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Legal aid cuts 'will drive out the best', Lord Neuberger warns

'Less legal aid means more unrepresented litigants and worse lawyers'

Property Focus | The future of conveyancing: customer service is key

Paul Albone examines the current state of the UK property market and how conveyancing has changed, and asks what can we expect from the next...

Property Focus | Stamp Duty Land Tax savings schemes and the tribunals

Anthony Hennessy examines Stamp Duty Land Tax savings schemes and the tribunals

Prest: the precedent

The Supreme Court's judgment may be rare but it has implications for family, corporate and private client lawyers. Lesley Smythe hopes it's not a pyrrhic...

'This isn't routine litigation. It's exceptional – and thank goodness it is'

Yasmin Prest transferred her case - and 26 lever arch files - to Farrer & Co in October 2010. Jennifer Palmer-Violet talks to partner Jeremy...

Look forward and back

There are even more reasons now to ensure that structured inheritance tax planning is reviewed both when it has been put in place in the...

60-second interview: Sheree Green

Jennifer Palmer-Violet talks to Sheree Green of Anthony Collins Solicitors, who presented a session on elderly client at SJ Live in May

Killer jailed for 'calculated execution' of solicitor

Michael Chudley will not be released unless he lives to the age of 90