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Splitting profits: Review your partner profit-sharing arrangements

Benjamin Viney explores why law firms are reviewing their partner profit-sharing arrangements, why it can be so hard to do and how to go about...

Privatising courts 'could save £1bn'

Grayling said to have 'strongly backed' plan

Without reason

Editor's blog | The buck stops with you

Money laundering responsibility has resulted in regulatory requirements, but solicitors don't make it easy on themselves You can question the way in which solicitors' money...

Sharpening value and standing out

In a post-RDR world, wealth managers must define their role and actively market what they do best to the right client. ?What should they do...

No guarantees

Gita Chakravarty asks if a bank's refusal to provide a 'loan facility without a personal guarantee amounts to 'illegitimate commercial pressure

ABS diary | Optimism in a post-Jackson climate

Russell Jinks is somehow optimistic that the Jackson reforms could be a genuine business opportunity for 'small local firms

Drawing lines in the farmland

Landlords and tenants come to blows, farms diversify and ownership changes. Setting boundaries in rental agreements will help during the fallout, says Jonathon Dixon