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Recent commentary in the press to the effect that lawyers should exercise more moral judgment about the cases they take on has made barrister Theo Huckle QC uneasy

How do you boil a complex legal case down to a mathematical percentage? It’s not an easy process, as Philip Young, partner, Cooke Young & Keidan, explains in this week’s NLJ

Nottingham Law School lecturers have called for more creativity in changing attitudes to misogyny and street harassment

Kennedys’ virtual work experience programme has had 10,000 enrolments in just over one year

Love a quiz? Most people do, which is what makes the annual Great Legal Quiz such a hit

Lawyers are urged to polish up their entries for ‘The Probies’, ahead of the 26 November deadline

Lawyers have stepped up their action on climate change, as global attention focuses on COP26

The Incorporated Council of Law Reporting for England and Wales (ICLR) launched its latest digital upgrade, ICLR.4, this week

Bar Council Chair Derek Sweeting QC hailed the £2.2bn extra for the courts, prison and probation services in Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s Budget last week ‘a step in the right direction’, but warned there would still be a shortfall of funding

Fiona Rutherford, director, Access to Justice Policy, at the Ministry of Justice, pays tribute to the value of pro bono for lawyers & clients alike

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University of Manchester: The LLM driving tech-focused career growth

Manchester’s online LLM has accelerated career progression for its graduates

mfg Solicitors—Philip Chapman

Regional firm strengthens corporate team with partner hire

Winckworth Sherwood—Sarbjeet Gill

Firm boosts real estate development team with partner hire

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Oatly loses long-running ‘milk’ war with dairy farmers

Swedish company Oatly has lost its bid to trademark the term ‘post milk generation’, after the Supreme Court ruled unanimously in favour of the dairy industry trade association, Dairy UK

‘Seismic’ ruling makes AI patentable

It is possible to obtain a UK patent for an artificial intelligence (AI) machine which uses artificial neural networks (ANNs), the Supreme Court has held

General counsel role in flux, says report

The current state of geopolitics is so volatile it is ‘fundamentally reshaping’ the role of general counsel, according to a report by a global network of law firms

Perils of incorrect service highlighted

The High Court has clarified how winding-up petitions must be served, in a decision with implications for 30,000 UK businesses using the Companies House default address for official mail

Legal Services Board under the microscope

The ‘statutory remit’ of super-regulator the Legal Services Board (LSB) is to come under scrutiny in a government review

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Profession

MOVERS & SHAKERS

University of Manchester: The LLM driving tech-focused career growth

mfg Solicitors—Philip Chapman

Winckworth Sherwood—Sarbjeet Gill