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Duty bound: the Motor Insurance Bureau and road traffic accidents in the EU

Practitioners have been slow to exploit the potential of the motor insurance directives to fill the gap where a claimant sues an uninsured or untraced driver

Jason Butwick: Why managing partners should be full-time fee earners

Should managing partners be full-time fee earners? Manju Manglani ?speaks to Dechert's London managing partner about how he juggles client and management work

Jack of all trades: The ever-expanding role of compliance officers under OFR

2014 and 2015 will be the years in which outcomes-focused regulation starts to bite for law firms' compliance officers, says Jane Jarman

What does your client need and perceive as good value?

Pricing in the legal profession is undergoing a revolution and has a big impact on profitability, says Kim Tasso

Pricing dissonance: Big law firms' international pricing strategy dilemma

Clients are happily exploiting the endemic pricing inconsistencies within large law firms, warns Richard Burcher

Loud and clear: are litigators getting the message a year after Jackson?

Judges saying they will implement the new civil litigation rules robustly doesn't equip litigators with readily usable guidance, says Eleanor Kilner as she assesses the position post-Mitchell

Crossing the line: neighbour property disputes

Litigators need to propound to their clients the benefits of mediation in property disputes to cut down on the expensive and time-consuming battles through the courts, say Brie Stevens-Hoare QC and Rupert Cohen

Change of status: Manage newly-classified LLP salaried members

Louis Baker and Susan Ball consider the practical steps to take if an LLP member will be classed by HMRC as a salaried member from 6 April 2014