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Better Call Louis is a rare chance to see behind the scenes of over thirty years of landmark scandals through the eyes of one of the UK’s leading media lawyers, Louis Charalambous.

Tom Proverbs-Garbett’s book, Being a Trainee Solicitor: How to Survive and Thrive will be published in September. Here he explains the genesis of the book and why it is needed.  

Most Legal Futures readers will be well aware of the controversies whipped up among the legal profession by the scandal at the Post Office. Should the lawyers have blown the whistle? Were prosecutions made without sufficient disclosure to those charged? Where should an in-house lawyer’s allegiances lie? All these have been raised time and again on these pages over the past two or three years.

In September 2020, the judgment in PLK and Others was published and the profession welcomed the notion that hourly rates applied to Court of Protection work were out of date and it was deemed reasonable for uplifts of up to 20% to be applied to the guideline hourly rates (GHR).

The growth of increasingly sophisticated software for lawyers is, perhaps inadvertently, giving rise to new ethical problems for the legal profession. As Richard Burnham, co-author of So You Think You’re An Ethical Solicitor?