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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

Cripps—Radius Law

Cripps—Radius Law

Commercial and technology practice boosted by team hire

Switalskis—Grimsby

Switalskis—Grimsby

Firm expands with new Grimsby office to serve North East Lincolnshire

Slater Heelis—Will Newman & Lucy Spilsbury

Slater Heelis—Will Newman & Lucy Spilsbury

Property team boosted by two solicitor appointments

NEWS
A High Court ruling involving the Longleat estate has exposed the fault line between modern family building and historic trust drafting. Writing in NLJ this week, Charlotte Coyle, director and family law expert at Freeths, examines Cator v Thynn [2026] EWHC 209 (Ch), where trustees sought approval to modernise trusts that retain pre-1970 definitions of ‘child’, ‘grandchild’ and ‘issue’
Fresh proposals to criminalise ‘nudification’ apps, prioritise cyberflashing and non-consensual intimate images, and even ban under-16s from social media have reignited debate over whether the Online Safety Act 2023 (OSA 2023) is fit for purpose. Writing in NLJ this week, Alexander Brown, head of technology, media and telecommunications, and Alexandra Webster, managing associate, Simmons & Simmons, caution against reactive law-making that could undermine the Act’s ‘risk-based and outcomes-focused’ design
Recent allegations surrounding Peter Mandelson and Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor have reignited scrutiny of the ancient common law offence of misconduct in public office. Writing in NLJ this week, Simon Parsons, teaching fellow at Bath Spa University, asks whether their conduct could clear a notoriously high legal hurdle
A landmark ruling has reshaped child clinical negligence claims. Writing in NLJ this week, Jodi Newton, head of birth and paediatric negligence at Osbornes Law, explains how the Supreme Court in CCC v Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust [2026] UKSC 5 has overturned Croke v Wiseman, ending the long-standing bar on children recovering ‘lost years’ earnings
A Court of Appeal ruling has drawn a firm line under party autonomy in arbitration. Writing in NLJ this week, Masood Ahmed, associate professor at the University of Leicester, analyses Gluck v Endzweig [2026] EWCA Civ 145, where a clause allowing arbitrators to amend an award ‘at any time’ was held incompatible with the Arbitration Act 1996
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