A LEADING public law QC who is in the same set as the Home Secretary faces disciplinary action following his conviction on a drink driving related charge. David Hands QC was warned by magistrates at South Western Magistrates Court that he had only just escaped jail after he admitted a charge of failing to provide […]
The Solicitors Pro Bono Group is looking to raise “a significant sum of money” from within the profession to help it promote pro bono work. Chair Tony Willis, a partner at Clifford Chance, said the group’s newly-formed executive committee was looking at the question of funding and recruitment, and hoped to have a set of […]
Contributions to the Solicitors Indemnity Fund (SIF) may rise by 30 per cent following the discovery that previous contributions have been underestimated to the tune of £248m. The SIF admitted last week that it had failed to collect sufficient contributions from members over the past seven years, leaving it with a huge deficit. The admission […]
Nabarro Nathanson is top of a new AIM lawyers’ league table, compiled 18 months after the launch of the Alternative Investment Market. The table was produced by the AIM Guide Quarterly Update by adding up every firm mentioned in every company’s prospectus or admission document, whether it advised the company or the sponsor. If a […]
Odell v Olive – QBD 16 January 1997 Claimant: Joan Odell, 4Incident: Road traffic accident Injuries: Widow’s claim over death of motorcyclist husband who was involved in a head-on collision with car. Deceased, Bernard Odell, who was general manager of a shipping business, was conscious for some time after the accident prior to his death […]
FAMILY solicitor Madeleine Parker (pictured right), the former head of London firm Russell-Cooke Potter and Chap- man’s family department, has joined Sutton Coldfield niche matrimonial practice Benussi & Co. Parker, who is a member of the Solicitors’ Family Law Association’s children’s committee, joins Benussi & Co after leaving her former firm to settle in the […]
Conveyancing has come back to haunt the legal profession. The healthy growth of the property market, which should have been joyful news for all, comes in a poisoned chalice with the news that not only is estate agent Hambro Countrywide preparing to tackle the marketplace but the building societies are also looking at innovative ideas […]
Denton Hall has managed to limit the damage from a poaching attempt by US firm Morgan Lewis & Bockius of two of its highest-flying litigation partners. Leading fraud litigation lawyer Robert Goldspink is negotiating a reduction of his nine-month notice so he can make an early start at Morgan Lewis. His colleague, rising intellectual property […]
Mark Humphries was born in Bath on 5 February 1962. He is a solicitor-advocate and partner at Linklaters & Paines. What was your first job? Warehouseman at Marks & Spencer in Bath. What was your first ever salary as a lawyer? £3,300. What would you have done if you hadn’t become a solicitor? Become a […]
SJ Berwin advised on the establishment of car finance company On-Line Finance. Clifford Chance advised Merrill Lynch
Manches & Co acted for computer software developer Eidos on its £21.95m listing of 3 million American depository shares on Nasdaq. Lead underwriters to the offer were JP Morgan Securities and Volpe Welty & Company, advised by Linklaters & Paines. Norton Rose advised the Eidos sponsor Charterhouse Tilney Securities.
Tony Holland (The Lawyer, 7 January) comes up with a useful suggestion about funding access to justice through expenses insurance, but the problems are likely to be more difficult than he admits. In our system, the losing party pays the costs of the winner. There are sound reasons for this, but it does not sit […]