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25 February 2022
Issue: 7967 / Categories: Legal News , Courses , Career focus , Profession
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NLJ jobs & career hub: career clinic & practice development

NLJ aims to help you achieve the best possible match through our Jobs & Careers hub. As well as recruitment ads, it offers business-critical information and advice through a range of articles

For insight into overcoming obstacles and achieving career success, visit NLJ’s careers clinic.

For example, you might want to find out how the legal market is expected to perform in 2022: which areas of law will see continued demand? Will salaries continue to rise this year, how will firms react to demand for flexible working and will we see a change in law firm culture? Seamus Hoar, senior partner, Major, Lindsey & Africa looks at these issues in his NLJ article, ‘Will the party end in 2022? Not before it gets a whole lot louder’. 

If legal marketing is your bag then turn to Dominic Ayres’ excellent article, ‘Getting ahead in legal marketing’. Ayres, a senior client manager at Eversheds Sutherland, and the author of How to Advance Your Career in Professional Services Marketing (January 2022), provides a wealth of insight into this fast-paced and demanding career. 

Or perhaps your field is litigation and you either want to support your junior litigators or you are a junior litigator? The pandemic provided uniquely different challenges for us all. Emma West of RPC & Caroline Phipps of LK Law are co-chairs of the Associates Committee of the Commercial Litigators’ Forum: in an informative article, ‘Junior litigators & the new ‘normal’’, they look into the career challenges and opportunities of post-pandemic working for junior practitioners in litigation. 

For all this and much, much more: visit NLJ’s Jobs & Careers hub, at www.newlawjournal.co.uk/career-hub.

Issue: 7967 / Categories: Legal News , Courses , Career focus , Profession
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MOVERS & SHAKERS

Gateley Legal—Caroline Pope & Bob Maynard

Gateley Legal—Caroline Pope & Bob Maynard

Construction team bolstered by hire of senior consultant duo

Switalskis—four appointments

Switalskis—four appointments

Firm expands residential conveyancing team with quadruple appointment

mfg Solicitors—Claire Pope

mfg Solicitors—Claire Pope

Private client team welcomes senior associatein Worcester

NEWS
What safeguards apply when trust corporations are appointed as deputy by the Court of Protection? 
Disputing parties are expected to take part in alternative dispute resolution (ADR), where this is suitable for their case. At what point, however, does refusing to participate cross the threshold of ‘unreasonable’ and attract adverse costs consequences?
When it comes to free legal advice, demand massively outweighs supply. 'Millions of people are excluded from access to justice as they don’t have anywhere to turn for free advice—or don’t know that they can ask for help,' Bhavini Bhatt, development director at the Access to Justice Foundation, writes in this week's NLJ
When an ex-couple is deciding who gets what in the divorce or civil partnership dissolution, when is it appropriate for a third party to intervene? David Burrows, NLJ columnist and solicitor advocate, considers this thorny issue in this week’s NLJ
NLJ's latest Charities Appeals Supplement has been published in this week’s issue
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