Apprenticeships are a great tool that law firms and legal teams can use to upskill existing employees as well as recruit new team members, with a proven positive impact.

It is difficult to imagine that the Post Office scandal could get worse than it already is, but it can and it has. Sir Wyn Williams must wonder what on earth he got himself into in agreeing to chair the inquiry into it.

Evidence shows that the majority of law firms got through the pandemic relatively unscathed, with many thriving during Covid. But looking ahead, storm clouds are gathering.

What does a slowing economy mean for various practice areas – from conveyancing and immigration to crime and family – and firms’ professional indemnity insurance prospects?

For those who haven’t yet read Oliver Burkeman’s Four Thousand Weeks, you need to know this: it’s a time-management book like no other, already a classic.