Fraud and how to spot it is the subject of a book published by accountancy firm KPMG. ‘Fraud Watch: A guide for business’ is filled with real-life examples. KPMG wrote it in response to a request from the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, says institute president Roger Lawson. Ian Huntington, co-author and […]
WIN A BOTTLE The Lawyer is awarding a fine bottle of Jameson’s smooth whiskey for the best letter published on this page each week. The winner is marked by the picture of a bottle of Jameson’s. You carried an article in the 24 January issue of The Lawyer about NHS Trust legal panels. Some of […]
Former McKenna and Co solicitor and intellectual property specialist David Llewelyn is the founder of new City firm Llewelyn Zietman. He was born in Warrington in 1956 and now lives in London. What was your first job? On a production line packing 24 cans of Heinz baby food into boxes. It made me determined to […]
Lynne Curry finds that despite the impact of CCT and structural changes, local government lawyers still have a part to play Twenty years ago a lawyer who opted for a career in local government knew the score. The starting salary would be respectable, the security impeccable, the pension handsome. Even if high office was not […]
JANET Humphries has been appointed group legal adviser for Birmingham-based Kalamazoo Computer Group. According to the specialist computer solutions and print systems supplier, she will play a major role in an aggressive acquisition programme planned for 1995. Humphries took up her new post, heading a team of four in-house lawyers, at the beginning of January. […]
MEDIA lawyer Tony Morris this week joins specialist firm Marriott Harrison from City lawyers Cameron Markby Hewitt. Morris, who was head of the multi-media team in the intellectual property department at CMH, believes the future for specialist lawyers is in niche practices. “It’s quite difficult to be part of a small department at a big […]
Herbert Smith, which issued a libel writ on behalf of Irish businessman and lawyer Tony O’Reilly over an article published in the magazine Business Age, has become the target of a defamation writ issued by the firm’s publisher Tom Rubython. Rubython claims the firm, which issued writs against both him and the Evening Standard, libelled […]
City lawyers and professional indemnity (PI) insurers warn that many independent financial advisers (IFAs) could face liquidation as a result of the potentially huge claims resulting from the mis-selling of personal pensions. The most immediate concern for IFAs is whether they will be able to cover potential losses on their PI insurance policies. The signs […]
UK-BASED McKenna & Co has announced a raft of changes to its international practice, including the closure of its Tokyo office. The office, which opened in October 1987, will close in spring and its resident head Leo Simpson and solicitor Andrew Levy will return to London where the firm operates a substantial Japanese desk. The […]
National firm Eversheds has appointed Fiona Inchbald to the newly-created post of national director of marketing. Inchbald, who worked as marketing services director with accountancy firm Levy Gee prior to her appointment, joined the firm last week. Her responsibilities include developing national marketing campaigns and building the national profile of the firm, which recently merged […]
LONDON barrister Margaret McCabe has signed leading lawyers as speakers at a controversial conference on sex discrimination. The Lord Chancellor will provide the keynote address at the 8 April conference – ‘The Woman Lawyer: Benefit or Burden?’ – also involving Law Society President Charles Elly and Bar Chairman Peter Goldsmith QC. McCabe, a civil and […]
A MANCHESTER-BASED barrister who was expelled from his chambers is now suing the head of chambers and other members, claiming they conspired to damage his business and reputation. In a writ issued at the High Court in London by Pannone & Partners, Jonathan Capp, of Windermere in Cumbria, is suing fellow barristers John Bailey, Monica […]