Latest Legal News

Articles

Pensions update

Dilini Loku takes a look at the small yet radical changes to pension schemes following the recent Budget announcement

The route to effective cost budgeting is fraught with dangers

The layers of potential costs involved are piling up, says Simon Gibbs

Brands of time: keeping up with protection rights

Solicitors are often more concerned baout the mechanics of implementation than actual IP rights, which can be fatal when it comes to enforcement, warns Tristan Sherliker

Lawyers' technical competency levels could demand any number of formal assessments

The UK is likely to follow the US example of minimum levels of technical competency for prospective legal suppliers, and certification could even be an SRA requirement, says Damian Blackburn

Training providers are out of touch with the profession

Qualifying solicitors need appropriate, practical programmes to suit modern life, says Stuart Price

The best legal aid system in the world is slipping through our fingers

Larger firms have a duty to partner with smaller practices to save this valuable part of the legal marketplace, says Russell Conway

Bread winners

When I took over as editor at Solicitors Journal in March 2006 there were 104,543 practising solicitors. Eight years on, that number has increased by 23 per cent to 128,778, says Jean-Yves Gilg

LeO aims to do more for less

Caseload 'stable' despite last year's rule changes