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The Garrick Club dining room: Only chaps allowedThe Bar Council said yesterday that membership of the men-only Garrick Club creates “the potential for unfair advantage” when it came to practitioners needing references to become judges.In a surprise statement over the row that blew up last week after The Guardian named judges and others who were

LSB: Lower inflation has helpedThe Legal Services Board (LSB) is trimming back the increase in its budget for the coming year to 10%, while also approving a 7% rise in the Legal Ombudsman’s (LeO) budget.These amount to an extra £1.75m to be paid by the legal profession, which funds both organisations through a compulsory levy

By Legal Futures Associate Access LegalAccess Legal, has released the much-anticipated latest version of Access Legal Proclaim  – one of its leading legal case and practice management solutions – complete with a slick, modern design and faster performance to give legal professionals the freedom to do more, improving productivity and efficiency for their practice.The significantly

By Rod Wittenberg, Vice President of Financial Productivity at Legal Futures Associate BigHandI recently hosted a panel at the BigHand Virtual Conference with Cary Lenkeit, CFO at Archer & Greiner P.C, David Rueff, Chief Practice Group Solutions Officer at Baker Donelson, and Zach Rausch, Director of Financial Planning & Analysis at Fisher Phillips, on how

Post Office: Legal advice was to keep using ‘without prejudice’The Post Office has made a “policy decision” to remove the label ‘without prejudice’ (WP) from its Horizon Shortfall Scheme compensation letters.Correspondence newly released by the Department for Business and Trade reveals that the Post Office took advice on the issue from external lawyers who, apart