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NewsSlow progress migrating land charge data
Land Registry hopes to have 15 local authorities signed up to digital register by April.
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NewsSwiss firm that bucked Brexit trend hires A&O regional managing partner
Disputes specialist Lalive appoints Thomas Brown as its first ever CEO, after opening a London office in 2018.
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News'Humiliated' employee sued law firm over birthday 'ambush'
Legal secretary claimed age discrimination after colleagues sent her a birthday card.
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NewsGateley plans new staff incentive scheme as profits rise again
Firm’s share price has doubled since first being listed in 2015.
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NewsSimplifying Immigration Rules 'could save government £70m'
Rules have grown from 40 pages to over 1,100 pages since they were introduced nearly five decades ago.
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NewsLive-stream family cases in Court of Appeal, says master of the rolls
Sir Terence Etherton says the public ‘should be able to see how we do our job’.
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NewsLunch means lunch: family judge issues wellbeing protocol
Growing workload made worse by electronic communication and 'twenty-four seven' culture.
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NewsAssociate intake dips at Clifford Chance
The magic circle firm is taking on just 34 trainees in its spring retention round, 12 fewer than this time last year.
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NewsHMCTS promises better court conditions and security
Suppliers will be penalised for poor standards under new contracts that come into force in April.
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NewsCPS embarks on hiring spree
Crown Prosecution Service wants to recruit 390 prosecutors by June.
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NewsNews focus: Two commissions promised in Queen’s speech
Commissions looking into criminal justice and the role of the Supreme Court look set to be the most controversial aspects of the newly elected government’s legislative programme.
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NewsFirms lacking investigation cover ‘dangerously exposed’
Research suggests many firms without enough insurance would face ruin if hauled before disciplinary tribunal.
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News£4k bar scholarship eyes trainee solicitors
Social mobility scheme will be open to aspiring solicitors as well as barristers this year.
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NewsWomen partner numbers up at City firms
Norton Rose Fulbright promotes 53 partners globally, with female lawyers making up 42%.
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NewsCouncil ABS ‘on course’ to return to black
Cambridgeshire is one of three local authorities behind LGSS Law.
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NewsObituary: London firm founder Tony Gold
London firm Anthony Gold has announced the death of its founding partner Tony Gold.
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News£20,000 fine for solicitor duped by woman impersonating client’s ex-wife
Andrew James Daverson ‘failed to carry out basic documentary identification’, tribunal hears.
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NewsSolicitor-MP urges government to review magistrates' retirement age
The Conservatives' Alberto Costa says many magistrates on cusp of retiring would be happy to stay on.
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NewsLegal aid giant absorbs firm smothered by red tape
'It came to a point where I was doing only the compliance and regulatory side of work', criminal practitioner says.
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NewsRegional staff treated as second-class by London firms, research suggests
Report identifies ‘sidelined workforce’ doing work that is seen as 'shameful or degrading' by elite City firms.