The merger of Dibb Lupton and Alsop Wilkinson has created ripples among law firms more for its novelty factor than for the perceived impact of such a merger on the profession. While there are obvious benefits for both firms, the major rationale would seem to be size. Most firms may be blase about its significance, […]
I was interested to see the Focus article on advocacy training published in The Lawyer 13 August . The College of Law strongly agrees that advocacy can be taught. We have found trainees making the same faults as those listed in your article and we have seen others which Michael Bowes no doubt also will […]
May I respond on behalf of the Law Society and its staff to the charge of no-can-doism levelled at us by Gerald Funnell in his letter in The Lawyer 27 August. If, as was suggested, the society was unhelpful in providing a lead for firms into this area, why did it establish the Solicitors Financial […]
Peter Watson was born in Greenock, Scotland, on 22 January 1954. He now lives in Glasgow and is a solicitor advocate at Levy & McRae. What was your first job? Delivering newspapers as a schoolboy. What was your first ever salary as a lawyer? £2,400 per annum. What would you have done if you hadn’t […]
Flexibility and sound planning are vital to doing business in Europe, according to participants at the American Corporate Counsel Association (ACCA) European Chapter conference held in Brussels earlier this month. Despite the depiction by Europhiles of the EC as a unified single entity, the conference highlighted significant barriers to cross-border business, such as lack of […]
The High Court is set to become the stage for a battle between two wealthy Arab rulers. Sheikh Khalifa bin Hamed al-Thani and his father, Sheikh Hamed bin Khalifa al-Thani, are reported to be on course for a major courtroom confrontation in London over billions of dollars of state money which Sheik Hamed claims his […]
TWO high-profile solicitors from very different legal fields have joined well-known chambers after deciding to transfer to the Bar. Stephen Cragg, the Public Law Project’s most senior solicitor, and Linklaters & Paines partner James Flynn are the latest solicitor converts to the Bar. Cragg has taken up a pupillage at the civil liberties set 2 […]
Admiral Legal Systems has won a contract to supply Legalmind, its latest practice management system, to Cheltenham firm Wiggin and Co. Wiggin and Co, which also has offices in London and Los Angeles, specialises in commercial, tax and media law and litigation. Graham Watts, director of finance at the firm, said he was looking for […]
BARRISTERS and their chambers are being targeted by a new legal banking centre set up by National Westminster Bank. The Law Courts Legal Centre has been established at the National Westminster Bank branch opposite the Royal Courts of Justice in The Strand. A section of the bank has been set aside for the centre, which […]
The Institute of Legal Cashiers & Administrators is now on the Web at http://www. cloudnine.co.uk/cloudnine/ilca home.htm. The site contains a register of job vacancies, details of training programmes and an advice service.
A man who was hit by a car last June after he fell into the road following a row outside a pub, is suing the driver of the vehicle, Scott Mills, of Collier Row, Essex, for damages. Andrew Hurrell, 33, who spent three weeks in hospital and is permanently incapacitated by nerve damage to his […]
Andrew Mark Jones, 31, admitted 1989, practising at material times as assistant solicitor with Toller Hales & Colcutt, Northampton, struck off and ordered to pay £548 costs. Allegations substantiated he wrongly drew and used client money. Tribunal told that Jones had misused at least £11,241 from his firm’s client bank account for the benefit of […]