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NewsUS law firms get taste for cross-border mergers
England and Wales firms feature prominently in US merger statistics.
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NewsWhiplash reforms treat victims ‘like an inconvenience’ – APIL
Association of Personal Injury Lawyers says MoJ plans for PI sector are flawed and will not achieve their objectives.
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NewsUnreasonable defendant must face costs consequences
High Court sends another warning message to parties who 'litigate mendaciously'.
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NewsLaw Society chief executive resigns
Catherine Dixon is leaving Chancery Lane ‘with a heavy heart’ over Council’s failure to progress governance reforms.
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NewsMajor PI firm reveals £13m profit hit as reforms loom
Thompsons Solicitors also set aside millions to cover redundancy costs in 2015/16.
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NewsMunby: vulnerable witnesses reform ‘matter of priority’
President of the Family Division says he would welcome bar on abuse victims being cross-examined by their alleged perpetrators.
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NewsLegal stories you may have missed over Christmas
Some of the key legal stories emerging while we celebrated Christmas and the new year.
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NewsRecruitment and retention law firms' top concerns for 2017
Latest Gazette/Law Consultancy Network survey places Brexit down the list of worries.
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NewsPiracy and space experts awarded New Year honours
Solicitors in private practice appear alongside MoJ and Government Legal Department heads.
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NewsCampaigners hope transfer will save city's court
Ministry of Justice says it is will to consider proposal to move Crown work to empty magistrates’ court in Chichester.
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News‘Conflict of interest’ fear over FCA’s senior managers regime
Law Society says subjecting in-house lawyers to City accountability regime may create conflict of interest.
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NewsCouncil’s ‘secret’ grant to law firm under the microscope again
Meeting called to further scrutinise grant to Asons Solicitors as Bolton council answers questions.
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Law firms join forces in apprenticeships drive
Law firms in the north-east seek to create alternative routes into the profession.
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Commercial Court dismisses Tchenguiz claim
Decision is part of long-running case surrounding sale of Somerfield to Co-Op.
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NewsSolicitor of 25 years agrees to leave profession for altering file
Heather Redman made 'innocent mistake' over a deed of appointment.
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NewsAdvocacy fees: Society pulls out of working group
Chancery Lane cites concern about 'lack of openness and transparency'.
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NewsNew effort to free war crimes judge held in Turkey
The international war crimes tribunal makes public increasingly desperate pleas for one of its judges detained in Turkey.
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NewsBTE extension under review with backing from top judge
Sir Terence Etherton says before-the-event insurance could become the main source of litigation funding.
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KWM confirms intention to appoint administrators
European arm of King & Wood Mallesons says it ‘continues to explore all available options’.
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NewsCreditors lose almost £1m as former directors buy back fraud-hit firm
Administrator says pre-pack deal is best possible for creditors and staff of Kent practice.