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Probation Periods and Fair Dismissal: A Practical Guide for Managers
A practical guide for UK and Ireland managers on what probation periods legally are, how to run them fairly, and what the two-year unfair dismissal rule (and the incoming 2027 reforms) really means for dismissing someone during or after probation.
Unconscious Bias in Workplace Decisions: A Manager's Guide
Unconscious bias shapes recruitment, performance and promotion decisions in ways training alone rarely fixes. This guide explains the evidence and the structural changes that actually reduce bias.
CQS 2026 Update: What Conveyancing Firms Need to Know
A practical guide to the Law Society's Conveyancing Quality Scheme: accreditation and reaccreditation, the CQS Protocol, Core Practice Management Standards, and what's changing for conveyancing firms in 2026.
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Residential Conveyancing Risk and Fraud: A Practical Guide
A practical guide for conveyancing solicitors covering Friday afternoon fraud, email interception, seller impersonation of unmortgaged or unoccupied properties, and the verification steps that stop them.
Witness Handling and Vulnerable Witnesses: A Guide for Solicitors
A practical guide for solicitors on preparing witnesses, identifying vulnerability, and using special measures — plus the ethical line between familiarisation and coaching.
Advocacy Fundamentals: A Practical Guide for Solicitors
A practical guide to courtroom and tribunal advocacy basics for solicitors: building a case theory, structuring submissions, examination-in-chief and cross-examination technique, courtroom etiquette, and when to seek Higher Rights of Audience or instruct counsel.
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Negotiation for Lawyers: A Practical Skills Guide
A practical guide to negotiation for solicitors: preparing with BATNA and client authority, positional vs interest-based technique, common tactics to recognise, and the SRA integrity boundaries that apply.
Commercial Contract Drafting: Essential Skills for Lawyers
A practical guide to the clauses that decide commercial disputes — limitation of liability, indemnities, termination, force majeure and governing law — and how to draft them with genuine risk awareness, not just boilerplate competence.
Clear Legal Writing: A Practical Guide for Solicitors
Plain-English techniques for solicitors: clearer client letters, SRA-aligned communication, and court documents that judges and opposing counsel can follow fast.
Law Firm Finance and Matter Profitability: A Practical Guide
Lock-up, realisation rates and matter-level profitability explained in plain terms, plus the SRA client money basics every fee earner should know and simple habits that protect margin without hurting client service.
Price Transparency, Costs and Client Communications: A Guide for Law Firms
What the SRA Transparency Rules require firms to publish, why costs complaints keep reaching the Legal Ombudsman, and how a clearer client care letter and costs estimate can prevent both.
Undertakings: Risk and Compliance for Solicitors
Why solicitors' undertakings carry personal, strictly-enforced liability, the conveyancing and costs scenarios where they most often go wrong, and how to word one — or get out of one — safely.
Legal Professional Privilege in Practice: A Guide for Solicitors
A practical guide to legal advice privilege and litigation privilege, how privilege is lost or waived, dominant purpose in Three Rivers and SFO v ENRC, and common pitfalls in day-to-day practice.