Now the dust has settled on last month’s The Lawyer Management conference and awards, it’s time to take stock of some of the key themes that were raised during the day and evening. And few were more interesting and potentially worrying than the spectre of cyber-crime and the issue of cyber-security in law firms. It’s […]
Richard Humphreys QC, formerly of Francis Taylor Buildings, has accepted an invitation to join the planning and environment law group at No5 Chambers. Humphreys has been an associate tenant with No5 for some three years and he now becomes a full tenant. The group currently numbers 30 tenants, practising from four offices: Birmingham, London, Bristol and […]
Jason French-Williams, an expert in transport and employment at Eversheds, has reacted to the decision from the European Parliament regulating pilots’ working hours. French-Williams said that having to renegotiate shift patterns to comply with the decision of the European Parliament ‘is likely to also cause resentment by some pilots/cabin crew who are happy with their current, […]
Ogier has four people included in Citywealth’s Jersey Future Leaders list: three from Ogier Private Wealth and one from Ogier Legal. The list was created from a mix of submissions and feedback and recommendations from the global financial services industry and celebrates up-and-coming leaders in Jersey. From the private wealth area, Laura Nevitt, a manager […]
Template-driven web application scales from small cases to big data, empowering eDiscovery analysts and technicians to deliver consistent, defensible and error-free results Nuix, a worldwide provider of information management technologies, today launched Nuix Director, a template-driven web application that streamlines eDiscovery workflows and enables clients and service providers to complete projects rapidly, consistently and without […]
Eversheds Saladžius has sponsored the national legal conference ‘Constitutionalism and Supranationalism’. The conference took the place on 26 September at Vilnius university in Lithuania. It focused on the main issues of national, international and European Union law and considered trends, news, contradictions and challenges.
The Milan office of Eversheds has advised UniCredit and a syndicate of banks on the sale of the Setai Fifth Avenue Hotel and Residences in Manhattan, New York, to Pacific Fifth Avenue Corporation (Langham Group). The Setai Fifth Avenue Hotel and Residences is a skyscraper constructed by 400 Fifth Realty (Bizzi & Partners Group) and […]
Gary Delderfield, head of public sector pensions at Eversheds, has commented on the Fair Deal guidance issued by HM Treasury following a review of the existing Fair Deal guidance. The Fair Deal guidance is a non-statutory policy setting out how pensions issues are to be dealt with when staff are compulsorily transferred from the public […]
Michael Lewin Solicitors announces 700% growth since implementing Proclaim Leeds-based law firm, Michael Lewin Solicitors, has announced explosive growth at a time of challenging legislation for claimant solicitors. Michael Lewin Solicitors was founded in 2001 and has recently passed the 120 employee mark (across 5 office locations). The firm implemented Eclipse’s Proclaim Practice Management software […]
By Andrew Northage The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has proposed to extend eligibility to claim on the Financial Services Compensation Scheme to all unincorporated associations and certain large partnerships. Andrew Northage takes a closer look at the proposals. The Financial Services Compensation Scheme is an independent body and a fund of last resort for customers of authorised financial […]
A team headed by Dr. Lothar Ende, partner at Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek’s Hamburg office, advised publicly listed Japanese Sysmex Corp. on the acquisition of all shares of cancer diagnostics service company Inostics GmbH and on the acquisition of Partec GmbH, a solution provider in cell analysis and flow cytometry. Sysmex Corp. is a leading […]
With the threat of cyber attacks continuously materialising, cyber is now a top risk to national security in several countries, including the UK. While high-profile targets like major banks or critical infrastructure such as power stations or transport networks may be seen as facing the most obvious risk, the legal sector should not underestimate the […]