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Focus on rebuilding loyalty or face attrition when the market changes

By Julious P. Smith Jr, Chairman Emeritus, Williams Mullen

Dissecting processes: How to create a legal process improvement programme

Kim R. Craig and Andrew M. Baker of Seyfarth Shaw share their insights on how to kick start a legal process improvement programme

Unfair advantage

Martin Oliver considers the difficulty with alleging undue influence in probate disputes

Managing partner: why do the job?

By Michael Shaw, Managing Partner, Cobbetts

Solicitor who asked for payments on account had not terminated retainer

A family solicitor who would only continue to act subject to his client making interim fee payments had merely suspended the retainer, not terminated it,...

Refocusing priorities: How to get a clear picture of your firm's market position

Consultant Tony Williams explores how managing partners can reorganise their firms to increase efficiencies

Lapdancer was employee, EAT rules

A lapdancer at Stringfellows was an employee and entitled to claim unfair dismissal, the Employment Appeal Tribunal has ruled.

PACE Update: arrests, evidence, confession

Jill Lorimer and Caroline Day consider cases concerning grounds for arrest, confession evidence and challenges to the validity of search warrants