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Operating with a global mindset involves auditing local practices and values

By Greg Bott, Head of the Client Development Centre, Addleshaw Goddard  

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Shining a light across the Atlantic with the Colombian Caravana UK Lawyers Group

Special report: SJ Live 2014

Solicitors Journal's flagship event draws crowds of solicitors hungry for knowledge and expert opinion. The SJ team brings you the highlights

Crossed wires: untangling applications for security for costs

The judgment in Re Fi Call shows that the courts are reluctant to grant security for costs to one party for fear of unfairly disadvantaging the other, says Nicole Finlayson

Through the looking glass: planning a technology-driven firm

Long-term strategy and investment is key to staying up to date with the changing legal marketplace and service delivery, says Damian Blackburn

Supervisors must live up to their title and accept responsibility

Even if you are honest, a dishonest partner or employee could sink your career and ruin your practice, says John Gould

Costs budgets are your business, not for judges to micromanage

Litigators are waiting anxiously for the outcome of the hourly rates review, but the judiciary is not interested in such arguments, says James Barrett

SRA announces appointment of new chair

Board will continue to focus on the 'programme of modernisation and liberalisation'