Lawyers in Leeds had a chance to question the Attorney General at the end of last month. Sir Nicholas Lyell took time out from campaigning in the local elections to discuss current legal issues with local lawyers. Among the concerns raised were the timescale for implementing Lord Woolf’s fast track proposals and why the Government […]
Trainee solicitors are invited to spend five months in Brussels with the Law Society of England and Wales and the Law Society of Scotland. The trainee will gain insight into the workings of European institutions and the best way to lobby them, as well as learning how European laws are made and the way they […]
If you thought the only students who left college and went on to become barristers are those with a rich father and who live a stone’s throw away from Lincoln’s Inn, you’re in for a surprise. Major changes are taking place in the way education and training for practice at the Bar of England and […]
Retail property lawyer Monica Blake has joined DJ Freeman as a partner in the property services department.
Nothing is as certain as change and the challenge for the legal profession is how we are to prepare ourselves for the uncertainties of the future. We live in a world in which solicitors are no longer guaranteed a job for life – and in which they no longer qualify once and for all time. […]
Carlton Evans, a solicitor in the corporate division of Linklaters & Paines, has been appointed to a two-year secondment on the Takeover Panel from the 7 May. He will replace Judith Shepherd, who completes her secondment on 31 May.
They researched, they wrote, they slept in sleeping bags – Guy Fitzmaurice on the men behind the latest in textbooks Catching up on those exam papers that you didn’t pass first time around can be a problem but that’s where part-time study comes in, explains Mick Kavanagh It sounds like the plot for an Eighties […]
Paul Graeme Emmott, 38, admitted 1989, practising at material time as Emmott Harrison, Wakefield, suspended for six months and ordered to pay £2,065 costs. Allegations substantiated he failed to keep properly written accounts, failed to comply with decision of Conduct Committee, failed to deliver accountants reports.Tribunal accepted he had not been guilty of dishonesty but […]
The Government Legal Service (GLS) organises teams of lawyers for over 25 government departments. It takes on about 8 trainees a year for central government and recruits two years in advance. All trainee places are based in London, with the exception of occasional opportunities in Customs & Excise in Manchester and the Welsh Office in […]
THE LORD Chancellor’s Department, which dominates the careers of so many, is facing a wind of change – or at least a strong breeze. The LCD is no longer simply a body administering the judicial system with responsibility for judicial appointments. It is now an increasingly politicised ministry dealing with fundamental and high profile changes […]
According to a number of practitioners, the regional PI and medical negligence Bar is “as good as anyone can find and solicitors sometimes come from London for high quality counsel”. The advantage for instructing solicitors is that the local Bar is “just around the corner”. Lawyers are looking for counsel who specialise rather than dabble […]
This week is a watershed for the Law Society. Solicitors have just received their ballot papers for the election of office holders. Last year a president was elected by just 18 per cent of the profession – it would be a tragedy if the decision was made again by so few people. It has not […]