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Are Online Legal Advisors Giving Biased and Potentially Damaging Advice?

30th December 2019
Vulnerable people representing themselves in court are being given biased and misinformed advice by online legal advisors, new research has found.
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Birmingham Lawyers Help Families in Need With Gift Donations

19th December 2019
Lawyers and staff at the Birmingham office of Clarke Willmott LLP have ditched the office ‘Secret Santa’ to buy toys for local children instead.
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Experts Call for Regulation, Not Abolition, for AI

17th December 2019
AI Now Institute has recently called for the regulation of emotion-detecting AI; the kind of AI that is often now used in recruitment.
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Thousands of People ’Protected At Work’ After Landmark Tribunal Ruling

17th December 2019
Thousands of workers now be protected against managers targeting people on ethnicity, gender, trade union membership or disability grounds says GMB Union.
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Clifford Chance Hackathon Empowers All Trainees to Produce Apps

11th December 2019
All trainees are trained how to build apps as part of their onboarding.
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China's New State Oil & Pipeline Company Heralds Major Energy Reform

11th December 2019
China has officially launched a new state-owned oil and gas pipeline company – China Oil & Gas Piping Network Corp.– in an effort to revamp the country’s oil and gas pipeline sector.
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More Applications to Legal Roles, As Pay and Job Opportunities Improve

10th December 2019
Candidates appear to be growing in confidence, despite looming political uncertainty, making now an ideal time to hire
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Two-Thirds of Legal Professionals Expect No Rise in SFO Convictions

10th December 2019
Survey of white-collar crime lawyers conducted by Rahman Ravelli reveals low expectations of SFO.
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WTO Faces International Trade Settlement Dispute Crisis

9th December 2019
The World Trade Organization, the international party that usually deals with multinational legal disputes between trading nations, is currently facing a crisis in its system.
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New Figures Reveal Barristers' Commitment to Pro Bono

5th December 2019
As Pro Bono Week gets underway, new Bar Council figures reveal that a record high of one in every four barristers practising in England and Wales undertook pro bono work in 2018.
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