LINKLATERS & Paines senior partner, Charles Allen-Jones, is to head a new Law Society working party which aims to encourage ties with the Far East. The group will support law firms already established in the the region and encourage others to tout for business there. It will concentrate on Malaysia, The Philippines, Indonesia, Taiwan, Hong […]
AT ONE stage during the installation of the Law Society’s new computer system, the travel budget of its London-based technicians ran out. This meant they were unable to travel to the society’s Redditch office, where those using the troubled Regis computer system were based. Instead, staff at Redditch had to make the arduous journey to […]
A specialist debt recovery firm is marketing itself to potential clients as having a proven track record in enhancing companies’ relationship with debtors. Uxbridge-based 11-partner practice Turberville Woodbridge describes the service as being particularly suitable for firms that have an on-going contractual or service agreement with the debtor. The firm won a three-year contract, employing […]
Insolvency specialist Tim Pope has been recruited by Hammond Suddards from Dibb Lupton Broomhead, where he was a senior partner. Pope joins partner and national head of Hammonds’ insolvency department Stephen Gale in the London office, which now numbers six licensed insolvency practitioners. According to Pope, the department is still recruiting “but below partner level […]
MORE than half the CPS’s staff believe they are not treated with fairness and respect, according to a survey carried out by the service’s senior managers. The survey, which has been distributed among staff, pre-empts a major poll to test the opinions and morale of the service’s lawyers which is being conducted by the CPS […]
Garrett & Co is planning to head-hunt senior banking and finance lawyers from rival firms, following the recruitment of former Baker & McKenzie partner Peter Richards-Carpenter to head its new financial markets department. Richards-Carpenter was previously head of Baker & McKenzie’s financial services regulatory and custody banking practices in London. He told The Lawyer: “We […]
Paris firm Simeon & Associes is to set up a tripartite office in Brussels this month with Frankfurt firm Wessing Berenberg-Gossler Zimmermann Lange and Brussels firm Liedekerke Wolters Waelbroeck & Kirkpatrick. The move comes three years after the collapse of the French firm’s international alliance with City firm Macfarlanes. As well as operating an EU […]
Leeds firm Booth & Co has continued its policy of financial openness by publishing details of partners’ minimum salaries in its annual review. The 41-partner practice’s previous review broke new ground by publishing the accounts of a solicitors’ practice for the first time. But as well as detailing Booths’ 1995 to 1996 profit and loss […]
Herbert Smith has set up a pharmaceutical and healthcare group which pulls together the existing expertise of seven partners. But the partners will not concentrate entirely on this area of law, said associated partner, Bill Moodie. Clients include Boeghringer Manheim, Hoffman Laroche and some work for Zeneca. The group will be touting for work among […]
The issue of judicial independence has been in and out of the headlines all summer as politicians and judges have wrestled over how much discretion the judiciary should have in sentencing. Of course, on the world stage, judicial independence is not always a question of such legal niceties. It is no exaggeration to say that […]
RULES governing solicitors’ property groups may be relaxed by the Law Society to help the profession’s struggling conveyancing lawyers. Next week’s Law Society council will vote on measures to try to emulate the hugely successful Scottish property groups that have helped solicitors win a big slice of the property market from estate agents. Among the […]
The Department of Trade and Industry has published a consultative document containing proposals to change the law on disclosure of directors’ shareholdings. The DTI had received representations from both the London Stock Exchange and from company directors that the current disclosure provisions were too onerous. The proposals in the document aim to lessen the burden […]