Anthony Foley has been jailed for 20 months after admitting charges of bigamy and obtaining benefits by deception. Birmingham Crown Court heard that Foley’s wife Maxine, who suffered from Friedreich’s Ataxia, was admitted to a home in 2006 because she began to require 24-hour care. A year later Foley stopped visiting his wife, saying he […]
Amid the clamour for work-life balance, law firms are responding with a series of flexible working policies that allow more people to work from home. And of course, with rents a major part of firms’ expenditure, it helps take the pressure off space requirements too. Will it soon become the norm? Herbert Smith Freehills makes […]
A total of 42 partners and staff of failed firm McClure Naismith have been left with no jobs to go to after the firm’s administrators worked to secure positions for the majority of the firm. The Scottish firm appointed FRP Advisory partners Tom MacLennan and Iain Fraser as joint administrators on Friday evening, a week […]
Cable & Wireless Communications (CWC) general counsel Belinda Bradberry is gearing up to install the company’s first-ever legal panel, with growth in the business changing the way its legal function operates. Bradberry has in the past shied away from a formal panel, believing them to be unsuited to CWC’s business model. However, after CWC’s recent […]
Bevan Brittan is to enter the Leeds legal market after hiring two DWF lawyers to launch an office in the city. The firm is to be joined by DWF healthcare head and partner Michael Boyd and director Julie Cowan Clark, who specialises in residential development and commercial property work. It is the third lateral hire […]
Slaughter and May and Pinsent Masons have retained their top positions in the corporate client rankings, but Norton Rose Fulbright has edged Linklaters out of the top five firms ranked by total stock market clients. According to the latest data published by Adviser Rankings, Slaughters continued to lead at the top of the table despite […]
In a brief round-up online on 18 September focusing on the consolidation in the Scottish market we said that Digby Brown had merged with Irwin Mitchell. This was not the case; Digby Brown remains a thriving and independent firm with a turnover of £24.9 million that has not been approached by Irwin Mitchell. We regret […]
Last night, Lord Sumption, a Justice of the Supreme Court, was trending on Twitter. This, I think, was a first. The furore was linked to an interview given by Lord Sumption to the Evening Standard. The full interview can be found here. What drew particular ire from the Twitterati were the comments by Lord Sumption […]
The High Court has referred Manchester firm Sandbrook Solicitors to the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) over concerns regarding abuse of court processes in immigration cases . In a ruling on Thursday (10 September), Mr Justice Green said a number of cases brought by Sandbrook Solicitors “exhibit a pattern whereby injunctions to restrain imminent removal…are being […]
A total of 42 partners and staff of failed firm McClure Naismith have been left with no jobs to go to after the firm’s administrators worked to secure positions for the majority of the firm. The Scottish firm appointed FRP Advisory partners Tom MacLennan and Iain Fraser as joint administrators on Friday evening (28 August), […]
Ashley Madison is continuing to fill the pages of newspapers across the world after 25 gigabytes of customer details were stolen from the infidelity data website. This particular hack has been so well covered due to the morally ambiguous nature of its business but data breaches happen often within the business world and frequently lead […]
Scottish firm McClure Naismith has appointed administrators after several years of tumbling revenues meant it was no longer able to service its debt or other liabilities. McClures, which failed to file its LLP accounts for the 2013/14 financial year, has appointed FRP Advisory partners Tom MacLennan and Iain Fraser as joint administrators a week after […]