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31 Jul 2014

Sean Connolly: How global client teams can improve firmwide revenues

Sean Connolly reveals to Manju Manglani how Mayer Brown's global client-team programme helped it to beat pre-crisis revenues and profits

31 Jul 2014

Law Society labels HMRC's debt recovery plans 'regressive and draconian'

Mistakes will 'inevitably' occur in a system where the state has a 'preferential position' and no judicial supervision

31 Jul 2014

Exclusive: Large UK law firms 'more effective' at social media than US counterparts

DLA Piper, Allen & Overy and Clifford Chance rank highest overall in the UK Social Law Firm Index

31 Jul 2014

The JLD on the minimum wage abolition: grave, exploitative and exclusive

Tamasin Dorosti, member on the Junior Lawyers Division Executive Committee, talks to Young Lawyer about the harmful effects of abolishing an industry minimum wage and how you can express your opinion

31 Jul 2014

Court refers just 2 per cent of parties to mediation

Family lawyers should be 'incentivised' by government to refer clients to mediation

30 Jul 2014

Public support for cuts to legal aid declines on its 65th anniversary

New president of the Law Society calls cuts "a false economy" while some solicitors ask what there is to celebrate

30 Jul 2014

Four-week suspended sentence for former husband who failed to pay divorce settlement

High Court finds Michael Prest had wilfully refused or neglected to pay maintenance

30 Jul 2014

SJ about town

Meeting the new Law Society president and remembering the fallen