The international scene has livened up considerably this month with talk of a fresh wave of transatlantic mergers and high profile links. Rumours that Freshfields and US firm Davis Polk Wardell are getting together have been circulating for a long time, although both firms have strongly denied the rumours. Slaughter and May has also figured […]
Richard Smith has headed the property department of Nicholson Graham & Jones for six years and remains head of property at the enlarged firm following its recent amalgamation with Brecher & Co. Born in 1952 in Surrey, he now lives in Teddington, Middlesex. What was your first job? Washing my father’s car for sixpence. What […]
City firm Rosenblatt advised in property deals for McLeod Russel Holdings and UNO Upholstery Superstores. The firm acted in McLeod Russel’s £3.13 million sale of its remaining residential portfolio to Bradford Property Trust, advised by Hammond Suddards. The firm’s two deals for UNO include a 40,000 sq ft unit in Salford and a 55,000 sq […]
Write to: The Editor, The Lawyer, 50 Poland Street, London W1V 4AX, Fax 0171-734 0534 The enormous increase in the cost of civil litigation means that most individual clients – and many private companies – are unable to afford to start legal proceedings or are unwilling to risk the financial cost of losing, particularly in […]
The Bar Council is currently in the process of implementing a wide-ranging agenda for self-reform designed to create a progressive and dynamically-structured profession fit for the 21st century. That process has included proposals for a new complaints system to tackle poor professional standards and moves to broaden access to the Bar Vocational Course through a […]
The number of trainee solicitors who come from foreign backgrounds is increasing. That is the message delivered by Richard King, head of legal education and training at City-based firm Herbert Smith. At Herbert Smith and other leading City firms with an international bias around 5 to 10 per cent of trainees come from foreign backgrounds. […]
A drawn out legal battle over the tenancy status of market operators at Wallasey Market Hall has now turned into a major test case. The row between operators Graysim Holdings, one of the country’s longest established private market operating companies, and property owners P&O Property Holdings has reached the House of Lords where judgment is […]
Nottingham Trent can be justifiably proud of being the only institution in the country to have been graded ‘excellent’ by the Law Society for its Legal Practice Course.The fact that its law department only received a ‘satisfactory’ rating from the Higher Education Funding Council has led some to complain that the whole assessment process is […]
WRITS Westminster firm Winckworth & Pemberton has struck a serious blow for the church authorities which are plagued by beggars. The problem is one facing many churches, which find their Christian charity stretched to its limit. However, the outcome of High Court moves by two Essex churches leaves no doubt that the law will back […]
Eversheds in Norwich acted for Nursing Home Properties on its admission to the Alternative Investment Market.
Ashurst Morris Crisp advised Hill Samuel Bank
As the brainchild of Michael Spencer QC and Christopher Purchas QC, Compas was the long-awaited pupillage clearing house scheme, devised to prevent the huge duplication of work chambers and students face during pupillage selection. The 11 chambers eventually involved in the scheme were also saved the arduous task of sifting through a large number of […]