accepting the repercussions of the new costs regime

The new costs regime may not appeal to everyone but, as Iain Stark explains, it's on its way and for clients, it can't come soon...

Litigation focus | Russian backlash: foreign nationals and English courts' jurisdiction

Will Russian parties be forced home to resolve their legal disputes, ask David Allen, Philippa Charles and ?Julie Bowring

Make or buy: How to choose a KM system for your firm

Stephanie Barnes explores the key considerations in choosing between a custom and off-the-shelf KM system