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Winners celebrate at the Yorkshire Legal Awards 2018
The region’s legal sector celebrated its stunning achievements at the Yorkshire Legal Awards last night. Some 900 legal professionals attended the Yorkshire Legal Awards at New Dock Hall in Leeds.
Yorkshire: God’s own country
Independent mediator Patrick Walker, of Yorkshire, ponders independence and hot pork pies My pride in graduating from a Yorkshire university conveniently masks my peremptory rejection by both Oxford and Cambridge.
Sheffield & District Law Society: Local, focal and vocal
The local law society still has a role to play and remains essential to the life of working solicitors, says Charles Neal, president of the Sheffield & District Law Society
GDPR: The final countdown
GDPR is all but here—is your business ready? The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), due to be implemented on 25 May, is transformative, giving EU member states up-to-date, uniform data
In-house practitioners need to do what they do best
In-house teams need to focus on what’s most important—the law The transition from private practice to in-house must be a tricky one to process. From the move to no billing
Yorkshire Law Society: Honourable histories
Pamela Precious provides a snapshot of the Yorkshire Law Society The Yorkshire Law Society traces its history back to 1786 and the publication of the following announcement: “Many Gentlemen being
Law Society: All the mod cons
Gateley trainee Olivia Lewis talks to Law Society Council member for Leeds Nick Emmerson on efforts to modernise the professional association What is the Law Society Council? The Law Society
I can’t believe it’s not clutter
Patrick Walker contemplates ‘spring cleaning’ and whether clutter is best left alone To my mind, the English spring is sufficiently indistinct and variable that any idea of ‘spring cleaning’ could
Improving business profitability with co-sourcing
Maxine Park explains how co-sourcing is increasing in popularity With post-Brexit uncertainty continuing to cause instability to the economy, one of the main challenges for businesses is being able to
Barnes Family Law and Clark Family Law: Two forces become one
March 2018 saw the coming together of two of Yorkshire’s family solicitors under the banners of Barnes Family Law and Clark Family Law Barnes Family Law was established eight years