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The Society of Black Lawyers has confirmed that OJ Simpson defence lawyer Johnnie Cochran will be speaking at a conference on 18 November. The high profile attorney is set to speak at the Commonwealth Institute and later that day at the SBL’s West Midlands chapter meeting. Tickets for the Birmingham events can be obtained from […]

The Solicitors European Group has chosen York as the site for its annual conference next year. The event, to be held on 7 and 8 June, will address issues of growing importance to EU lawyers, such as the implications of EU law and policy for the IT industry and regulated industries. Speakers from across the […]

FLEDGLING multinational partnership (MNP) LeBoeuf Lamb Greene & MacRae has boosted its ranks with the signing of Morgan Grenfell International deputy chair David Suratgar. London-based Suratgar has resigned his appointment as of counsel to San Francisco’s Morrison & Foerster and Paris firm Salans Hertzfeld & Heilbronn. He took up a similar post with the new […]

London firm Speechly Bircham has named finance partner Mark Musgrave as successor to managing partner Mervyn Couve. Musgrave, currently a partner in the firm’s private client and charity department, starts in his new role on 1 November. Couve, who steps down after four years, will act as deputy managing partner. He remains as head of […]

DAVIES Arnold Cooper is the only law firm to appear on a roll call of the UK’s top 100 companies of the future. The City firm joins the likes of Marks & Spencer, British Airways, BT and ICI in a study by the Corporate Research Foundation just published by McGraw-Hill. Under the DAC entry, the […]

Avon County Council has withdrawn an appeal to the House of Lords over a court decision which ruled it had been discriminatory in the awarding of contracts. A tenderer had used judicial review to challenge the award of a waste disposal contract to a competitor. The High Court upheld the council’s decision but the Court […]

ANTHONY Salz, the high profile head of Freshfields’ corporate department, is to become the City firm’s new senior partner. Salz takes over from John Grieves, who is due to retire. Grieves has been a partner at the firm since 1964 and held the top job for the last five years. The firm says that the […]

A LEADING criminal lawyer has warned of dangers posed by new police crime-fighting techniques. Tony Edwards, president of the London Criminal Court Solicitors’ Association, has called for a code of conduct to protect against abuses of a new generation of sophisticated detection methods. Surveillance work, the use of informants and the practice of targeting, where […]

Maclay Murray & Spens has been the main sponsor of the Royal Scottish Academy for nearly ten years. We are also involved in the sponsorship of events in the Edinburgh International Festival, such as the 1994 production of Torquato Tasso and the International Book Festival. Two years ago, the firm sponsored the exhibition of Degas […]

THE POLICE and the Law Society have for the first time agreed to hold regular meetings in an effort to co-operate over criminal justice issues. The meetings, which began on Friday, are an attempt to find common ground on issues like disclosure and the right to silence. They follow a public slanging match last spring, […]

THE ASSOCIATION of Personal Injury Lawyers has done its best to resist the temptation to gloat. But the group is delighted at its success in breaking the deadlock between the Law Society and the Bar Council over conditional fee model terms of engagement for counsel. That breakthrough, reported in last week’s issue of The Lawyer, […]