Ten years ago it would have been impossible to have set up a successful practice on your own without a full time secretary/receptionist (and the accompanying burdens of Paye and national insurance), a minimum of two offices and probably also a small conference room for meetings. However, recent technological developments and the introduction of the […]
COMMERCIAL Law Affiliates (CLA), the world’s largest international law firm network, has increased its numbers with the addition of 10 more firms, including its first members in Africa. The African firms are based in Johannesburg, Capetown and Lagos. Minneapolis-based CLA now has 181 member firms in more than 60 countries on six continents. Its members […]
Harris Rosenblatt & Kramer has advised on a successful High Court action on behalf of Doug Douglas, the newly elected president of the Graphical, Paper and Media Union. Douglas took the union to court when it backed an attempt to set aside its election ballot result. The Commissioner for the Rights of Trade Union Members […]
Lovell White Durrant has led a breakthrough for international insurance business in its advising of insurance company Yasuda Kasai in the first portfolio transfer involving six continental offices. Yasuda Kasai is a UK-based subsidiary of Kasuda Kasai Fire and Marine Insurance Company, Japan’s second-biggest insurer. The portfolio transfer is one of several options contained in […]
THE LORD Chancellor and senior judges have approved a package of anti-discrimination measures passed by the Law Society in October 1993. The measures, which include a new practice rule, a revised code of practice, and a model anti-discrimination policy, have been awaiting approval by Lord Mackay, four senior judges and the Lord Chancellor’s Advisory Committee […]
The Law Society has advised that to guarantee a place at any of its roadshows, solicitors wishing to attend should book in advance by writing to the Law Society’s Conference Office. The next roadshow is in Truro on 27 January.
Sussex firm Harper Daniel Wedd has split up. Partners Steve Wedd and Leona Daniel have formed a new firm Wedd, Daniel based in Brighton. Alistair Harper has formed Harper & Co based in Haywards Heath. Wedd says the partnership was dissolved following differences of opinion about how it should be run.
Legal warfare over compensation for up to one million people who were mis-sold personal pensions is hotting up this week, with a series of actions and a High Court challenge by the pensions industry to overturn guidance from the Securities and Investments Board (SIB). The pensions industry’s attempt to judicially review SIB guidance could delay […]
LINCOLN lawyer Gilbert Blades, who is challenging the courts martial system, has been questioning its fairness for the last 20 years. Blades has carved out a niche in defending servicemen and women, and has now presented a dossier of cases to the European Commission of Human Rights. He is arguing on behalf of Royal Air […]
City law firm Clyde & Co has agreed to pay a u20,000 out-of-court settlement to its former marketing manager, following claims she was sexually harassed by a partner. The firm settled with Julie-Anne Wildman who alleges she was harassed by her former lover, married senior litigation partner Christopher Gooding, after she ended their affair. Wildman […]
Lawyers and staff at City firm Berwin Leighton are mourning the loss of corporate partner Chris Latter who died on 13 January. The firm says the partner, who was 43, had been ill since Christmas following a major operation in the autumn. Latter joined the firm in 1986 and the firm says he will be […]
EIGHT equity partners of Deacon Goldrein Green (DGG) were made bankrupt last week and the firm was officially wound up, freeing liquidators to handle financial claims from the 200 former staff. The court hearing came just a week before the three-month deadline for claims under the Employment Protection Act. The Law Society confirms that the […]