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Budget 2020 – a relief for entrepreneurs?

Matthew Duncan considers the changes announced to entrepreneurs' relief and suggests a targeted approach to help start-ups

Changing the rules

The SRA's continuing competence regime marked a big change from the CPD rules. Rachel Rothwell examines what this meant for solicitors and whether further change is afoot 

Twitter: 11 years on

Inksters was the first law firm in Scotland to start tweeting. With contributions from today's tweeters, Brian Inkster looks at how firms and individual lawyers can best use the platform

Hiding in plain sight

Neurodivergent lawyers face unique challenges but are a gift to the profession – if only they were more visible. Nicola Laver reports

Stronger together

Professor Andrew Francis looks to a future where law schools work closely with firms in developing the next generation of lawyers

The rainmakers

Firms must deploy compliance strategies and tools to manage rainmaker colleagues, as Tracey Calvert explains

Influencing the influencers

Individual's use of social media in the workplace raises significant issues for firms, says Gabriel Habel

Temporary relief

Brexit could yet be treated as an event frustrating a lease, as Richard Vann Jones explains