International firm Coudert Brothers is poised to take on a clutch of partners and senior lawyers from City and US competitors as part of its second phase of growth in London. The recruitment drive will increase the firm’s London-based fee-earners from 28 to 40 lawyers by the end of 1995 and to 50 in 1996. […]
DIBB Lupton Broomhead may have overstepped the mark in its no-nonsense approach to the law when it sent a fax to another firm. The exchange between the firms has arisen over the case of Dibb Lupton’s client John Broome, who is facing insolvency hearings. Jeffrey Green Russell acts for the creditors (see City page). It […]
Blue Circle head of legal Richard Henchley has realised a 10-year ambition – working alongside his key external legal adviser, he has come up with a comprehensive set of guidelines for steering the approach to legal work. The seven-page guide, produced by Henchley and his City lawyers Slaughter and May, lays down the framework in […]
Some may confuse distance learning with correspondence courses, but Fennell Betson reveals there is a world of difference Distance learning may be seen as the modern equivalent of correspondence study, but its proponents say it it is a lot more than that. An increasing number of universities are now offering LLBs through “off campus” study […]
At its last session the Council of the Law Society met in camera to determine its views on the future of conveyancing. Since the public and legal press were excluded the only information we have was contained in a news-managed report in last week’s Law Society Gazette which stated that the council “had confounded expectations […]
CITY firms and their partners are most likely to benefit from the budget, which has created new areas of financial services work and greater flexibility on private pensions pay-outs. Private client lawyers may also benefit by advising on tax changes, but high street firms may gain little from what has been a cautious budget. Venture […]
NHS risk management is often more concerned with budgets than clinical risks to patients. Arnold Simanowitz reports When risk management consultants, involved in the NHS, talk about risk management they invariably mean risk to the hospital or trust. The driving force behind the development of the practice, which started many years ago in the US, […]
Consider your knuckles rapped for saying on the front page of The Lawyer 22 November that the Legal Aid Board “wrapped” the knuckles of TV Edwards. It sounds like something you would buy from Sainsbury’s: ‘Honey-roast Edwards’ knuckles – u1.20/lb’. Young & Solon 6 Blackheath Road SE10 8BY
New guidelines on money laundering are being targeted at solicitors.
Kent is a fragmented county, hit hard by the ravages of the recession. There is no one legal centre. To the north of the county the Medway towns of Rochester, Gillingham and Chatham were hit the hardest. Closed dockyards created high unemployment and little industry, although the region is trying to attract industrial development. The […]
Two London-based Coudert Brothers partners are leaving to take up top City in-house banking jobs. Banking and corporate tax partner Jeremy McCallum is to join Credit Lyonnais as legal department head on 9 January. He replaces Jennifer Goodwin, who left to go to UBS two months ago (The Lawyer 20 September). International banking and finance […]
Essex is a small market, which looks north to East Anglia, rather than south to Kent or west to London for work. “I’ve never been sure whether we’re in the South East or East Anglia,” says one local lawyer and many of the firms which are important in the area have practices elsewhere. For example, […]