Medium-sized and small firms are not investing enough in practice management, says a survey by Otterburn Legal Consulting. The survey found that many medium and small firms were yet to appoint a managing partner and that not enough time was spent on practice management. It revealed that most firms expect their senior partners to combine […]
A stock Exchange review of its nominated advisers for the Alternative Investment Market (Aim) is causing investor jitters, but it is unlikely to affect long-term confidence in the market, say city analysts and lawyers. Last week restaurant group Greenhills was suspended when its nominated adviser, Neill Clerk Capital, (an Aim-listed company hived off from Scottish […]
London-based ICO Global Communications has appointed Stephen Guerin as senior vice- president and general counsel. Guerin, who will lead the company’s three-person legal team, will be responsible for contractual intellectual property and regulatory issues for the global mobile satellite-communications business. Guerin, from France, joins the company after a 14-year career with Alcatel Alsthom, most recently […]
Garrett & Co celebrated its third birthday last week. Robert Lindsay looks at how the link with Arthur Andersen has worked When Arthur Andersen appointed Colin Garrett to set up the first British law firm associated with an accountancy firm, Garrett told The Lawyer nervously: “I think there is some danger that this move might […]
Solicitors should take extra care to deflect approaches from advance fee fraudsters, Paul Pharoah, chair of the Law Society’s compliance and supervision committee has warned. Pharoah told last week’s council meeting too many solicitors were acting for advance fee fraudsters, and this was putting unnecessary pressure on the Solicitors’ Compensation Fund. The fraud involves money […]
The French government looks set to make an eleventh hour bid to scupper the move to introduce rights of establishment in the European Union. France wants a unanimous vote, not the usual majority vote, at the council of ministers to pass the draft directive on rights of establishment, which has been approved by the European […]
Top London law firms are heading for a high-profile Brussels conference next week which will discuss managing economic transition in central and Eastern Europe. Nick Holt, of Weil, Gotshal & Manges, will talk about the priorities for change in the legal systems of the transition economies, while Jeremy Carver, of Clifford Chance, and Elena Kirillova, […]
It is surprising that a year after US firm White & Case set up an office in Johannesburg, no US or UK law firm has followed suit. Peter Finlay, partner with overall responsibility for South Africa in White & Case’s London office, says: “Every firm has different aspirations. We have a track record of commitment […]
A former book-keeper at shipping law practice Zaiwalla & Co stole £40,000 from the firm, forged the senior partner’s signature to open a bank account, and gave a former employee £1,800 without permission, a tribunal heard. The Solicitors’ Disciplinary Tribunal has banned Brian Brown from being employed in the profession without Law Society consent. Brown, […]
THE DISCREPANCY bet ween the routes barristers and solicitors have to take to win rights of audience amounts to discrimination, say two senior City solicitor advocates. Mark Humphries, of Link laters & Paines, and Richard Slowe, of S J Berwin & Co, are to present a proposal to the Solicitors Association of Higher Court Advocates […]
Arthur Andersen is setting up a law firm in Hong Kong to be headed by Garrett & Co litigation partner Justin Ede. The company has not yet decided if the Hong Kong law office will be a branch office of Garretts or a separate firm within Andersen’s international legal network. Ede is currently working in […]
Shipping finance expert Jeremy Watson has left the Pir aeus office of Norton Rose to take up a post at Holman Fenwick Willan’s office in the city. Watson had been with Norton Rose for the past four years, where he specialised in shipping finance. He has lived in Greece for the past two years. “Jeremy […]