THE TRAINEE Solicitors’ Group is supporting a proposal to hold admission ceremonies in regional centres as well as at Chancery Lane. The proposal – first raised by Law Society vice-president John Young – has recently been researched by the society. Its head of legal education Nick Saunders says a “prototype ceremony” will be held in […]
EXPENSIVE, cautious and reactive are the criticisms levelled at law firms working in the public policy sector by a selection of the UK’s top companies. A report by the NOP for clifford Chance reveals that companies believe lawyers need to become “more proactive and politically aware” if they are to realise their full potential in […]
SOLICITOR Michael Freeman will have to justify his total billings of more than u800,000 for work done for a Lloyd’s Names group following a Taxing Master’s order last week. The order was granted after the Oakley Vaughan Names Association issued an originating summons for taxation of the bills in May. Freeman had opposed the application. […]
The Young Solicitors’ Group is hoping to raise u25,000 in a charity quiz night in support of Shelter. The event, held during Shelter Week from 20 to 24 February, is the first charity programme organised by the 40,000-member group. YSG national committee member and Rawlins Davy partner, Paul Verlander, says the group aims to run […]
ASSISTANCE group Mondial Assistance has recruited Howard Cooper from private practice as joint head of its expanding legal department. Cooper, formerly with Cameron Markby Hewitt (CMH), will lead the team alongside Nicole Clark, who was recently recruited from Southampton firm Woodford Ackroyd. Cooper’s appointment boosts the uninsured loss recovery unit which has grown dramatically since […]
NICHE shipping and insurance firm Ince & Co is to get a new senior partner. Richard Sayer is to take over at the head of the firm from Patrick Griggs at the end of next year. Griggs remains at the firm as a consultant and will stay a major player in the maritime law arena. […]
Liberal Democrat Home Affairs spokesman Alan Beith will address the annual dinner of the Liberal Democrat Lawyers Association at the National Liberal Club on 23 January. Beith, who was recently appointed to the post, will speak on current issues in the home affairs policy.
YOU MIGHT be forgiven for thinking that the decision of the House of Lords two weeks ago in the second Ready Mixed Concrete Case (In re Supply of Mixed Concrete (No. 2)) heralded a startling development in competition law. Your thinking might have been influenced by the speech of Lord Templeman, who described the fines […]
CONCERN is growing over the safety of three judges in Guatemala City who have been subjected to threats and other intimidation. Judge Maria Villasenor, Judge Hector Orellana and Judge Mario Jiminez, all of the third chamber of the Court of Appeal in the Guatemala City, have all recently reviewed appeals in controversial human rights cases, […]
COUDERT Brothers partners Christopher Haan and Peter Simpson have quit the firm to take up partnerships at the Leeds-based practice Hammond Suddards. The move comes only two years after the pair sent shock waves through the legal community by defecting to Couderts from City practice SJ Berwin & Co, where Haan was senior partner. Haan […]
LAWYERS in the US state of Nevada are awaiting the go-ahead from the state Supreme Court for a radical plan to establish the US’s first mandatory pro bono scheme. If successful, the scheme is likely to be copied in other states. It would be a major influence on thinking about such schemes by the UK […]
Link, the electronic legal information service from Legalease, won the Society for Computers & Law 1994 IT Award last week. The two other finalists were the Open Law Document Listing software from Oxford Law and Computing and Stafford University Law School’s training programs on evidence and advocacy. The judges were impressed by the quality and […]