City firms advising Credit Suisse will now be answering to a 29-year-old legal whizkid after the bank appointed its first in-house general counsel this month. Marcel Scheiner will have wide-ranging responsibilities in advising the bank as well as being the main point of contact for City firms on the external solicitors’ panel. He will monitor […]
THE EUROPEAN Parliament last week met to discuss proposed amendments to the Acquired Rights Directive after a preliminary report for members claimed planned changes to the text did not clarify the law. The report says changes put forward last year by the European Commission “at best introduce an element of legal uncertainty” into the employment […]
WASHINGTON DC firm Arent Fox Kintner Plotkin & Kahn is believed to be in crisis talks with its French associate Sokolow, Dunaud, Mercadier & Carreras only months after forming links with the Paris partnership. Arent Fox was last week expected to announce a decision to sever ties with the nine-month-old firm formed by breakaway lawyers […]
A SENIOR clerk who paid a solicitors’ cheque to chambers into his wife’s account was “lawfully dismissed” from his post at 9 King’s Bench Walk, the County Court has ruled. But Judge Anthony Diamond QC said the chambers of Ashe Lincoln QC was only entitled to use Nigel Coyne’s “dishonest” behaviour as grounds for the […]
RULES of accreditation for the proposed family law panel should be stringent enough to ensure the public is offered a choice of lawyers who are true specialists in the area, says the Solicitors Family Law Association. Association chair Nigel Shepherd, a partner in Manchester practice Lace Mawer, says there is a “very strong case” for […]
WESTMINSTER firm Radcliffes & Co is the mystery merger partner poised to join forces with London neighbours Crossman Block. The merger, due for completion by the end of the month, is expected to produce an enlarged firm under the name Radcliffes Crossman Block. News of the link-up comes one week after it emerged that talks […]
Bradford solicitor John MacLeod, ordered to pay £8,000 compensation for calling his secretary a “scrubber” and a “slag”, is planning to appeal against the industrial tribunal decision. Macleod says he intends to appeal against the nature of the decision and the size of the award.
DENTON HALL is acting for 14 leading football clubs and the organisers of the Premiership in a copyright battle against the publishers of a football magazine. They claim that the company behind Premier Mega-stars, LCD Publishing, used registered club names, badges and logos without first gaining permission. The Football Association Premier League says the firm, […]
THE SERIOUS Fraud Office worked on a total of 72 cases during the year from 5 April 1994 to 4 April 1995, says its annual report. Thirteen trials were concluded resulting in the conviction of 16 individuals and 15 defendants were acquitted. The workload was dominated by fraud on banks, financial institutions, and on creditors […]
The ABA conference will play host to the former chair of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff who will be speaking on ‘The management of crisis and change’. The former White House press secretary may impart useful information gleaned from a recent stint with President Clinton. As Clinton is aware, the media plays a dominant […]
CITY Italian specialists Mackenzie Mills has merged with its larger neighbour Withers in a bid to maintain its grip on its niche field. The merger under the Withers banner marks the end of a 13-year run for the firm set up by its senior partner David Mills. The new expanded practice at the Withers premises […]
Manchester Metropolitan University has conferred an honorary Doctor of Laws on Lord Woolf. The award, made last week, comes in recognition of the law reformer’s contribution to the development of the law and legal education. Nigel Bastin, head of the university’s School of Law, presented the award, saying Woolf’s inquiry into access to justice would […]