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Troubled water: The legal risks of LinkedIn for UK law firms

Do you have a clear view of the risks of social media in the workplace? Anna Gregory examines the key issues under English law

Court rules against public funding of expert report

Law Society intervention fails to prevent 'deadlock'

Small firms turning to unrated indemnity insurers

Proportion of practices using them rises from nine per cent to 16 per cent

The problems with AFAs run deeper than resistance to change

By Julious P. Smith Jr, Chairman Emeritus, Williams Mullen

Civil legal aid faces further big cuts

Criminal clients could lose choice of solicitor

Custody calculations

Philip Rule explains why changing prisoner release dates in the court's back office cannot be considered lawful

Finding new business the biggest challenge, small firms say

One in five sole practices have declining workloads

Under wraps: enforcing concealed planning breaches after the Localism Act

One year after their introduction, provisions in the Localism Act allowing local authorities to take enforcement action against concealed planning breaches appear powerless at curbing unlawful building, says Emma Hatfield