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Work smarter, not harder: tips to increase lawyer productivity
Hard work is the hallmark of success. Or is it? Lawyers and other legal professionals spend much of their time…
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Impress at training contract interviews: what skills do you have that make you well-suited to this career?
We teamed up with Herbert Smith Freehills to demonstrate how candidates should tackle difficult questions in interviews - and what they should avoid. In part 2, we answer 'what skills do you have that make you well-suited to this career?
We teamed up with Herbert Smith Freehills to demonstrate how candidates should tackle difficult questions in interviews - and what they should avoid. In part 1, we answer 'why do you want to work for an international law firm?'
Far too many people remain deprived of their full legal rights or otherwise face too much stress when in contact with the legal system and applying the law generally. How can new technologies improve access to justice? Can new apps and platforms bring the underrepresented and the unrepresented into the legal system?
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What motivates today’s buyers of legal services? How are law firms positioning themselves to take advantage of the opportunities coming their way? We partnered with FTI Consulting to deliver an in-depth report on the relationship between buy-side and sell-side in legal, and found some surprising results.
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The technology-driven changes in the legal industry have spawned a fascinating network of organisations devoted to legal innovation in all its various forms. If legal practitioners are looking for greater understanding of what’s going on at the cutting edge of legal technology, or better yet, want to participate by creating or adopting new technologies for the law, there is no shortage of places to go to feed that interest.
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Polly Toynbee, solicitor Dan Neidle, David Lammy MP and barrister Robert Palmer debate broken election promises - a matter for parliament or the courts?
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A strong CV and a confident manner might get you through the door but it’s commercial awareness that hiring partners are really looking for – it could land you your dream training contract. What is it and how do you get it?
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Thomson Reuters surveyed 249 respondents in 5 continents to discover the trends, opportunities and challenges in cross-border transactions. Where are the pain points, and how can you avoid them?
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