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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

Last week, I wrote a Reports Legal article examining whether the Chancellor, Rishi Sunak, might be contemplating a windfall tax on City law firms and the practical difficulties that he would face in implementing it.

Dominic Carman examines how the “excessive profits” of City law firms in the past year might serve to boost the argument for a windfall tax on London’s multi-millionaire lawyers

Martyn Draper, Head of Finance Practice at Totum Partners, explains how the finance function in law firms includes an increasing set of responsibilities

Kathleen Harris, managing partner of Arnold & Porter’s London office and co-chair of the firm’s Anti-Corruption team, examines the potential rise in SFO whistleblower-led investigations