D J Freeman is on the look out for two senior media lawyers in a bid to boost its media operations. The City firm has created a new multimedia division, claiming the demand for media and telecommunications specialists is booming. The division will be headed by Tony Leifer, who previously led the firm’s company commercial […]
Ground-breaking work by Linklaters & Paines on the Trafalgar House bid for Northern Electric is likely to have laid down the technical legal path regarding further bids for regional electricity companies (RECs). The bid has gone to the Northern shareholders, who will decide on 10 March whether to accept the improved offer of u11 cash […]
BIDDLE & CO senior and managing partner Hugh Johnson has announced plans to hand over the firm’s leadership to younger blood with a brief to revamp the IT system. Johnson will relinquish his managing partner position, held since 1982, in June this year and his senior partner post in June 1996, when he will retire. […]
LOCAL authorities are increasingly looking to the civil courts to combat crime on their estates. Two councils have recently broken new legal ground by extending the scope of civil injunctions in order to keep trouble-makers at bay. Hackney has secured a county court injunction preventing an individual entering properties on an estate even though he […]
Dibb Lupton Broomhead’s head of pension law Sean Hand has left the firm’s City office in order to launch his own niche firm, Hand & Co. Hand’s aim is to provide a service to law firms which have no pensions law expertise to allow them to provide pensions advice to commercial clients. He proposes a […]
FLADGATE Fielder’s head of private client work Peter FitzGerald has switched to Wiltshire firm Wilsons. A second partner, also called Peter FitzGerald and his younger cousin, has left Fladgates to join the Salisbury-based practice which is building up its agricultural estates team. “I do not believe any private client, however wealthy, is happy with London […]
Penningtons partner Franco Bosi has switched from the firm’s City office to Basingstoke as part of a strategy to strengthen the
* Quill Computers has signed up four law firms for its accounting and time recording program. Kendall firm Powell & Sykes will be running the Laudit system on a single terminal; Hexham-based Nicholson Wood & Gregg is running this and a Quill database on its network; Coopers, a three-partner practice in Newcastle-under-Lyme, has bought the […]
COMPAS, the university-style clearing house scheme for pupillages, is creating a buzz around the Inns of Court, according to one of its chief promoters. So far, 12 common law sets have signed up to the Compas system, which aims to bring order to the current free-for-all annual pupil selection round. Christopher Purchas QC, of Raymond […]
John Malpas reports AN EX-BARRISTER is battling to force three judges to appear before an industrial tribunal to face charges that they breached race relations law when disbarring him. Rudy Narayan was disbarred in July 1994 following a Disciplinary Tribunal of the Inns of Court. He will take his case before a review hearing this […]
LAWYERS have hit out at a spate of misleading advertisements which suggest that unregistered properties are “unowned”. A number of solicitors have contacted HM Land Registry to complain after private clients were left thinking their homes were up for grabs. Peter Holt, a partner at Manchester-based Grundy Kershaw, says advertisements have given details of how […]
A BANKRUPTCY petition against Merseyside solicitor David Deacon has been has been rejected by the court. And now the founder of Liverpool firm Deacon Goldrein Green (DGG) has issued a writ against creditor NWS Trust for malicious presentation of the petition. Deacon, who left in 1992 when the partnership was dissolved, had argued that he […]