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Made to measure

With no standard approach to benchmarking funds, it's difficult for adviser, private client and trustee to analyse performance, says Claire Bennison

Big accounts: Tips on leading and managing key client relationships

Greg Bott considers how client partners can secure ?the commitment of their peers to develop key ?client relationships

Why your firm needs a partners' code

By Nick Jarrett-Kerr, Visiting Professor, Nottingham Law School

Criminal legal aid critics not living in 'real world', Hudson says

ProcureCo plan for small firms to bid for contracts together

Plan and prosper

Whether working on a short-term project or developing a long-term strategy, project planning is an essential skill in today's solicitors' toolkit, if anything because clients 'expect high standards and timely delivery, say Sally Calverley and Mick Underhill

Splitting hairs

Pets have unwittingly helped convict their owners but Britain's appellate courts are yet to test the reliability of 'furensic' evidence, says Richard Easton

There is another way of thinking about liberty

Applying concepts inherited from ancient Rome could allow us to take a more modern approach to deprivation of liberty safeguards, says David Hewitt

Securing greater rights for cohabitants

A new bill proposing statutory rights for cohabitants may be open to criticism but it would bring family law into the modern age, says Fiona O'Sullivan