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Estate agents' grip on conveyancing market forces In-Deed sell-off

Very low margins and price sensitivity of online conveyancing push business into selling off its legal practice and exiting the legal market

Service update

Managing finances to counselling to dog walking. Richard Joynt and Ian Slack clarify the range of family office services on offer

Encouraging investment

Editor's blog | Power failure

Comparison websites would help improve consumer shopping around, but nothing beats word of mouth says Jean-Yves Gilg

The impossible rise of damages-based agreements

Expectations that costs budgeting will encourage damages-based agreements are unrealistic, says Kerry Underwood

Unbundling unbundled: is our approach to family legal services finally changing?

Cuts to legal aid are hitting family practitioners' client base like never before. As the Law Society pub lishes a practice note on unbundling, we try to demystify a term mired in misunderstanding. Face-to-face advice, transparent costing and clearly-defined services - unbundling is supposed to be the simple way, so why is it so confusing?

Behind bars | The not so distant future

Jeannie Mackie pays a visit to the privatised courts of the government's imagination

Charities | Changing legal structure

Marion Shanley looks at the various legal structures for charities and social enterprises, and situations where an organisation could make a change