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If you happen to be Black, you’re twice as likely to leave the profession earlier than your white counterparts – this must change, says Law Society president, I. Stephanie Boyce

Chair of the Bar, Derek Sweeting QC, tells Dominic Carman that the Bar needs to reflect society

Netanya Clixby tells Reports Legal that firms need to look harder in their search for diverse legal talent

Time and data gathering are cited as big problems, but very few firms admit that the relative absence of Black lawyers is their biggest diversity challenge

Dominic Carman examines how law firms are under pressure to ‘talk less and do more’ in response to multiple diversity challenges.

Bav Patel, Director at Dandi Legal, explains how law firms can address the diversity challenge

As the Competition and Markets Authority issued its final guidance on misleading environmental claims and fired a warning shot to businesses- either secure compliance now or face enforcement action, Richard Reichman, partner in the regulatory team at BCL Solicitors LLP, analyses the compliance risks for businesses.  Against the background of the UK’s aim to achieve …

By Robert Jones, Managing Partner of Baker & Partners (Cayman) Limited, and Peter Eguae, barrister, 7 Bedford Row   At the time of writing, each bitcoin is worth just over US$50,000. With the right tools anyone, anywhere in the world, is unilaterally able to store or transfer crypto assets – whether peer-to-peer or via the …

The psychological load for lawyers of a hybrid workplace by Brendan Street, Professional Head of Emotional Wellbeing, Nuffield Health

Sigrid McCawley, the lawyer at the heart of the scandal involving Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell and Prince Andrew: Virginia Giuffre Roberts and other Epstein victims are now believed