Pinsent Curtis, Eversheds and Denton Hall are all celebrating taking steps forward in pathfinder local authority PFI work. Eversheds advised Lambeth Borough Council and Pinsents advised the company Serviceteam on the largest out-sourcing of council services ever to be undertaken in the UK. In a separate development, Denton Hall has been appointed to advise Essex […]
The Solicitors Property Group is to meet the title insurance giant First American to discuss the group’s plans to establish a network of solicitors property centres. The move follows the announcement that a second US title insurance company, Stewart Title, has joined forces with marketing firm Conquest Legal Marketing in a bid to establish a […]
The new African & Caribbean Lawyers Society will launch with a benefit event in aid of the Stephen Lawrence family’s appeal for legal aid. The group, set up under the auspices of the College of Law, is staging its first event at the Jamaican High Commission, Prince Consort Road, on Friday, 25 April, at 9pm.
Lovell White Durrant has helped defeat a High Court challenge by a group of Camden residents which fought plans for a development scheme. Planning permission for the mixed office, retail and residential scheme had been challenged by the residents in the High Court on the grounds that the inspector had applied the wrong tests in […]
A 46 year-old professor who specialises in civil liberties has been appointed principal of the Inns of Court School of Law. Richard Stone replaces the current dean, Mary Phillips, on 1 September. Previously dean of Nottingham Law School at Nottingham Trent University, Stone is a distinguished academic and the author of six books and several […]
Liz Davidson reports CITY firm Theodore Goddard’s Web site has received more than 100,000 hits since its launch six months ago. This compares with 20,000 hits during a three-month period at Denton Hall and 135,000 at Clifford Chance during March. According to research conducted by Theodore Goddard, the largest group to visit the site is […]
Leading Scottish firm, McGrigor Donald has appointed Kirk Murdoch as its managing partner. Murdoch, who will assume the role in August, has been a partner with the firm since 1982, and is the firm’s current head of property. The property practice makes up more than one third of the firm’s workload, just behind company and […]
Nabarro Nathanson has withdrawn from Warsaw and transferred its practice to Allen & Overy in a move that will make Allen & Overy a top three foreign firm in Poland. Under what Nabarros is describing as an “amicable arrangement”, partners Michael Davies and Tomasz Dobrowolski and their associates are transferring to Allen & Overy. Nabarros […]
The Law Society has refused to support a plan by Conquest Legal Marketing to establish 150 solicitors property centres within two years. Last week, the legal marketing company announced a joint venture with the US title insurance company Stewart Title to set up a chain of property centres. But in a private session, the Law […]
Hundreds of staff at the Inner London Magistrates Court will receive a 3.3 per cent pay rise after a strike ballot forced a U-turn on government ministers. Gary Streeter, parliamentary secretary to the LCD, had previously blocked the pay rise, which unions had agreed with the local courts management. But after a strike ballot, organised […]
“It’s a stitch up and a PR disaster waiting to happen,” is former Trainee Solicitors’ Group chair Mark Dillon’s verdict on the Law Society’s handling of the current debate on whether to keep the minimum salary for trainee solicitors. And judging from the angry scenes at the TSG annual conference in Birmingham on 12 April, […]
CHARLES Russell will be the legal world’s sole representative at the global computer exhibition Comdex/UK ’97, which is being held at Earl’s Court on 22-24 April. Partners and specialists from the firm will man a stand for the second year running. They will offer advice on information technology, communications and intellectual property law. “All the […]