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Social leaders: How managing partners should use Twitter

Are you one of the legal twitterati? ?Ben Rigby and Fraser Allan canvass ?views on how managing partners ?can make the best use of Twitter

Getting communication structures right within your law firm

By Nick Jarrett-Kerr, Visiting Professor, Nottingham Law School

The standoff: Why the business model of big law firms is in big trouble

The business model of magic circle and white shoe firms is in big trouble, warn George Beaton and Eric Chin

Why leaders need to embrace their inner 'care bears'

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

Targeting diversity: Why female leadership quotas consistently fail

Peter Chadwick explores the challenges of quotas and targets in achieving gender-diverse leadership

In a fix: tenants, landlords and chattels

Anyone taking over a lease should take Peel as a warning and realise an insolvent tenant's business assets, says Deborah Caldwell

Duty bound: the Motor Insurance Bureau and road traffic accidents in the EU

Practitioners have been slow to exploit the potential of the motor insurance directives to fill the gap where a claimant sues an uninsured or untraced driver

Law without lawyers?

A family disputes portal in the Netherlands, open to both legal aid and fee-paying clients, could be showing us what the future of law looks like, says Jean-Yves Gilg