A £61,000 order has been placed with legal software developer Linetime by London firm Stafford Young Jones. The order from Staffords, a 12 partner practice, includes practice accounting and time recording, credit control, purchase ledger, database, Wordperfect word-processing as well as Dataflow case management and Context conveyancing, Linetime’s latest fee-earner support.
The £9 million divorce pay-off to Maya Flick, ex-wife of Friedrich Flick of the Mercedes empire, recently became public in the Appeal Court. The level of the highest ever award in ancillary proceedings by our courts has been an open secret among divorce practitioners for a long time. But the profession is now waiting for […]
The Berkshire Medico-Legal Society will hold its inaugural meeting at the Reading Holiday Inn at 6.30pm on 7 November. About 90 people are expected to attend the event, which will include talks from barrister Dr Margaret Branthwaite, secretary of the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers Roger Goodier, and Institute of Legal Executives president David Pipkin. […]
THE Government should fully research whether there is a need to restrict media reporting of industrial tribunals involving the disabled before actually going ahead with any proposals, warns the Law Society. The society has responded to a proposed amendment by the Department of Trade and Industry to procedural rules of industrial tribunals. The proposed changes […]
TOP construction lawyers Winward Fearon & Co have lost two partners and an assistant to SJ Berwin & Co’s growing building sector team. Julian Critchlow and Nicholas Carnell have moved across to form a four-partner unit headed by Ian Insley and Geoff Haley. They have taken assistant Zakir Mulla with them as SJ Berwin tries […]
A BARRISTER who specialises in insolvency work is being sued for £1.5 million by his bank. In a High Court writ, Lloyds Bank claims John Davies, of Colin Brodie QC’s 24 Old Buildings chambers, borrowed the money secured against a Westminster property. The writ, issued by Hammond Suddards, claims Davies had not repaid the money […]
Rather like Clark Kent’s transformation into Superman, the species once known as the locum solicitor has transformed itself into the freelance solicitor. Our super-hero is busy helping law firms provide a low-cost quality service to their clients without incurring huge overheads. And at the same time is pursuing a respectable alternative career to the wage […]
THE PRAGUE legal market is seeing increased activity as leading US lawyers switch allegiance to rival employers. In recent months a number of top US practices have suffered partnership losses in the Czech Republic, including Dewey Ballantine, White & Case and Squire, Sanders & Dempsey Earlier this year, Squire Sanders lost Jan Matejcek to White […]
Two women’s masonic organisations exist: the Honourable Fraternity of Antient Freemasons and the Order of Women’s Freemasons. They have a lodge system, rituals and rules which are identical to those for men. They do not mix formally with the men except on social events, although there is at least one mixed lodge. Joyce Arram, a […]
PHILADELPHIA’S Cohen Shapiro Polisher Shiekman & Cohen will shut down later this month after eleventh-hour merger talks failed to secure its future. The 66-lawyer firm, hit by a number of departures during the past 15 months, had hoped to link up with established international partnership Pepper Hamilton & Scheetz. Pepper Hamilton, which has 270 lawyers […]
A LEADING legal pressure group has lost one of its key staff members to the Legal Aid Board. In an unusual move Anne Grosskurth, policy officer at the Legal Action Group, joins the Legal Aid Board’s policy department. She will be working at a senior grade as policy adviser for the board under policy director […]
Freemasonry’s roots are ancient but poorly documented. However, historians can trace the organisation almost continuously back to the 16th Century. It evolved out of associations of stone masons who grouped together, possibly to control trade and help each other in times of hardship. Links with stonework remain. Masons believe in a Supreme Being, which they […]