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Workplace accommodations for neurodivergent lawyers: what firms need to know

Dr Simon Le Clerc, Medical Director at HealthCare In Mind, explores whether law firms and the legal industry lagging behind in regard to the acceptance of neurodiversity in the workplace

Will tariffs Trump transactions?

Mikhail Vishnyakov and Gin Kynigos from Cooke, Young & Keidan LLP share their thoughts on the legal issues and contractual uncertainty facing businesses in the wake of the escalating imposition of tariffs and retaliatory tariffs

Differences between evidence systems and their impact on litigation strategy

Hugo Keulers, a Partner at Lydian, shares his thoughts on the different rules on evidence taking in regard to technical matters between Anglo-Saxon and continental legal systems

Misunderstanding the rule of law

Raymond Wacks shares his concerns regarding the expansion of the rule of law to include the protection of human rights

SJ Interview: Harriet Wistrich

For the May 2025 volume, Harriet Wistrich speaks to the Solicitors Journal about her book 'Sister in Law: Fighting for Justice in a System Designed by Men', which has been nominated for the 2025 Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction

Will the new Cyber Monitoring Centre’s categorisation scale really help?

Colin Hayes from Penningtons Manches Cooper shares his thoughts on whether the new cyber incident categorisation scale from the Cyber Monitoring Centre is likely to meet expectations

Joint Enterprise and tackling racial bias

Eithne Quinn, a Professor of Socio-Legal Studies at The University of Manchester, shares her thoughts on racial bias and injustice concerns related to the application of Joint Enterprise secondary liability rules and what solicitors can do to help build a fairer justice system

Redefining the green belt: the rise of grey belt planning

Welcomed by developers but criticised by the House of Lords Select Committee, the Labour government’s new grey belt policy has divided opinion. Partner at Weightmans, John Gregory examines what the policy means in practice, and how it’s faring so far