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Legal Compliance Association: An online community for legal compliance professionals

Risk and compliance officers are coming together at the Legal Compliance Association to learn from each other and corporates, says Leah Darbyshire

Parental guidance

When buying property for children, clients must weigh up the IHT benefits of giving funds away and reducing the size of their estate against their desire to...

How do you solve a problem like PII?

Laura Clenshaw interviews Chancery Pii

Government IHT proposals are 'frightening'

Government plans to introduce 'accelerated payment' laws that would force savers to pay inheritance tax (IHT) while they are still alive are "rather frightening", an...

Beware 'invisible' gifts

Executors must be wise to donees who have a vested interest in asserting the principle of donation mortis causa, says Mattew Evans

Partnerships – when differences of opinion become legal

It is rare to see a decision surrounding the facts of a professional services partnership dissolution, says Siobhán Buckley

Two sides of the same coin

The wage disparity within the legal profession will have serious consequences, says Russell Conway

Regions versus the City

Pippa Allsop asks why publications plug the Magic Circle dream when the work/life balance offered is so poor