CHICAGO law firm Mayer Brown & Platt has recruited London-based Rogers & Wells partner Eric Bettelheim as a member of its derivatives practice. Bettelheim, who has worked in Rogers & Wells’ UK office since 1986, starts with Mayer Brown in London this week. The Mayer Brown move takes him to his fourth law firm since […]
The Bar School has agreed to work with the Commission for Racial Equality to reduce the disparity in exam success between ethnic minority and white students. As part of a joint agreement published this week, the Council of Legal Education, which runs the school, has agreed to undertake a research and monitoring programme to pinpoint […]
The prosecution in the fraud trial of solicitor Charles Julian Deacon begins its closing speech early this week, with the prospect of the jury being sent out by Friday. Deacon faces 11 counts in relation to a series of alleged advance fee frauds totalling around US$1 billion in promised loans, by which he allegedly obtained […]
SJ Berwin & Co and the European Commission in the UK will stage a series of six briefings on EU commercial policy and related issues during the next four months. The briefings, which start with a session on new directions in EU and competition law on 22 January, will be given by senior community officials […]
Attempts by life companies to stop litigation over the misselling of pensions scandal took a knock last week after plaintiffs won an important first round in court allowing them to sue while waiting for companies’ compensation reviews. The ruling affects around a million people thought to be due compensation totalling some £2 billion. Dozens of […]
PETER Carter-Ruck & Partners is urging the Legal Aid Board not to grant funding to the former Home Office forensic scientist who is taking legal action against the firm. Dr Frank Skuse, whose evidence helped secure the conviction of the Birmingham Six, won legal aid for a £1 million damages claim for errors he alleges […]
Dorman Jeffrey & Co acted for Ky-Lin Group in a £3.4 million start-up to create a UK clothing manufacturing capacity.
McKenna & Co is acting for Abacus Group on its merger with Polar
Pinsent Curtis advised The Bradford Property Trust on US$60 million derivatives deals with banks Barclays and NatWest.
THE INDEPENDENT Family & Mediation Panel will be launched by Conquest Legal Marketing at a series of free seminars in February. Launched exclusively to members of the National Solicitors’ Network in 1995 and now open to non-member firms, the Independent Family & Mediation initiative encourages the use of mediation in the divorce process by supporting […]
Five firms have taken part in a financial services video put together by the Solicitors for Independent Financial Advice group (Sifa). The video, which discusses whether and how to set up in financial services, features Kent firm Leigh Williams, Nottingham firm Gompertz Buckley, St Albans firm Pictons, Kettering firm Toller Hales & Collcutt, and Leeds […]
A SET of chambers has been accused of racial discrimination by a black tenant who claims it caved in to a law firm’s refusal to accept her services due to her “African sounding name” and then victimised her when she complained. Joy Okoye, a family expert of 14 years call, claims Brian Monument, the senior […]