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Finding your way

27 October 2014
Categories: Features , E-disclosure , Procedure & practice , Costs , Budgeting
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Jeffrey T Shapiro & James Morrey-Jones examine how law firms should budget for e-discovery post-Jackson

Whether you agree or disagree with the changes ushered in by the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (LASPO) or are straddled on the barbed wire fence between the two camps, we are nearly 18 months on from the biggest change in law reform since the Woolf reforms were enacted in 1999. We are not here to argue for one side or the other; the fact is we are on this rollercoaster together, and many of us do not know where it is going to take us. After the barrel rolls of the Mitchell judgment and the batwings of the fallout, we now find ourselves in seemingly calmer waters of Denton’s three-stage test. With these decisions we may have moved on in the world of case law, yet lurking in the water is the tick tock of the big, bad ad hoc world of budgeting

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

Muckle LLP—Rachael Chapman

Muckle LLP—Rachael Chapman

Sports, education and charities practice welcomes senior associate

Ellisons—Carla Jones

Ellisons—Carla Jones

Partner and head of commercial litigation joins in Chelmsford

Freeths—Louise Mahon

Freeths—Louise Mahon

Firm strengthens Glasgow corporate practice with partner hire

NEWS
One in five in-house lawyers suffer ‘high’ or ‘severe’ work-related stress, according to a report by global legal body, the Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC)
The Legal Ombudsman’s (LeO’s) plea for a budget increase has been rejected by the Law Society and accepted only ‘with reluctance’ by conveyancers
Overcrowded prisons, mental health hospitals and immigration centres are failing to meet international and domestic human rights standards, the National Preventive Mechanism (NPM) has warned
Two speedier and more streamlined qualification routes have been launched for probate and conveyancing professionals
Workplace stress was a contributing factor in almost one in eight cases before the employment tribunal last year, indicating its endemic grip on the UK workplace
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