CITY firm Lovell White Durrant has just finished a major company flotation involving due diligence work in no less than 31 countries. Up to 50 of Lovells’ lawyers took part in the deal, and the firm worked closely with other firms around the world. Masterminded from Lovell’s London offices, and the Tenneco in-house lawyers in […]
The British Council’s European Lawyers scheme is being relaunched next week. For the first time in its 31-year history the scheme is being run in conjunction with the College of Law. The scheme takes place each year in London and Edinburgh and offers young European legal practitioners the chance to spend six months getting to […]
WEST End and City law firms have reported significant increases in their wage awards in a new legal salary survey. Forty per cent of London firms approached in the 1995 Michael Page Legal survey said they awarded staff wage rises of between six and ten per cent last year. In 1993 16 per cent handed […]
ICI has appointed a new general counsel. Michael Herlihy, currently taxation controller, will take up his new post on 1 January next year. He will be the company’s chief legal adviser with responsibility for ensuring the effectiveness of legal and company secretarial services throughout the group. The assistant company secretary Ken Rushton will become company […]
THE POLISH parliament appears to be back-tracking over plans to force foreign firms to transfer their capital to Polish lawyers or shut down offices in the country. Initial signs show the draft law, which has been before the parliament since late last year, will be altered to allow lawyers admitted as advocates or legal advisers […]
A proposal by the Trainee Solicitors’ Group could see the Legal Practice Course pared down and some of its content transferred to the training contract. In its response to the review of legal education conducted by the Lord Chancellor’s Advisory Committee on Legal Education and Conduct (ACLEC), the TSG says the LPC should be cut […]
David Thomas is a council member and partner at Lees Lloyd Whitely, Liverpool. Those who expected confrontation between the new president and the council at the September Law Society Council meeting were disappointed. Sweetness and light abounded, despite differences in opinion. The council recognised the new president has a democratic mandate and will consider his […]
The introduction of the Accident Line Protect Insurance scheme removes the problem of costs which had arisen on some cases, whereby the agreement had been signed prior to the availability of ALP. In your article, ‘Storm brews over Conditional Fees’ (The Lawyer 11 July), I was quoted as saying we had got around the problem […]
Over the past five years, we have examined the bank statements of more than 70 solicitors and small businesses, and have saved them over £1 million. These savings come from three main sources. First, the contract with the bank, usually in the form of an arrangement letter, is often ignored. Unless the law firm has […]
London firm Gregory, Rowcliffe & Milners has amalgamated with the partnership of Pettit & Westlake to form a specialist private client and litigation practice. Partners Peter and Morwen Pettit have taken their staff to the 1 Bedford Row offices of Gregorys, which will remain as the practice name. Gregorys has strong international links with an […]
THE CROWN Prosecution Service is to be pressed to join a court offensive against gangs which control prostitutes’ advertising on cards placed in telephone boxes. Westminster Council will urge the CPS to follow its initiative using planning legislation against the “carders”. The move follows a warning that the council may have to curtail the number […]
As a solicitors firm heavily committed to providing legal aid services, we need an accessible bank which offers a wide range of banking related services at the lowest possible cost. Like any business, we also need to earn as much interest as possible on all balances and to pay as little as possible for money […]