A SERIES of leading law firms have announced their annual partnership appointments amid claims that the criteria they are looking for in their new partners have changed so that they must now be good managers as well as being good lawyers. Clifford Chance has appointed 22 partners this year, plus George Staple who returns after […]
Jeremy Paul Andrew Reichelt, 40, admitted 1983, practising as Jeremy Reichelt & White, Peckham, London SE15, suspended indefinitely and ordered to pay £917 costs. Allegations substantiated that he failed to deliver accountant’s reports subject to conditions imposed on his practising certificate and/or an accountant’s report confirming he had ceased to hold client funds. Tribunal told […]
A woman from Winslow in Buckinghamshire is being taken to the High Court in a dispute over a will. Timothy Trusted, of London SW1, has issued a High Court writ against Susan Fennell. The writ says Trusted is the sole proving executor in the last will of Eileen Muriel Trusted, late of Little Hoewyck, Fenhurst, […]
A leading IT and telecommunications lawyer says a growing number of clients are asking him to devise policies to protect themselves from legal actions resulting from the use of e-mail. Michael Chissick, partner in charge of Field Fisher Waterhouse’s IT and Internet group, said there were no current cases of alleged e-mail abuse in the […]
Urban regeneration and local government lawyer Carl Hopkins is leaving Nabarro Nathanson to join Lawrence Graham. Lawrence Graham’s senior managing partner Bill Richards said that Hopkins was invited to join the firm to help extend the its expertise in the area of urban regeneration and public administration.
East End firm Wallace Bogan & Co has lost a court battle aimed at preventing three of its former assistants from canvassing its clients. The Court of Appeal has ruled that the three, who wrote to clients the day after their gardening leave at the firm had expired, did nothing unlawful. Lifting an injunction placed […]
Charles Vernon, a US-qualified attorney, has joined the Bucharest branch of City firm Taylor Joynson Garrett, strengthening its presence in a region it sees as having “huge potential”. He joins from the Saudi Arabia office of US firm Graham & James, which is affiliated to TJG. He is the third expatriate lawyer in TJG’s Romanian […]
The list of silks is with us again. Once more, it is the same old story – few women and even fewer lawyers from an ethnic background. It is good to see that two solicitors have made the grade. But five women to 63 men is not so good. And there is only one new […]
A survey of in-house legal officers for multi-billion dollar US companies has revealed a 20 per cent increase in average pay for 1996, a rate which outstrips increases for any other group of executives in this sector and pushes their earnings through the one million dollar mark. The report, published by consultants Pearl Meyer & […]
National firm Eversheds is aiming to build one of the leading pensions practices in Europe with the appointment of Hammond Suddards pensions specialist Robin Ellison. Currently a consultant at Hammond Suddards, Ellison will join Eversheds initially as a consultant and will become a partner and National Head of Pensions at Eversheds later in 1997. He […]
Herbert Smith energy partner Mark Newbery is spearheading a legal attack on Stephen Littlechild, the director general of electricity regulation, on behalf of the 14 regional electricity companies (RECs) in England, Wales and Scotland. Herbert Smith was appointed to advise the RECs on implementing full competition by April 1998 in September this year. In a […]
Every lawyer is probably familiar with the European Working Time Directive, due to have been implemented by EU member states on 23 November 1996. The Press attention on the subject is hard to avoid. However, not all lawyers will be aware what precise form the UK regulations will take, as a result of the UK […]