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Welcome to our features section. Keep up to date with the latest topics and issues facing legal practitioners and consumers. From our top tips to the very latest regulatory developments and proposals, there’s something for everyone.

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Promoting and encouraging diversity within the legal profession

21.09.18

Rubina Khanom, Chartered Legal Executive and committee member of the Association of Asian Women Lawyers (AAWL), discusses the importance of diversity within the legal sector and how AAWL is committed to actively changing the legal landscape.
Embracing resilience for World Mental Health Day

21.09.18

This year's World Mental Health Day theme is based around young people and mental health in a changing world, with a particular focus on the importance of building resilience. Leah Steele, former lawyer and founder of mentoring practice, Searching for Serenity, asks: "What does resilience mean to you?"
Mental health maintenance

20.09.18

With the busyness and demands of modern life, we sometimes forget about the routine maintenance required to keep us running efficiently. Jim Ferran, a specialist in vulnerability training, explains that it's OK not to be OK.
Cybersecurity: There is hope yet

24.08.18

While the methods of cyber attacks are many and ever increasing, they all boil down to only one or a combination of the two: taking advantage of a technological weakness or exploiting human error. Although we lack experts to protect our technology and the awareness (or interest) to minimise human error, it’s worth looking at our predicament through a different lens and find the silver lining to what some call an existential threat.
How do your clients choose you?

24.08.18

Understanding what drives consumers’ decision-making when choosing a firm is important; as is being aware of consumers’ experiences while using legal services. The Legal Services Consumer Panel take an annual look at this information through their Tracker Surveys. Findings from these surveys were published this month.

Supporting disabled employees

24.08.18

In the last of a four-part series focusing on disability and legal services, Jane Hatton from Evenbreak explains why "reasons" given for not employing disabled people are not really reasons at all!

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