Bristol firm Burges Salmon has been re-appointed to act as external legal adviser for English Heritage in the South West. The firm was first appointed in 1993, but as a quasi-governmental body English Heritage had to re-tender the work this year.
Nearly £3m has been provided by the European Parliament to help train lawyers and judges in the use of EU law. Ministers have approved the Robert Schuman action scheme which was designed to enable EU citizens to rely on European law by ensuring lawyers and judges are properly trained. The scheme will fund a number […]
Marie Stevens, the high-flying group legal affairs director of Ladbrokes, has been replaced by Steven Glick from electronics company Graseby. It is understood that Stevens resigned because she did not want to move from central London to new offices in Watford. Glick’s appointment comes as Ladbroke moves into the US hotel market, following a deal […]
Historically, Dutch firms have been reluctant to set up in London. But this view has changed with two firms – Nauta Dutilh and Trenite van Doorne – opening offices in the past six months. De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek was the first to arrive in the UK when it set up six years ago – and […]
US Firm Fulbright & Jaworski has added a high-profile partner to its office in New York. Lionel Hest joins the firm from Wall Street securities broker Gruntal & Co, where he was executive vice president and general counsel. Hest was also the corporate ombudsman and head of the Management Audit Committee. At Fulbrights, he will […]
Robert Roscoe, partner at Victor Lissack & Roscoe and the chair of the Law Society criminal law committee, was elected president of the London Criminal Courts Solicitors’ Association last week. Roscoe had been acting president since May, following the appointment of Robert Winstanley as a circuit judge. He said that the association, which now has […]
Teleworking increases productivity and profitability and is the way forward for law firms, according to Christopher Davis, chief executive of City firm Davis & Co. Speaking at the Telework UK ’96 conference in Docklands in November, Davis said teleworking was a key factor in reducing overheads because it liberates firms from the need for expensive […]
Six unions with legal connections have launched a Justice Forum designed to “unveil the full chaos that exists in the justice system”. The forum, which aims to coordinate the interests of those working in and using the justice system, says it will “maintain a watching brief” across the whole justice system and demonstrate the full […]
Lawyers from Clifford Chance, Herbert Smith, Goodman Derrick and Slaughter and May acted on one of the fastest transactions they had ever encountered when Carlton Television made a sudden £85m bid for Westcountry Television – and secured the company in a single day. Slaughter and May partner Stephen Cooke said he was instructed by some […]
Leading Bermudian lawyer, Saul Froomkin QC publicly called for an end to bank secrecy laws and “shell” banks in offshore jurisdictions when he visited London last week. The former Attorney General of Bermuda and senior partner at the Bermudian law firm Mello Hollis, Jones & Martin told delegates at Shorex Conference of Offshore Services that […]
I read Tony Holland’s article “The Law Society must face its responsibilities” (Viewpoint, The Lawyer, 19 November) with great interest. While I was relieved to find that there was someone in the higher echelons of the legal profession who expressed concern about the plight of the many hundreds of unsuccessful candidates, I found that his […]
Lawyers acting for John Norton, who last week took the Home Office to the High Court over its decision to end the early release of prisoners under the 1967 Criminal Justice Act, are still waiting for the court to give its reasons for finding against him. The Divisional Court rejected Norton’s application for judicial review […]