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After 50 years in practice, many lawyers will have their eyes on the tomato plants and nasturtiums. Not Andrew Phillips, who remains as vigorous a campaigner as ever. He talks to Jonathan Ames about where the English legal profession is going wrong | 14yrs

Global general counsel answer our big question | 14yrs

Leading law firm partners answer the big questions | 14yrs

Bruce Carton - the President of legal media firm Docket Media and co-author of Law.com's Legal Blog Watch in the US - has been keeping an eye on the recent submissions for internet domain name suffixes. | 14yrs

'I quite like watching the TV comedy show 8 Out of 10 Cats,' begins Nick Kehoe in his blog on the UK's Law Gazette website. Rather than being a statement more suitable for a Facebook post or a Twitter tweet, Mr Kehoe is building to a serious point. | 14yrs

Lawyers as football referees | 14yrs

Having read about Dr Jay Parkinson and his innovative US healthcare services, legal commentator Jordan Furlong - writing on the Attorney at Work blog - muses whether the ideas can be applied to a lawyer's schedule. | 14yrs

Many a chief executive has nightmares featuring the heavy tread of regulators approaching the boardroom door. Deborah Blaxell suggests that having key information prepared in advance can take the worry out of such visits | 14yrs

Intricacies and details over litigation funding have historically been for the anorak crowd. | 14yrs

Transparency and accountability are crucial both in the fight against poverty and to promote social development. Lance Croffoot-Suede and Nathalie Hobbs argue that global law firms can play a vital role in the process | 14yrs

Third-party litigation funding is controversial, but the sector has grown rapidly in the past year. Nick Rowles-Davies gives a global perspective on an increasingly buoyant market | 14yrs

Reforms to the French legal profession started under the Sarkozy regime are not likely to be jettisoned by his successor. But, argues Antoine Tchekhoff, business lawyers and their clients should still keep a wary eye on President François Hollande | 14yrs

Conflict of interest rules continue to be in disarray in one of the US's most important jurisdictions following an important ruling earlier this month in California. | 14yrs

A leading German law firm has slammed European Commission plans to introduce stricter climate change regulations, in a legal opinion produced on behalf of the Alliance of Energy Intensive Industries. | 14yrs

An EU Council proposal that affects the rights of access to a lawyer in criminal proceedings falls 'dramatically below' accepted human rights standards, according to Europe's leading legal affairs campaigning body. | 14yrs

A British Columbia judge has dismissed claims that the appointment of the province's attorney general should be ruled invalid because she is not a lawyer. | 14yrs

Successful reforms in the Zambian Judiciary and legal profession will only materialise if lawyers and senior judges work more closely, according to one of the country's leading practitioners. | 14yrs

Pressure on the UAE authorities to support traditional Muslim values is building as the rulers face calls for the imposition of a strict dress code law. | 14yrs

Russian lawyers have strongly criticised the leader of the country's Supreme Commercial Court after it was suggested that local courts should have the power to overturn foreign rulings that are not in the national interest. | 14yrs