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Minimum trainee salary to improve diversity in solicitor profession

The Law Society believes trainee remuneration rates should be based on living wage and average yearly LPC repayment

CILEx: Legal professional privilege under threat from draft 'Snooper's Charter'

Communications between a lawyer and their client should have full protection

Matching legal service providers and consumers

Matthew Briggs considers what the legal sector can learn from black cabs, holiday homes, and online dating services 

How do Ilott and King affect the current law?

Richard McDermott and Adam Carvalho consider the fallout from two significant recent cases and review the law on challenges to wills and 'deathbed gifts'

Change in the 'private rented sector

New legislation is a welcome attempt to deal with problems that have been affecting the private rented sector for years, but does it go far enough, asks Tessa Shepperson

Setting aside 'unconscionable bargains

A recent case has provided guidance on whether legal advice is the ultimate shield in circumstances where a property sale is challenged, writes Morayo Fagborun Bennett

Operation Tuleta: 'Justice delayed and denied

Amjid Jabbar discusses the collapse of the high-profile hacking trial and

How your people dictate 'your future direction

Hiring staff who will fit into the model you want your business to follow is critical to sustaining growth, believes Viv Williams