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Avoiding the worst perils of the corporate drift

By Nick Jarrett-Kerr, Visiting Professor, Nottingham Law School

Risk forecast: Predict your firm's professional liability claims potential

Thomas Berman reveals how to use a weighted analysis to predict your firm's potential for professional liability claims

Spotlight | Catherine Grum

Going the distance: with a big sporting achievement to her name, Catherine Grum is racing ahead in her private wealth career too. She talks to Jennifer Palmer-Violet

Purchase of Fentons is under way, Slater & Gordon says

Formal sale agreements executed and due diligence 'substantially completed'

SGI Legal buys out Challinors' personal injury work

Deal is one of several Midlands firm's administrators are understood to be completing this week

Still a stringent test

A recent Court of Protection case may be novel but it's not as groundbreaking as some have claimed, says Fiona Scolding

Fixed costs for litigation – a step too far

James Mansell asks whether the new fixed costs regime could make it harder for defendants to detect and challenge fraudulent and exaggerated claims.

Extra interest from client accounts 'should fund advice sector'

Low Commission seeks new sources of funding from law firms