Linklaters & Paines and Freshfields are the main firms acting in the National Power recommended £2.8 billion bid for Southern Electric, the biggest yet in the industry. Linklaters’ team for National Power is led by Tim Clarke with corporate partner Patrick Rignell and competition partner Bill Allan. Freshfields team for Southern is led by partners […]
The Honourable Michael Kanne is a judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. The design of a courtroom must provide an environment which enables the proper discharge of the judge’s responsibility. This can be simply defined as insuring the fair administration of equal justice. The basic design principle is that […]
Bakers link up Baker & McKenzie, the world’s largest law firm has completed its international network system, connecting all 54 of its offices in 34 countries. The system, which is known as Bakernet, allows several thousand people to send documents around the world through its email link. This enables lawyer and client to work on […]
ACCOUNTANTS are losing out as the UK legal market undergoes a period of mobility. A study carried out by The Lawyer and Baker Tilly shows that dissatisfaction with accountancy services and increased merger activity among the legal profession has resulted in a growing number of lawyers taking their business elsewhere (see page 16). Last year […]
When a solicitor friend heard I was taking up the job of director of marketing at 5 Fountain Court he said: “It will be like trying to steer the QE2 in iceberg-infested seas, with 68 people at the helm, all having very strong and conflicting views about where to go.” “And,” he added, “the rudders […]
JOHN SIMON BASKER-VILLE CADWALLADER HOPTON, 61, admitted 1966 practised at material times with Messrs Davis & Co (First National Bank in-house solicitors), Sherringtons, of Edgware, and on his own account, struck off and ordered to pay £940 costs. Allegations substantiated he practised when no current practising certificate in force. ANDREW WILLIAM ARTHUR BARTLETT, of Preston, […]
A court listings service, available to all branches of the legal profession, was unveiled last week. The on-line service provided by Legal Information eXchange will be immediately available in London and will be available in the rest of the country by December. The listings, which have been part of a pilot scheme by LIX for […]
The High Court appears to be set for a new confrontation between the media and the law over reporting of royal leaks. A hearing is now pending in the Queen’s Bench Division for contempt proceedings over the Today newspaper’s publication of extracts from a book written by former Royal housekeeper Joyce Ann Berry (known as […]
The recent six-month jail sentence imposed on a Coventry man who refused to obey an injunction ordering him to give information about fellow members of a gang counterfeiting Coca-Cola and Schweppes drinks has been welcomed by lawyers who specialise in intellectual property. Mr Justice Lightman’s tough stance against Peter Pericleous in the Chancery Division of […]
A firm will not succeed in setting up a financial services operation unless it has full support from every partner and fee earner in the practice. Southport firm Carter Hodge’s senior partner Stephen Holmes said that all partners needed to be committed to setting up of a financial services department. If not the chances were […]
SOME of the top names in personal injury law have lined up in court for the start of the test cases which are being brought by nine miners against British Coal after they suffered “vibration white finger”. The hearing began last week into the men’s claim that they suffered from the condition after being exposed […]
BIRMINGHAM firm Herbert Wilkes faces a repair bill for thousands of pounds after its main office was vandalised by CND demonstrators who mistook it for the French Chamber of Commerce. The attackers daubed CND slogans and flung red paint 40ft up the front of the Grade II-listed building following France’s second nuclear test explosion last […]