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The challenges of leadership are different to the challenges of management

By Andrew Hedley, Andrew Hedley Consulting  

The law: Taking centre stage in Brexit

If law students (and qualified solicitors) struggle with the operation and implementation of European laws, how will the man on the Clapham omnibus fare, asks Kevin Poulter

Law Society: Firms should pay work experience students a minimum wage

JLD chair: In some cases, candidates we heard from appear to have been taken advantage of

SRA chief: 'Outdated' Law Society is a trade union that needs reform

Solicitors setting their own standards allows them to 'mark their own homework', says Paul Philip

Bar Council: McKenzie friends should not be allowed to charge for legal services

Ban on fee-charging McKenzie friends to protect 'vulnerable litigants' from unregulated individuals proposed

First reported case on the shorter trials scheme

Questions have been answered on whether cases can be transferred into the STS and whether this case fell within the class of cases appropriate for the STS, writes Ed Crosse

New guidance seeks to prevent local authority misuse of care system

Charity aims to address confusion over heavily criticised section 20 powers

Barrister gender and ethnicity under regulator's spotlight

BSB complaints-handling process not discriminatory but might favour women, report finds