Helen Sage reports The contents of the three volume ‘White Book’ – ‘The Supreme Court Practice 1995’, have been transferred to a single CD-ROM disc. Publishers Sweet & Maxwell commissioned Cascade Systems to produce a version of its Media Sphere software specifically for the digital version of the publication. The disc can be accessed by […]
Sir Philip Rose is a co- founder of City law firm Norton Rose. This month he features in the newly-published ‘A History of Norton Rose’ written by Andrew St George. He’s no longer with us, but if he was, he’d be 179 years old. What was your first job? Medical assistant to my father, 1833. […]
The change in the right to silence provision has led to a steep increase in the demand for advice by police station duty solicitors. Figures from the Legal Aid Board show a 21 per cent increase in requests for advice over the months of April and May. The new caution was introduced on 1 April. […]
Bradford Hildebrandt outlines the major issues facing the US legal profession in the 1990s and finds that there is much work still to be done before the arrival of the millennium As 1994 ended, most US law firms recovered from several years of flat or declining profits, painful downsizing that often reached partner levels and […]
Thirty five final year law students at Queen’s University, Belfast, claim they are being discriminated against by the Law Society of Ireland . The students have taken action in the Irish High Court, Dublin, alleging the society refuses to recognise a Queen’s law degree and insists they take a further exam before practising in the […]
MANCHESTER firm Addleshaw Sons & Latham has set up a pioneering unit to strengthen its expertise in the venture capital market. The section, headed by new partner Darryl Cooke, is one of only a handful of specialist venture capital units in the country. It will concentrate on advising both capital companies and their clients during […]
THREE in-house lawyers have lost their jobs after the team was disbanded following the £83 million sale of Burmah’s petrol retailing arm. Burmah Petroleum Fuel’s two solicitors and departmental head Nick Scott were not re-employed when the business was sold by parent company Burmah to the Frost Group. The blow follows a period of uncertainty, […]
City lawyers acting for Barings creditor groups are assessing the chances for litigation following publication of the ‘Report of the Board of Banking Supervision Inquiry into the Circumstances of the Collapse of Barings’. One lawyer acting for an action group of City institutions says the report raises the possibility for suing certain Barings directors, auditors […]
ENDING the Bar’s training monopoly must not pitch the profession into the same difficulties being faced by solicitors, Bar Council chair Peter Goldsmith has warned. Goldsmith issued the warning at a seminar in Holborn earlier this month to discuss the Bar’s proposals to end the Inns of Court School of Law’s monopoly of vocational training. […]
CENTRAL heating and showers are among the new facilities barristers in a newly merged chambers can enjoy since moving into their refurbished home. Fergus Mitchell’s 2 Dr Johnson’s Buildings set is an amalgamation of his former 3 Dr Johnson’s Buildings chambers and 4 King’s Bench Walk. The merger took place some time ago, but the […]
Anne Gallagher visits Chicago’s hotspots to see where lawyers will spend their spare time While that loveable urchin Oliver sings for food on London’s stages, Chicago restaurateurs and bar keepers are the ones preparing for an onslaught of 20,000 hungry and thirsty lawyers expected to attend the American Bar Association’s annual meeting from 4 to […]
This year’s ABA boasts a year of firsts with plenty of official and unofficial debates. Anne Gallagher anticipates the topics As the ABA annual meeting draws near, the association can boast of a new era. A woman president is poised to take the helm in August for the first time in the association’s 117-year history, […]