Solicitors in Dundee are hanging their heads in shame. A law library at the court has had to be moved to a more secure home in the University of Abertay because so many books were being either lost or not returned. It was felt the electronic tagging system at the university library was the collection’s […]
Compulsory competitive tendering will be brought forward by six months in authorities not undergoing reorganisation, putting legal services on the market by 1 October 1997. Environment Minister Robert Jones says his department sent a consultation paper to English local authorities which proposed bringing forward the implementation of CCT by up to one year from the […]
CITY solicitors are being offered the chance to work alongside other specialist sole practitioners in a customised solicitor’s chambers venture launched last week. The City Solicitors’ Chambers, in Mansell Street, is based on a similar venture also established by solicitor Anton Alexander five years ago in north west London. But the new operation, based on […]
More than 60 lawyers from across Europe descended upon Liverpool for the annual general meeting of The Association of European Lawyers, which was hosted by Liverpool law firm Lace Mawer. Presentations were given on quality management, investors in people and the qualities of Liverpool. Andrew Scorah, a partner at Lace Mawer, said: “The most valuable […]
The Warsaw office of McKenna & Co has poached five lawyers, including one partner, from neighbouring firm Nabarro Nathanson, in a move reflecting the current scramble for the best foreign lawyers in Poland. The departure of partner Stephen Shone and his team of four leaves Nabarros without any real estate specialists and reduces its number […]
TWO London franchise holders have been suspended by the Legal Aid Board after failing their first post-contract audits. Legal Aid Board chief executive Stephen Orchard says the firms now have three months to put things right or face the termination of their contracts. He says the suspensions will serve as a warning to other firms […]
ASPIRING solicitors and barristers may be sitting side by side in the same lecture room in less then three years’ time, according to the consultation paper on the ending of the Bar School’s training monopoly. The paper goes on to acknowledge that the future of separate vocational courses for solicitors and barristers may be limited […]
Over the last 10 years, the information manager’s time has been spent increasingly in evaluating products. Baker & McKenzie is swamped with telephone calls and literature on such products and their enhancements. Lawyers are not the only ones to wonder what happened to the paperless office. Continual evaluation is essential and the information manager has […]
* Southampton-based Moore & Blatch placed a u200,000 contract with Kienzle Systems for a system to run across a network of 52 PCs. The 14-partner firm is taking on the Arista practice management system with a Windows front-end. Kienzle has also sold a u175,000 system to Putney firm Evill & Coleman.
Ian Hunter is an assistant solicitor in the employment department of London law firm Fox Williams. Born in County Down, Northern Ireland, in 1961, he now lives in Fulham, London.
It was a great pity you could not give further quotes from the Judges’ Council response to the Home Affairs Select Committee in your edition of 28 March. The quotes given are far more entertaining than anything which has appeared in the Tulkinghorn column for years. We are told the system of monitoring and assessing […]
The Serious Fraud Office must feel it has been put through one of its own long investigations after the Davie and Graham reports. It has been acquitted, but the process will have been chastening. It is probably truer of the SFO than other bodies that there is no alternative. To have buried it in the […]