City firm Watson Farley & Williams has lost its second partner this year to the banking and finance markets group at Denton Hall. Neil Cuthbert, a partner with Watsons who was with the firm for 12 years, joins leading banking lawyer Geoffrey Wynne, who moved to Denton Hall at the beginning of the year. Cuthbert […]
Banking specialist David Dannreuther, formerly of MW Cornish & Co, has joined City firm Withers as a partner. Head of Withers’ banking team, David Mills, said: “David’s arrival is another demonstration of the firm’s long-term commitment to its corporate and banking work, which has doubled in the past two years.” MW Cornish & Co has […]
The 200-member British Israel Law Association is organising a trip to Israel at the end of June. About 40 are expected to go on the four-day visit, which will feature visits to Israeli law firms, business briefings, lectures and a tour of the Supreme Court. For further information, contact Richard Schiffer, of Zellermayer Pelossof & […]
A cable telecommunications system for barristers is due to be launched in July. The planned network is the result of long negotiations between the Bar Council and several suppliers. The system, which can be used for ordinary phone calls, will also handle video-conferencing and other online services as they become available, such as court listings […]
Foreign lawyers in Bangkok have expressed concern at a new draft consultancy paper which, if enacted in legislation, could see foreign practices restricted. The draft was prepared by local lawyer Khun Chavalit, a partner in International Legal Consultants Thailand (ILTC), on behalf of local lawyers. Chavalit was unavailable for comment as The Lawyer went to […]
Commercial chancery set Enterprise Chambers has opened an annexe in Newcastle to take advantage of a flurry of legal activity in the city. Its move comes as sources say there is now a greater than 50-50 chance that Eversheds and Newcastle firm Wilkinson Maughan will merge. Head of chambers Anthony Mann QC said the set […]
This week the question of whether or not the compulsory minimum salary for trainees remains will be debated by the Law Society’s council. It is an issue which the profession should take a positive interest in and support trainees, otherwise it will find itself in the position that only those who can afford to subsidise […]
Solicitors have once again given the Law Society the thumbs-down. In a damning indictment, a survey of its members accuses the society of unhelpfulness, poor treatment of its members and of paying too little attention to the views and problems of the profession. It also gives its governing body nuls points for its promotion of […]
Two sets of neighbours from Much Hadham, Hertfordshire, are heading for a High Court confrontation in a battle over an extension one of them plans to build. Matthew Hughes and Valerie Feuell are seeking court orders to prevent neighbours Rachel Locke and Toby Campbell-Gray from interfering with their plans and allegedly trespassing on their property. […]
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The Law Society is unfriendly, unhelpful, poor at promoting and representing the profession and does not listen to its members’ views enough, according to a survey of solicitors from various areas of practice. The survey of 1,120 solicitors in private practice, local and central government, and commerce and industry, was carried out for the Law […]
STALKING legislation and the protection of children were top of the agenda at Liberty’s first post-election law and order conference last Saturday. John Wadham, director of Liberty, said the purpose of the London conference was to ensure that justified concerns about crime and the “spat between the two political parties over which was toughest on […]