* In the table of foreign firms in London (The Lawyer , 7 February), the entry in relation to Jones, Day Reavis & Pogue, should have read that the firm has four partners and 10 fee earners in its London office, none of whom are UK-qualified. The firm is not a multi-national partnership and does […]
The charity Disability Law Service, which gives free legal advice to people with disabilities, is on the look-out for computer operators’ chairs from law firms where they are no longer needed. The service recently moved to Bedford Row in London and needs the furniture for its staff. Contact Sally McLean on 0171-831 8031.
The Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP) will be four years old this July. During that period, STEP has experienced phenomenal growth. With a membership fast approaching 2,500, STEP is the fastest-growing professional body known. What is the reason for this extraordinary level of interest? First, STEP crosses a number of professional barriers, covering […]
Robin Geldard, well known in the Welsh business and commerce community, is retiring from the senior partner post of leading Welsh firm Edwards Geldard. He is being replaced by Rod Thurman, who joined the firm in 1976 after several years in the City and, before that, some time as a lecturer at the University of […]
The current state of the property market and the opening of trade borders is facilitating many forms of investment in the UK by foreign nationals. Commercial property offers respectable returns with a reasonable level of security for foreign investors. And efficient tax planning will ensure that the proceeds of sale or rental income can be […]
AROUND 200 members of the London branch of the Trainee Solicitors’ Group gathered in the Law Society’s common room on Tuesday last week to hear president Charles Elly speak. The first such meeting of its kind was hailed as a great success by London TSG spokeswoman Sara Chandler who welcomed Elly’s commitment to get out […]
A NEWLY merged firm has opened a satellite office in the Lloyd’s building for its insurance team which was hampered by having to work from the West End. Forsyte Saunders Kerman has acted quickly to set up an office in Lloyd’s for its expanding insurance litigation group headed by Michael Robin. When commercial firms Forsyte […]
A major conference at the end of this will month begin with a murder and end with a debate on the state of legal education. The Association of Law Teachers is kicking off its 31st annual conference with a pre-conference social event – a murder mystery dinner called Murder on the Ocean – at the […]
DISSATISFIED clients wishing to complain about their solicitors are unlikely to know how to register their complaint, according to research by the Scottish Office. Eight per cent of those questioned in an official survey said that they had been annoyed with the way their legal adviser had handled their case, and two thirds of these […]
THE LAW Society could face its first contested presidential election for decades following a council member’s announcement that he is considering a challenge to president elect John Young. Council member Martin Mears, senior partner with Mears Hobbs & Durrant, has threatened to break with years of tradition by standing against Young, the current deputy president. […]
Judge May’s comments in The Times about the courts’ adoption of information technology after the abandonment of a mortgage fraud trial, home in on a point often overlooked in the IT debate. The argument is usually conducted in terms of the increased efficiency that the new technologies bring through their ability to process, store and […]
An in-house legal team has been appointed at GMG Brands, the working title for the merged entity of Grand Metropolitan and Guinness. Roger Myddelton, group legal director and company secretary at GrandMet, becomes company secretary at GMG. Ken Mildwaters, director of legal services at Guinness, becomes general counsel and group legal director. Dave Scott, general […]