Any lawyer who has been to trial has quickly learned the difference between how a courtroom operates in real life and how it is portrayed in literature and film. But to focus on the differences is to overlook some uncanny similarities – particularly in how attorneys model themselves after the lawyers of fiction and deliver their presentations with intentionally dramatic flair.
Over the past decade, the legal aid system has been dramatically impacted by financial cuts. The 2013 Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act (LASPO) saw £350 million knocked off of the £2 billion legal aid budget, resulting in vast numbers of people losing access to much-need legal support. Perhaps unsurprisingly, it has been […]
Marketing your law firm can be confusing and daunting, especially if you do not have any marketing experience and your legal business has not carried out much legal marketing in the past.
The full range of mental health disorders can have a considerable impact on the development of family law cases, which involve divorce and separation. Below, we hear from Monica Nemec on how mental illness is handled in the legal sector and what can be done to address its shortcomings.
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