Law firms entitled to set compulsory retirement age

Thursday, 29 July 2010 A former law firm partner who accused his firm of acting unlawfully by making him retire at 65 has lost his age discrimination case in the Court of Appeal. Leslie Seldon, now 69, a former civil litigation partner at Kent law firm Clarkson Wright Jakes (CWJ), had signed a contract with the firm that included a clause saying he should retire aged ...
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Information law: the future

Thursday, 29 July 2010 The coalition government has announced a series of legislative proposals and initiatives which will have a big impact on information law. David Cameron has said he wants to rip off the ‘cloak of ­secrecy’ around government and public services and extend ­transparency as far as possible. The coalition: our programme for government... More In Practice...

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What SME firms must do to survive challenging times

Monday, 26 July 2010 Many small and medium-sized (SMEs) law firms have struggled over the past two years and have been forced to restructure their practices because of the recession. The downtown in the property market, cashflow problems as a result of the Legal Services Commission’s payment system, a general slowdown in transactional activity and the increase in pro... More In Business...

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Family law supplier base ‘decimated’ by LSC tender

Thursday, 29 July 2010 The family law supplier base has been ‘decimated’ by the ‘shock’ outcome of the Legal Services Commission’s tender for civil legal...
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Lord chief justice defends trial by jury

Thursday, 29 July 2010 The lord chief justice emphasised the importance of trial by jury last week as the Court of Appeal overturned two High Court decisions that ...
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Could the iPad revolutionise the way law firms do business?

Like several thousand other people, Lee Ranson, managing partner at Eversheds, bought an Apple iPad on 28 May, the day it went on sale. ‘We were converts,’ he says. Unlike many proud early owners, however, he saw the much-talked-about handheld computer not as an executive toy, but as a key component of a corporate IT strategy. Within the next few weeks, after an extensive trial, Eversheds is to decide whether to offer a device to all of its fee-earners.

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