All articles by Gazette newsdesk – Page 17
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NewsPEP tops £500k at Dentons’ UKMEA practice
Global firm releases bullish annual results, with net profit up 18%.
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NewsProfits rise with income at Kingsley Napley
Overall profits expected to be up 8% on 2014, but PEP likely to be flat.
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NewsPEP soars 17% at Fladgate
London firm fires starting gun on what is expected to be a bullish annual results season.
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NewsNumber of practitioners rising fast
Growth in private practice numbers soars to nine-year high - and in-house is expanding too.
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NewsFood banks should offer legal advice – Ukip
Party also pledges to ‘bring our British legal system back under British control’ in its general election manifesto.
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NewsTLT to defend former Halliwells partners on the hook for millions
The firm has been instructed to represent fixed-share members of the collapsed Manchester outfit in claims brought by liquidator BDO.
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NewsGlobal giant Dentons unveils US merger
World’s largest firm by headcount to ally with McKenna Long & Aldridge.
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NewsConveyancing portal Veyo reports registration surge
Almost half of conveyancing practices have signed up to the online system.
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NewsEx-CCBE chief raps client money proposal
LSB ‘imprisoned’ by the Legal Services Act 2007 in seeking to strip powers from professions deemed to have been ‘naughty’, says Jonathan Goldsmith.
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NewsProfits soar as firms capitalise on recovery
Corporate work has surged and conveyancing is at a 10-year high.
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NewsDWF opens first office outside British Isles
Dubai presence will help support clients in MENA region.
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Three new Law Society Excellence awards
Three new categories – of human rights, technology and private client practice – are included in the lineup for the Law Society Excellence Awards 2015.
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NewsReport: look after ‘Generation Y’, or they’ll move on
New research by the Law Society highlights talent-retention headache caused by ‘millennial mobility’.
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NewsBritish courts can impose whole-life terms
A life sentence with no hope of release does not amount to ‘inhuman or degrading treatment’.
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NewsConsumer credit upheaval postponed again
City watchdogs agree to delay regulatory changes as SRA seeks ‘best possible solution’.
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NewsQuarter of homebuyers ‘would pay more’ for conveyancing
Poll by embryonic portal Veyo finds dealing with solicitors is ‘key stress point’.
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NewsCity and civil service top legal honours list
City and Government Legal Service figure strongly in new year’s honours.
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NewsCourt puts legal aid contract process on hold
Crime duty contracts tender process suspended until the result of judicial reviews sought by Law Society and practitioner groups.
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NewsCity lawyers urge SRA to retain consumer credit brief
CLLS warns of extra costs and risk of criminal liability if regulation passes to the Financial Conduct Authority.
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NewsCouncils ‘ignoring legal duties to homeless children’
Charity’s report quotes solicitor accusing local authorities of ’Rotherham-type’ protection failures.