City firm Richards Butler has made two of its partners group managers. Lista Cannon, who specialises in financial and banking work and is admitted to the New York Bar, is taken on as group manager of the commercial litigation group, while Christopher Jackson (pictured), becomes group manager of the corporate and commercial group. Both are […]
Belfast firm O’Reilly Stewart is this week campaigning to improve the hourly rate paid to Northern Ireland solicitors. Peter Smith QC will represent the firm in front of the Taxing Master, Christopher Napier, in a hearing of objections being held on Monday and Tuesday. The claim refers to fees for a senior partner from O’Reilly […]
The Irish court system looks set to be swamped by tens of thousands of couples seeking divorce when it is legalised this autumn. Divorce has been banned in the Republic for the past 70 years but at least 40,000 couples in the country have won judicial separations and no one knows how many of these […]
CONTRARY to first impressions, Burges Salmon partner Bob Smyth is not a shipping lawyer. But the head of the firm’s environmental unit was out to make a point when he set off to work in a rowing boat. To mark ‘Bristol Walk to Work Day’ recently, he and 44 other members of the firm resolved […]
THE DUTCH Bar is to receive the backing of Europe’s combined Bar associations in its battle with Price Waterhouse over the issue of multidisciplinary partnerships. Price Waterhouse has made a complaint to the European Commission that Dutch Bar rules which prohibit it from employing lawyers breach European competition law. The commission’s decision on the case […]
Berwin Leighton acted for Prudential, which sold its freehold interests in a number of units at Brackmills Industrial Estate, Northampton, to Equitable Life Assurance Society for £18 million. Equitable was represented by Denton Hall.
Bircham & Co acted for the IES Group on a placing and its admission to AIM. The placing valued IES at over £43 million.
Helen Sage reports The Local government lawyers’ group will not be endorsing any single candidate in the coming presidential elections but has urged the Law Society to salvage its public reputation after the elections. Peter Urwin, chair of the society’s local government group, said its executive had deliberated over which candidate to back but decided […]
With many highly regarded juniors having taken silk in recent years, opinion among leading solicitors is divided over whether or not there is a shortage of outstanding juniors. However, the consensus is that, given time, the next wave of juniors will soon make its mark. Adrian Whitfield QC’s set at 3 Serjeants’ Inn has a […]
Two international law firms have announced plans to open new offices in Europe. Stephenson Harwood intends to open an office in Piraeus, Greece, and Freshfields one in Milan, Italy. Stephensons’ office, when it opens in October, will be headed by newly-appointed Greek-speaking shipping partner Nigel Bowen-Morris. Bowen-Morris comes from the Piraeus office of Watson, Farley […]
City firm Watson, Farley & Williams is scaling back its ambitions in property as part of an internal re-organisation designed to sharpen the focus of its core activities. It is establishing four groups comprising banking and finance, shipping, litigation and corporate. There will still be a property department dealing with financing. “But,” said senior partner […]
Lawyers in Manchester returned to work amidst scenes of devastation last week, determined to keep business going as usual. Chambers on King Street and several firms sustained damage during the IRA bomb attack on 15 June. The Pall Mall office of Addleshaw Sons & Latham was closest to the blast and was so badly damaged […]