Our enormous briefings library is the best place to go to if you want up-to-the-minute summaries of latest legal developments. Here are some of the latest, from Mills & Reeve, Shoosmiths, NCTM, DLA Piper and Nabarro Mills & Reeve: High Speed 2 — the journey has started Shoosmiths: Advance Payments Code NCTM: Cultural heritage in […]
The April year end is almost here, and a law firm leader’s thoughts turn to financial reporting. And fish. Olswang’s chief executive David Stewart is on familiar territory. Not just talking about his firm’s performance, a topic he also addressed at the half-year stage when the firm’s six-month revenue rose by 15 per cent to […]
Withers is set to launch an appeal after being ordered to pay £1.6m in damages by the High Court. Mr Justice Nugee upheld one of four professional negligence claims against the firm, holding that an associate was ruled to have “misremembered what he had been instructed” or “misunderstood an instruction” when drafting an LLP agreement. […]
The first thing you’ll notice is the suit. It must have been quite a challenge to find an outfit that could hold its own in this glamorous, cavernous room but the maître d’ has managed it, with aplomb. HDR as it likes to call itself, is the main restaurant of the new Rosewood Hotel, in […]
Macfarlanes has helped steer Russian metals giant Rusal to a judicial review victory in the High Court over the London Metal Exchange (LME). In a judgment handed down yesterday (27 March) Mr Justice Phillips found in favour of Rusal in a spat with the LME over new rules governing metals warehouses. Rusal challenged the way […]
Remember when lawyers were debt averse? Not any more. Today’s news that Irwin Mitchell has taken out a £90m facility has the potential to reshape the market. That is serious money, a mountain of cash that is certain to be used to fund an acquisition strategy by the firm, possibly in the run up to […]
Energy, waste and renewables lawyers from Walker Morris have advised Augean on the disposal of parts of its former Waste Network division, the proposed closure of which was announced in September 2013. Augean will retain certain assets to form a new business — Augean Integrated Services based at Cannock. Of the remaining businesses of the division, […]
Criminal barristers have dropped plans for further strike action after the government today made temporary concessions in the long running battle over proposed cuts to legal aid rates. Justice Secretary Chris Grayling announced that proposed changes to the advocates graduated fee scheme will be postponed until summer 2015. He said the move would allow the […]
Eversheds’ competition, EU and regulatory group was named Best Regulatory Law Firm of the Year at C5’s Women in Compliance Awards 2014. The awards celebrate the achievements of women, recognising and rewarding the outstanding contribution that women make every day in the world of compliance. Eversheds’ nomination highlighted the team’s online training courses: Competition Law Online Toolkit, […]
Eversheds has advised RPW (Southampton), a joint venture company owned by Morgan Sindall Investments Ltd (MSIL), and fund provider Lucent Group on the signing of the conditional development agreement for the regeneration of the Royal Pier Waterfront in Southampton. MSIL is the investment division of construction and regeneration group Morgan Sindall. Lucent Group is a strategic land development […]
Commenting on the publication of the Lord Davies report into the role of women in UK boardrooms, John Heaps, chairman at Eversheds, said this is a critical phase for gender diversity in UK boardrooms. He said: ‘Thanks to the Davies Report, the 30% Club and many other initiatives, this subject has received huge attention in […]
Danny Blum, partner and employee incentives expert at Eversheds, has commented on the potential for UK rules on executive pay to be toughened. According to Blum, the messages coming from the government are confusing, as the vast majority of remuneration committees appear to be taking a much more focused approach to linking relevant performance to reward as are […]