Kem Ihenacho is a trainee solicitor at Morgan Bruce. He was born in Birmingham in 1972. What was your first job? Labourer for a building contractor. What was your first ever salary as a lawyer? Comfortably above Law Society minimum. What would you have done if you hadn’t become a lawyer? My ideal alternative career […]
Littleton Chambers is to develop an extensive mediation service for clients in anticipation of a move away from advocacy work at the Bar. Twelve of the civil and commercial law set’s 35 barristers have now undertaken mediation training as part of a policy to develop its Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) practice. In a pioneering move, […]
A LONDON solicitor has set up a video conferencing company aimed at solicitors and barristers. Kaye Tesler & Co senior partner Michael Kaye has launched a company called Video Conferencing for Lawyers (VCL), which aims to cut lawyers’ travelling costs by offering them a system of communicating by video links. VCL offers the service in […]
Bar council chairman Robert Owen has attacked those who label the Bar as a greedy, Dickensian profession. In an address to European lawyers attending the stage conference in London, Owen cited the implementation of a new complaints system, practice management guidelines for chambers, and the development of new technology as evidence of the Bar being […]
A FORMER solicitor who was jailed in 1992 for mortgage fraud is leading a drive to set up a new pro bono service after his time in prison convinced him of the need for more free legal advice. Michael Davis is one of 12 volunteers attempting to set up the new group, to be called […]
A story in our 14 October issue on proposed Law Society moves to relax practice names referred to council member Angus Andrew as a partner at Osborne Clarke. Andrew is in fact senior partner at Camden firm Osbornes.
The Law Commission is recommending changes to the law to make costly court actions by shareholders faster and cheaper and to encourage alternative dispute resolution procedures. Shareholders who feel they have been wronged by the company in which they hold shares have at present only limited remedies – such as court action using the “unfair […]
In The Lawyer (28 October 1997) it was reported that Clifford Chance insolvency assistant Stephen Lansdown had moved to Dibb Lupton Alsop in Liverpool. In fact he has gone to Hill Dickinson, where he works as an assistant solicitor out of its Manchester and Chester offices.
Tite & Lewis, the firm tied to Coopers & Lybrand, has launched a recruitment campaign for corporate, finance and commercial property lawyers. However, it may face difficulty persuading people to join because of uncertainty over Coopers’ merger with Price Waterhouse (PW), which has its own law firm, Arnheim & Co. Tite & Lewis senior pensions […]
The Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC) has beefed up its rules in a bid to lure more arbitration work to the city state. Changes include allowing parties to conduct proceedings in languages other than English, empowering the chairman to choose arbitrators if parties cannot agree and allowing parties to opt out of using SIAC rules. […]
Keith Francis Carter, 63, admitted 1959, practising at material time on own account as Keith Carter and Co, London SW1 fined £1,000. He ceased practising in December 1996. Allegations substantiated that he failed to properly maintain written books of account and drew or permitted money to be drawn from client account in breach of accounting […]
A barrister who worked in Sarajevo as a legal advisor for Bosnia’s Human Rights Ombudsman will address a seminar on the subject. Barrister Jessica Simor of Monckton Chambers, who returned in August from a six-month spell of work in the country will join with the former Professor of Law at the University of Sarajevo, Dr […]