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Bar Focus | Known unknowns: the impact of litigants in person

We know to expect a rise in the number of self-represented litigants and stricter adherence to processes post-LASPO but the long-term impacts can only be guessed at. Lucy Reed reports

Bar Focus | Putting differences aside

There is a mutual need for lawyers from each of the professions to work together in these times of unprecedented change, says Maura McGowan QC

Bar Focus | How to adapt and thrive

The Bar is adapting to the new-look legal services sector, says Emma Waddingham. And this is how its done, as a chambers or a law firm

Bar Focus | Public facing: is direct access a threat?

The new rules allowing direct public access to barristers, without instructing a solicitor, does not threaten solicitors position in the market, argues Hannah Kinch

BPP offers free courses for LPC graduates who fail to find jobs

Offer 'reflects our confidence in the employability of our LPC graduates'

Welsh legal brand to feature on The Apprentice

Former slate entrepreneur to ask Lord Sugar to invest £250,000 in Dynamo Legal

Northern delights | The kids aren't alright

Ten years on from joining his local Trainee Solicitors Group, Kevin Poulter believes supporting young lawyers is more important than ever

Businesses warn against TUPE test change

Abolition 'likely to result in renewed uncertainty'