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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

Jackson one year on: a brave new world of fear and uncertainty

'There seems to be a big stick approach to the way litigation is conducted and an air of unreality over what can be described as trivial'

Rough/tough justice

Catherine Burtinshaw explains why she had her boss paraded through the streets of Manchester in a comedy-striped convict's outfit

Do we need barristers' chambers anymore?

In the wake of the criminal legal aid deal between barristers and the justice secretary, Adam Makepeace asks whether it's time for solicitors to employ advocates as agents