Matthew Kay
Director
Matthew Kay, director of Vario at Pinsent Masons (Matthew.Kay@pinsentmasons.com; www.pinsentmasonsvario.com)
Director
Matthew Kay, director of Vario at Pinsent Masons (Matthew.Kay@pinsentmasons.com; www.pinsentmasonsvario.com)
As engagement with the ESG agenda moves from a nice-to-have to a must-have, Matthew Kay & Mike Harvey consider the role of legal teams
Matthew Kay reflects on how freelance legal consulting has evolved & offers some tips on how to make a success of it
Matthew Kay investigates the pros & cons of training home-based workers
Matthew Kay examines the effects of e-presenteeism in the legal sector
Matthew Kay highlights the opportunities presented by the ‘new normal’ of the post-lockdown legal landscape
Top tips to manage your career from home: Matthew Kay outlines how lawyers can get comfortable with the UK’s new way of working
Law firms which subscribe to common misconceptions about the millennial generation are missing a trick, says Matthew Kay
Shred, store, or secure? Matthew Kay & Natasha Adom tackle the archiving conundrum
MOVERS & SHAKERS
Freeths—Ruth Clare
National real estate team bolstered by partner hire in Manchester
Farrer & Co—Claire Gordon
Partner appointed head of family team
mfg Solicitors—Neil Harrison
Firm strengthens agriculture and rural affairs team with partner return
NEWS
Conveyancing lawyers have enjoyed a rapid win after campaigning against UK Finance’s decision to charge for access to the Mortgage Lenders’ Handbook
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has launched a recruitment drive for talented early career and more senior barristers and solicitors
Regulators differed in the clarity and consistency of their post-Mazur advice and guidance, according to an interim report by the Legal Services Board (LSB)
The dangers of uncritical artificial intelligence (AI) use in legal practice are no longer hypothetical. In this week's NLJ, Dr Charanjit Singh of Holborn Chambers examines cases where lawyers relied on ‘hallucinated’ citations — entirely fictitious authorities generated by AI tools
The Solicitors Act 1974 may still underpin legal regulation, but its age is increasingly showing. Writing in NLJ this week, Victoria Morrison-Hughes of the Association of Costs Lawyers argues that the Act is ‘out of step with modern consumer law’ and actively deters fairness
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