Legal recruitment specialist Charles Fellowes recently celebrated the opening of its Birmingham office with a visit by Sir Norman Fowler MP. The company moved to new offices following expansion of its staff numbers. Founded by Anthony Tompkins nine years ago, it has recently set up a human resources division to advise on specialist issues.
A two-partner London firm has set up a Marbella office a year after joining forces with a group of lawyers in Gibraltar. Ilford-based Cornish & Co hopes to tap into the large expatriate community in southern Spain by providing private and commercial client services. Pilar Rodriguez, who has experience in private and commercial law in […]
FIXED conveyancing fees are among a raft of measures proposed by the Hong Kong Law Society to secure the future of the colony’s legal profession. The proposals, announced on Friday, would allow lawyers to advertise services, improve the existing scale of conveyancing fees and ensure that lawyers pay interest on client money they are holding. […]
A judge has criticised the Law Society for letting a crooked solicitor continue to practise, leading to three charities being swindled out of nearly £100,000. Harvard Rose, 60, of Stradella Road, London, appeared at Southwark Crown Court last week, pleading guilty to three charges of theft. He had already been struck off and jailed for […]
THE BAR Council has complained to the CPS about reports from within the criminal bar and the judiciary that inexperienced counsel are being hired to prosecute serious criminal offences, particularly rape. The move has come as a result of a widespread fears that, while defendants are still being represented by the best silks, budget cuts […]
Two US firms have shot into the top 10 slot for mergers and acquisitions involving UK firms, while Ashurst Morris Crisp has reached the number five position, relegating Clifford Chance to number seven, according to Corporate Money’s deal value league tables for the first three quarters of 1996. Showing the US firms’ increasing share of […]
Two regional law firms have won a £30,000 award for a multimedia project designed to give clients access to legal information on CD-ROM and the Internet. Dennis, Faulkner & Alsop, from Northampton, and Tollers Solicitors, of Leicester, joined forces with management consultants Company Profiles Group, and information systems consultants, Ashton Court, to create a winning […]
Information technology played a critical role in Baker & McKenzie’s recent representation of a respondent in an international arbitration hearing. Part of the discovery event ually squeezed from the claimants was a ticket sales database which recorded important information about their sales activities. The database was disclosed in an unwieldy DOS format. We used Microsoft […]
The Home Affairs Committee is inviting interested parties to make submissions to its inquiry on freemasonry in the criminal justice system and whether any restrictions should be placed on membership of the freemasons by police officers, prosecutors, judges or magistrates. Submissions should be sent to the committee by the beginning of December.
Seven major brewers – Bass, Whitbread, Scottish and Newcastle, HP Bulmer, Taun-ton Cider, Carlsberg Tetley and Guinness – are seeking an injunction restraining Beer Barrels and Minerals (Wales), of Bridgend, South Wales, from melting down or disposing of aluminium kegs which they claim belong to them. They claim Beer Barrels and Minerals has come into […]
IBM is offering free seminars on its VoiceType Dictation speech recognition system over the next three months. For details of seminar locations, call 01705 49 22 49.
Lanier has launched a machine in the UK which it says offers true multitasking. The 1110 MFD can be used as a fax, copier, computer scanner and a Windows printer. Users can send faxes from a PC to print at 300 dpi resolution and scan documents into a PC. Papers can be scanned while others […]