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Editor's blog | Unbundling liability

As a term, unbundling has been lurking in lawyers lexicon for years but it's now making its way to the legal services market

Commission backs conservation covenants to protect wildlife and heritage

Existing methods 'complex and costly' and lead to 'piecemeal approach'

Peers pass three motions of regret over legal aid cuts

Votes highlight impact on disabled people and domestic violence victims

A la carte disclosure: options for litigators on the new Jackson menu

With their new list approach, updated civil procedures rules should help litigators keeping a tighter grip on disclosure costs, but which options will be the most popular, ask Costa Kypre and Mark Chesher

Updating the constitution

Alan Cockerill reviews the new importance vested in a companys articles following the implementation of the Companies Act 2006

Cost assessment in transition

With the Jackson reforms unravelling from this week, Simon Gibbs runs through some of the transitional provisions aimed at getting us from here, to there

Unleashed | The search for employment

Russell Conway shares his reflections on the questionable calibre of contemporary aspiring lawyers

It's family law, but not how we knew it

Should law firms be responsible for means testing clients to establish what they can afford to pay for legal advice? Toby Hales weighs up the cost of cuts to publicly funded family law