Matthew Kay
Director
Matthew Kay, director of Vario at Pinsent Masons (Matthew.Kay@pinsentmasons.com; www.pinsentmasonsvario.com)
Director
Matthew Kay, director of Vario at Pinsent Masons (Matthew.Kay@pinsentmasons.com; www.pinsentmasonsvario.com)
As engagement with the ESG agenda moves from a nice-to-have to a must-have, Matthew Kay & Mike Harvey consider the role of legal teams
Matthew Kay reflects on how freelance legal consulting has evolved & offers some tips on how to make a success of it
Matthew Kay investigates the pros & cons of training home-based workers
Matthew Kay examines the effects of e-presenteeism in the legal sector
Matthew Kay highlights the opportunities presented by the ‘new normal’ of the post-lockdown legal landscape
Top tips to manage your career from home: Matthew Kay outlines how lawyers can get comfortable with the UK’s new way of working
Law firms which subscribe to common misconceptions about the millennial generation are missing a trick, says Matthew Kay
Shred, store, or secure? Matthew Kay & Natasha Adom tackle the archiving conundrum
MOVERS & SHAKERS
NLJ Career Profile: Daniel Burbeary, Michelman Robinson
Daniel Burbeary, office managing partner of Michelman Robinson, discusses launching in London, the power of the law, and what the kitchen can teach us about litigating
Joelson—Jennifer Mansoor
West End firm strengthens employment and immigration team with partner hire
Sidley—Jeremy Trinder
Global finance group strengthened by returning partner in London
NEWS
Cheating in driving tests is surging—and courts are responding firmly. Writing in NLJ this week, Neil Parpworth of De Montfort Law School charts a rise in impersonation and tech-assisted fraud, with 2,844 attempts recorded in a year
As AI-generated ‘deepfake’ images proliferate, the law may already have the tools to respond. In NLJ this week, Jon Belcher of Excello Law argues that such images amount to personal data processing under UK GDPR
In a striking financial remedies ruling, the High Court cut a wife’s award by 40% for coercive and controlling behaviour. Writing in NLJ this week, Chris Bryden and Nicole Wallace of 4 King’s Bench Walk analyse LP v MP [2025] EWFC 473
A €60.9m award to Kylian Mbappé has refocused attention on football’s controversial ‘ethics bonus’ clauses. Writing in NLJ this week, Dr Estelle Ivanova of Valloni Attorneys at Law examines how such provisions sit within French labour law
A seemingly dry procedural update may prove potent. In his latest 'Civil way' column for NLJ this week, Stephen Gold explains that new CPR 31.12A—part of the 193rd update—fills a ‘lacuna’ exposed in McLaren Indy v Alpa Racing
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