A LORD Woolf issues paper on fixed costs has been condemned by the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers as “plumbing the depths of unreality”. Apil president Michael Napier has launched a scathing attack on the paper by Oxford academic Dr Adrian Zuckerman and put out by Lord Woolf for consultation in January. The paper blames […]
In 1991 the Lord Chancellor’s Department proposed to extend the standard fee regime, which covers the majority of trials lasting up to three days, to cover all trials up to and including five days in length. If accepted this would have covered an even wider spread of cases in which no allowance would be made […]
The US government will next week attempt to throw out an application for $35 million compensation from Isle of Man tax solicitor Patrick Taylor. Taylor is claiming the money on the grounds that a CIA agent, the late John Savage, was involved in a complex investment scheme which led to his firm, Monarch Assurance, losing […]
Prominent US lawyer Stephen Meyers, of New York firm Jacoby & Meyers, has died at the wheel in a car accident in Connecticut. Jacoby & Meyers was the first US law firm to advertise its services, despite concerns expressed by traditional law firms and American Bar associations. The firm targets middle-income earners who traditionally have […]
I have seen a copy of your article (The Lawyer 26 March) indicating Merton is looking for a new solicitor to head its Legal Services Department. However, your article is incorrect in stating that Peter Large has left us, and it follows that he has “gone to do his own thing”. Peter is still employed […]
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Hammond Suddards advised sports goods manufacturer Umbro UK in connection with its recent kit and products sponsorship agreements with Manchester United football club. The “substantial” sponsorship will run until 2002. Manchester United was advised by James Chapman & Co.
Pinsent Curtis acted for Bradford Property Trust in relation to its $20 million private US placement of shares arranged by NatWest Markets. The investors were advised by Hebb & Gitlin. Chapman & Cutler was the trust’s US counsel.
Stephen Macliver has left Grant Thornton’s legal consulting division, The David Andrews Partnership, to return to his native Australia. The move, which results from family commitments, comes after a nine-year association with the organisation, founded by David Andrews in 1987 but more recently a part of Grant Thornton following a merger in 1995. Andrews said […]
The Bar’s clearing system for trainee barristers has received the seal of approval from chambers and law colleges throughout the country. Details of the workings of the scheme – the Pupillage Applications Clearing House (PACH) – were discussed at a meeting organised by the Bar Council on 23 April. The meeting, attended by representatives of […]
London firm Stallards claims to be the first English firm to establish a permanent representative office in the Caribbean. The new one-man office, situated in Barbados, will advise on English law affecting shipping matters in the Windward Islands, the Caribbean Basin, and Central and South America. English lawyer Rupert Steer left the London office of […]
Two top flight City lawyers are leaving their law firms to join merchant banks. Tim Freshman, corporate partner at Slaughter and May, is moving to Jardine Flemming in Hong Kong. Mark Harding is leaving Clifford Chance to join UBS, the Swiss banking giant which took over UK broker Phillips & Drew in 1985. Freshman, 51, […]