What should lawyers know about money laundering?

The DLS is a registered charity run by and for people with disabilities, their families and carers.

Solicitors’ firms and barristers’ chambers should reserve a proportion of training contracts and pupillages for candidates with disabilities in order to counterbalance the discrimination against disabilities pervading the legal profession, according to a new report.

What effect will electronic evidence have on the way litigation is resolved?

Will the government’s cut to the discount rate, which determines how much compensation insurers must pay to claimants who have suffered life-changing injuries, amount to a fairer system?

Do businesses really steer away from employing women of child-bearing age?

Commercial litigators represent and advise commercial clients when disputes arise from joint venture projects, contracts, civil fraud, commercial and banking transactions, corporate governance, financial services regulation and professional negligence.

What are the Jackson Reforms and how have they changed the funding of commercial litigation disputes?

What happens when a company that is party to legal proceedings is dissolved or wound up during the course of the proceedings?

The government’s promise of £15 million of new funding for the criminal justice system will boost the fees of high-earning QCs but fail to address the problems faced by struggling junior barristers, the Law Society has warned.

EmbRACE, our ethnicity network, ran a campaign to highlight the racist comments Black, East Asian, South Asian and other ethnic minority professionals might hear in the workplace. The #HowWouldYouFeel campaign consisted of posters on toilet doors sharing these unacceptable comments and encouraged people to discuss the impact they have.

The 11 awardees of this year’s Law Society Diversity Access Scheme (DAS) have been announced.