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Tuesday 13 June 2023 has been announced as the date for this year’s London Legal Walk, with walkers once again encouraged to lace up their trainers and raise some money for crucial frontline legal advice services.

All eight legal regulators need to be more transparent and make more robust decisions, the Legal Services Board (LSB) has declared.

Members of the public across the three main parties support legal aid, research has shown.

CILEX has acquired the Institute of Paralegals (IoP) and its voluntary regulator, the Professional Paralegal Register (PPR).

Nearly all employers (97%) hiring legal professionals in the past 12 months have experienced skills shortages, a leading recruiter has found.

A ‘gold-standard’ register of experts has been officially launched by the Expert Witness Institute (EWI).

Residential property law team welcomes two additions

Legal tech provider appoints new managing director

Partner joins energy and infrastructure practice in London

TLT boosts commercial offering with senior hires in Edinburgh

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DWF—Ed Williams

Public sector disputes capability bolstered by partner hire in Leeds

Blake Morgan—Scott Hilton, Joan Yu & Melia Hirst

Firm strengthens corporate, real estate and insolvency teams with partner trio

Seddons GSC—David Seal & Emma Clifford

Consultant and solicitor join commercial real estate team

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NLJ this week: What judging really demands

Judging is ‘more intellectually demanding than any other role in public life’—and far messier than outsiders imagine. Writing in NLJ this week, Professor Graham Zellick KC reflects on decades spent wrestling with unclear legislation, fragile precedent and human fallibility

NLJ this week: AI comes for the billable hour

The long-predicted death of the billable hour may finally be here—and this time, it’s armed with a scythe. In a sweeping critique of time-based billing, Ian McDougall, president of the LexisNexis Rule of Law Foundation, argues in this week's NLJ that artificial intelligence has made hourly charging ‘intellectually, commercially and ethically indefensible’

NLJ this week: Civil procedure—sharp elbows & sharper warnings

From fake authorities to rent reform, the civil courts have had a busy start to 2026. In his latest 'Civil way' column for NLJ this week, Stephen Gold surveys a procedural landscape where guidance, discretion and discipline are all under strain

NLJ this week: Getting the facts right in family courts

Fact-finding hearings remain a fault line in private family law. Writing in NLJ this week, Victoria Rylatt and Robyn Laye of Anthony Gold Solicitors analyse recent appeals exposing the dangers of rushed or fragmented findings

NLJ this week: Sporting justice—at sprint speed

As the Winter Olympics open in Milan and Cortina, legal disputes are once again being resolved almost as fast as the athletes compete. Writing in NLJ this week, Professor Ian Blackshaw of Valloni Attorneys examines the Court of Arbitration for Sport’s (CAS's) ad hoc divisions, which can decide cases within 24 hours

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Profession

MOVERS & SHAKERS

DWF—Ed Williams

Blake Morgan—Scott Hilton, Joan Yu & Melia Hirst

Seddons GSC—David Seal & Emma Clifford