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FOCUS OF THE DAY: Solicitors should abandon the concept of “perfection” and concentrate instead on improving their performance, a City training chief has said. Viola Joseph, solicitor and legal learning leader at Hogan Lovells, said the firm was one of the first big practices to opt into the new CPD regime introduced by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) in April this year. Full story - Legal Futures
FOCUS OF THE DAY: Solicitors should abandon the concept of “perfection” and concentrate instead on improving their performance, a City training chief has said. Viola Joseph, solicitor and legal learning leader at Hogan Lovells, said the firm was one of the first big practices to opt into the new CPD regime introduced by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) in April this year. Full story - Legal Futures
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