Features
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Sexism and the City - why female lawyers are afraid to speak out against discrimination
By Legal Week | April 11, 2013
In her new book of feminist advice for women in the workplace, Sheryl Sandberg, the chief operating officer of Facebook and the first woman on the social networking giant's board, acknowledges what many are afraid to admit publicly: "Women face real obstacles in the professional world, including blatant and subtle sexism, discrimination and sexual harassment." Readers of Lean In: Women, Work and the Will to Lead will know that Sandberg, a 43-year-old American mother of two, has fought for and won priority parking for pregnant women and picked lice out of her children's hair on a company jet.
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Change is coming: the slow destruction of the legal profession
By Legal Week | April 11, 2013
The law as a profession has always been slow to change. Yet in the UK, change is very definitely afoot. Underpinned by the Legal Services Act, accelerated by the tough economic conditions, and with outsourcing and technology slowly beginning to take a foothold in the market, suddenly the future looks very different.
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Search: it isn't dead – it's evolving at speed
By Legal Week | April 4, 2013
Graham Digby explains how intelligent search is crucial for the future of legal research.
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Coaching partners to improve their business development skills
By Legal Week | March 28, 2013
In today's highly competitive legal markets, developing business development skills - the ability to manage and grow existing clients, as well as bring in new ones - is essential if lawyers want to be successful.
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Access to the legal profession: a student's perspective
By Legal Week | March 8, 2013
The practice of law is undoubtedly changing. The profession is now much more diverse and accessible than it was 50 years ago. However entering the law is still notoriously difficult, with barriers at every stage of the process; from funding studies, to past performance, to gaining the much coveted training contract.
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Unbundling of legal services: why the practise of law is like human life
By Legal Week | March 1, 2013
To suggest legal work is a process is to many lawyers an insult and an affront to their autonomy and intellectual capability. The reality though, is becoming harshly exposed in today's ultra-competitive world.
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Hiding behind a screen: a judicious approach?
By Legal Week | March 1, 2013
With the latest additions joining the Supreme Court there will no doubt be a debate over quotas and how to get a better representation of the profession and society.
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Engineering the law
By Legal Week | February 22, 2013
Legal Futures reports the news that a global consultancy that project manages some of the world's largest infrastructure and energy projects is buying a specialist law practice has significance beyond the construction and engineering sector.
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ABS: not a Big Bang, more a slow boil
By Legal Week | February 21, 2013
The process of applying to become an ABS has more been a slow boil than a bang. However, in the next three years that may change.
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Risking your brand: the Co-op and the law
By Legal Week | February 21, 2013
Simon Goldie, LexisNexis' head of public relations, discusses the Co-op's entry into legal services.
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