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We can be heroes, just for one day

Go ahead and kill all the lawyers, says Felix, but then where will you be?

A popular profession?

Should the legal profession be more popular with the public than it currently is? That is the question that has been circling my mind this week since Kevin Poulter asked what makes a 'good lawyer' in last week's issue, and questioned whether a practitioner must only work for the underdog to be considered as such.

LSB to identify the cost of legal services regulation

Super-regulator aims to discover how regulation affects and impacts lawyers, law firms and the legal profession

Courts rapidly becoming lawyer-free zones

Child contact, residency and maintenance payments issues are being decided on without the input of solicitors or barristers

News in brief: week beginning 6 October 2014

Law Society Excellence Awards, Lamborghini rides and private prosecutions

The law on mental health needs clarifying, says QC

Legal scholars to consider criminal defences based on mental disorder on Mental Health Day

Hulk QC doesn't like smashing countries

SJ's John van der Luit-Drummond takes diplomatic advice from Barrister Hulk QC

SJ about town

Visualising injustice