Features

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.

Courting failure

30.10.17

Helping your client is your number one priority but are you doing them justice? Principle 1 of the Code of Conduct (Code) is the Big Brother that watches over you when you act for your client. It can help you explain to your clients where you have to draw the line.

Are you CMA smart?

28.10.17

Take our quiz to find out!

Be a lawyer, not a liar

25.09.17

Competing priorities, clients and managerial requests can quickly pile up. Take care not to open the door to risk. What do you do if it all goes wrong?

Avoiding complaints

25.09.17

Few people enjoy a complaint being made about their work. Here are seven learning points from our First-Tier Complaints Handling Survey 2017 to help you avoid complaints or deal successfully with them when they occur.

You and the new money laundering guidance

24.09.17

The new Money Laundering Regulations 2017 came into force on 26 June 2017 and new sector guidance has now been published. The regulations impact us all. David Pope reports.

All Hale legal diversity!

23.09.17

Brenda Hale will be sworn in as the first female president of the UK Supreme Court on 2 October. Jill Black will become the second female Justice of the Supreme Court on the same date. These appointments represent significant steps forward for diversity within the legal sector. But there’s still some way to go...

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