SUSSEX law firm Burstows is introducing an employment law service, believed to be the first of its kind in the country. Instead of preparing employment contracts on an individual basis, a tailor-made standard contract is supplied complete with a manual and a telephone advice line. The scheme has been devised by nationwide legal grouping the […]
LAW firms contributed u500 million to the u1.34 billion net earned overseas by UK consultancy firms in 1993, say Central Statistical Office(CSO) figures. The profession is the largest single earner among the consultants last year. Management and economic consultants earned u218 million and consulting engineers u117 million. Advertisers pulled in u156 million, while accountancy services […]
LAWYERS involved in the take-over of collapsed firm Deacon Goldrein Green have hit out at “abysmal” delays in the transfer of files. Merseyside practice J Keith Park & Co was given the go- ahead last week to take over Deacon’s head office and five branch offices. Client files from the remaining 12 offices will be […]
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LAWYER and producer Lionel Fynn, senior licensing partner at Penningtons Bournemouth office, is directing and starring in a video on licensing laws. Fynn’s video explains the impact of the Deregulation and Contracting Out Act on pubs and bars. The act will introduce a system of children’s certificates early next year to regulate the services pubs […]
I was most disappointed to open the edition of The Lawyer for 8 November and to find on page 14 an article on National Health Service legal services, which included a table of solicitors’ firms active in the field. We were not mentioned. Since the merger of Le Brasseurs with J Tickle & Co on […]
THE LAW Society’s weekly publication, The Gazette, could resume distribution among student members if representations put to the society this month succeed. Students have not received the magazine for the past three years after budget cuts at Chancery Lane. But a submission by the Trainee Solicitors’ Group (TSG) will go before the society’s strategy committee […]
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LEADING US firm Kirkland & Ellis has opened its first office outside America in London. The Bishopsgate office, which opened on 1 November, is staffed by resident partners Sam Haubold and Stuart Mills, who have transferred from Chicago. Haubold says no plans have been made to transfer additional US staff to London or to recruit […]
LEGAL Network Television (LNTV) has dropped its direct home broadcasts in favour of supplying educational video tapes direct to law firms. The network previously broadcast legal programmes through BBC selectors twice a week at 3.15am. Viewers of the station, which was launched in February 1993, received the programmes through a decoder. But LNTV’s sales and […]
A Privy Council hearing opened last week into the case of a Jamaican death row prisoner, represented on a pro bono basis by City firm Lovell White Durrant. Lovells partner Graham Huntley is acting for Albert Huntley, who has been on death row in Jamaica for over 11 years charged with murder after the shooting […]
A HANDFUL of heavyweight law firms are gearing themselves up for the next phase of the battle for the Government’s prized privately financed road schemes. Baker & McKenzie, McKen-na & Co, Linklaters & Paines, Freshfields and Scottish firm McGrigor Donald are all acting for consortia which have won places on a shortlist to submit tenders […]