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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

Mentoring leaders: Reflections on management mentoring

Susanna Norelid (mentor) and Francisco Verdún (mentee) reflect separately on what they learned from their management mentoring relationship

Managing partners are being undermined by short-term thinking

By Manju Manglani, Editor, Managing Partner

Jason Butwick: Why managing partners should be full-time fee earners

Should managing partners be full-time fee earners? Manju Manglani ?speaks to Dechert's London managing partner about how he juggles client and management work

Knowledge by itself won't help with growth and development

By Sue Beavil, Learning and Organisational Development Manager, Slater & Gordon

Jack of all trades: The ever-expanding role of compliance officers under OFR

2014 and 2015 will be the years in which outcomes-focused regulation starts to bite for law firms' compliance officers, says Jane Jarman

The criminal legal aid cuts: is it possible to survive after 20 March?

'Everyone is very angry, scared and worried about how they can service their clients'