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Talking turkey! Broaching the subject of salary at interview
Recently, I found myself at a meeting with the Head of Recruitment of one of our major national clients. The conversation turned to the subject of salaries and how...
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Sep 21, 2016
5 min
MANCHESTER – THE EMERGENCE OF A NORTHERN LEGAL POWERHOUSE
Much has been made by the legal press about the recent arrival of a number of international heavyweights into the city’s legal services market. Law firms far and...
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Oct 17, 2015
5 min
CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY - THE SME PERSPECTIVE
CSR is an acronym that has entrenched itself into modern business lexicon. Many large corporations now have impressive, well-structured CSR policies from planting...
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Oct 11, 2015
6 min
The Leeds and Manchester Legal markets - A tale of two cities!
The rivalry between the red and the white rose is well documented, but the two northern economic heavyweights have also always enjoyed a healthy degree of competition...
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May 15, 2015
5 min
Law - it’s a numbers game: The arrival of the ‘Big Four’ in the legal services market
In December 2014, EY became the latest Big Four accountancy firm to gain Alternative Business Structure (ABS) status from the Solicitors Regulation Authority. KPMG...
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May 15, 2015
7 min
Times are a changing: Will the candidate be king in 2015?
The past few years been an emotional time for lawyers operating in the UK legal services market. At a national and regional level, candidates had to cope with not...
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May 15, 2015
6 min
Law Society recognises first paralegal to qualify as solicitor through equivalent means
A senior paralegal, who works for the immigration department of London firm, Bates Wells Braithwaite has successfully achieved the status of solicitor. Robert Houchill,...
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Apr 15, 2015
3 min
Bydand Legal goes quackers!! Crowds flock despite fowl weather to cheer on Manchester’s sixth duck race in support of Brainwave!
A wet and rainy Good Friday. Not exactly the ideal setting for a large-scale outdoor charity event, but perfect weather for ducks! And so it was, Manchester hosted...
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Apr 3, 2015
3 min
Left out in the cold: Claimant personal injury lawyers question exclusion from insurance fraud task force.
Claimant personal injury solicitors may well feel justifiably aggrieved by the decision to exclude them from an inquiry designed to investigate the growing cost...
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Mar 23, 2015
3 min