Leeds firm Booth & Co is once more believed to be in talks to join forces with Manchester-based Addleshaw Sons & Latham. Despite official denials from Booth & Co, rumours persist that the two firms will ally and that Manchester IP specialist Vaudreys may later form part of a three-way merger. Booth & Co and […]
London firm Llewelyn Zietman has appointed its fifth partner, professional negligence expert Duncan Mcnair, who joins from Stewarts. Mcnair who was formerly with Lovell White Durrant and also has experience in the banking sector, will be a litigation partner at Llewelyn Zietman.
Compulsory competitive tendering may not have been taken up in local authority legal circles but then it may not have been given much of a chance, say Stephen Cirell and John Bennett Compulsory competitive tendering of local authority legal services has again been thrown into confusion by the results of a review by the Department […]
Recent victories by local authorities over banks have left their mark and may result in tighter controls, believes Roy Ambrose In recent months, attention has been focused on a handful of cases brought by banks against local authorities that have borrowed money from them. The authorities won, but the critics say the law is too […]
Conveyancers were told last week they could choose between suicide, bankruptcy or a change of career – unless they changed business practices. Speaking at the Solicitors Property Group (SPG) talks, “Survival in the high street”, former vice-president of the Law Society Robert Sayer painted a picture of doom for the future of the conveyancer. He […]
Manchester law firm Donns has opened its unique office inside the Hope Hospital in Salford. Three staff have been recruited and senior partner Raymond Donn (pictured on left with hospital trust chair Peter Mount) said the office would provide staff and patients with legal advice covering “everything from conveyancing to personal injury”. He added: “We […]
Former Law Society director of management planning Jane Hern – whose job was abolished by the internal shake-up of new secretary general Jane Betts in August – is expected to announce her plans for the future early this week. Hern has been offered the new post of director of policy or the option of taking […]
Hewitson Becke & Shaw is opening a new investment services unit, having recruited pensions expert Andrew Lowin from market leader Cripps Harries Hall. Lowin is already at Hewitsons offering corporate pensions management and advice and the firm is “actively” looking for a fund manager to head the private investor portfolio arm, plus a settlements manager. […]
Edge & Ellison has appointed Sir Ronald Hadfield, former Chief Constable of the West Midlands Police, as a consultant to the firm to oversee training and people management. Digby Jones, senior partner, disclosed that Hadfield is one of several non-lawyers who will be appointed as consultants over the next 12 months. He said:”It is our […]
Over 700 of the world’s most senior law officers and government officials are in Cambridge this week for a six-day conference aimed at combating the threat to business and political stability caused by corruption. The symposium at Jesus College is organised jointly by the college, the Centre for Information and Documentation on Organised Crime, the […]
Solihull firm Beedham Rowe has appointed an ex-Norton Rose man as a partner. Christopher Britton-Powell, a former international corporate finance lawyer at the City firm, joined from Leamington Spa firm Blythe Liggins earlier this summer.
Three separate pilot fast-track schemes are being launched next month in a bid to speed up civil procedure and reduce costs in the wake of the Woolf report. As from 1 October, 23 family courts will be running the family law ancillary relief procedure pilot scheme, which applies to all ancillary relief applications made on […]