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Update | Agriculture: easements and plant protection

Simon Blackburn discusses the latest agricultural case law with an account by ?Fiona Ashworth on the growing role of women in modern family farm businesses

Complaints | Costs in matrimonial proceedings

Michelle Garlick and Deborah Sullivan 'explain how to avoid a complaint over 'fees being escalated to LeO

Leading your firm through a change management programme

Delivering a change programme for their firms may not come naturally to lawyers but in the current climate they have little choice but to shake up their approach, says Julian Summerhayes

Trustee or deputyship order?

The Court of Protection needs to be convinced in each individual case that a personal injury trust is a more efficient way of managing a large damages award before departing from the norm of deputyship order, says Sarah Playforth

Legal ethics can't be based on anecdotes

Simplistically seeing 'unethical' lawyers as ?bad apples to be discarded shows how inadequate current tools are in measuring ethical behaviour in the ?legal services sector, says Richard Moorhead

Disenchanted lawyers: How to increase your retention of young talent

Jill King explores the reasons for discontentment and depression in ?young lawyers and how to increase their retention

What does the future hold for business technology in law firms?

By Neil Davison, Head of IT, Farrer & Co

Could consumer protection laws help defective implant claimants?

Women with no clinical need for the removal of faulty breast implants are left with no obvious remedy, unless they can be allowed to rely on the Consumer Credit Act, says Daniel Collins