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Local government update: new legal services models

The future of local government legal services is already happening and could have a significant effect on the wider public sector, says Mark Johnson

Product development and technology transfer

Collaboration and planning ahead is the key to successfully bringing an idea to market, says Jonathan Silverman

Damages-based agreements – usable with care? Part II

Damages-based agreements if they are to be used at all require careful consideration of a large number of issues. In the second article of his three part review of the use Damage Based Agreements, DAS LawAssist consultant David Chalk outlines DBAs and recovery of costs, counterclaims, deductions from damages and counsel's fees.

Disposing of claims: final orders, please

Tomlin orders should be used sparingly, as District Judge Harold Godwin explains

HMRC's new LLP tax guidance sends a mixed message on anti-avoidance

By Louis Baker, Partner, Crowe Clark Whitehill

Compensation for damage to land: The limits of Wrotham Park

Noel Dilworth and Paris Aboro unearth a previously unidentified restriction

Adjusting your business to your clients' financial constraints

With clients hit by legal aid cuts and the ongoing economic uncertainties, family lawyers are forced to re-invent their payment models, says Sarah Turnbull

APIL calls for reform of the law on psychiatric injury

Current law, 25 years after Hillsborough, is 'old-fashioned, inflexible and unfair'