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Budget 2012

Stephen Barratt reflects on what the budget will mean for private clients

Editor's letter: What lies beneath

Firms that regularly tolerate minor infractions normalise bad behaviour, warns Manju Manglani

Recognise the symptoms of financial sickness before it's too late

By Jon Miller, Director, Evolve Legal

Knowledge democracy: Developing a social media-based intranet

Gerard Bredenoord and Ben Rigby discuss how Linklaters developed ?a social media-based solution to its intranet needs

Chameleon partners: How to help partners to get better at business development

Meirion Jones discusses the four skills that BD professionals need to nudge partners into effective client development behaviours

Firm fracture or break-up? Opportunity awaits!

By Thomas Berman, Principal, Berman & Associates

Appeal judges reduce award in first civil partnership finance dispute

Lord Justice Thorpe has allowed the appeal by banker Peter Lawrence seeking a reduction in the award made to his former partner actor Donald Gallagher...

Opening doors

Could greater use of private trusts help unlock the Court of Protection? Stephen Ashcroft asks whether it ?is time for a new approach