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NewsMergers lose appeal as top firms look to poach departments
Latest sector research suggests large firms only want the very best departments without taking on the other firm’s liabilities.
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News12-month sentence for ‘utterly false’ whiplash claim
High Court hears Bernard Parmar made or caused to be made six separate false statements of truth in £15,000 claim.
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NewsTop-10 firm snaps up Canadian practice
Norton Rose Fulbright announces combination with British Columbia-based Bull Housser.
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NewsNetherlands eyes UK's EU court role
Future of unitary patent and Unified Patent Court unclear after Brexit vote.
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NewsComparison sites need access to firms’ past mistakes – SRA chief
‘People outside the sector would be surprised at how contentious this is proving for legal service providers.’
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NewsSolicitor MP added to MoJ team
Former City solicitor Robert Jenrick MP confirmed as principal private secretary to lord chancellor.
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News‘Disgraceful’ family solicitor sentenced over income tax fraud
Dianna Gerald, also known as Dianna Lee, 'wholly unsuitable to be a solicitor' judge says.
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NewsNew law to introduce ‘failure to prevent’ offence
Draft criminal finance bill set to be introduced following attorney general speech.
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NewsWales levies first tax in 800 years
Land transaction tax will be payable on the purchase or lease of a building or land in Wales over a certain value.
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NewsLegal Aid Agency contracts chief to leave
Hugh Barrett, director of legal aid commissioning and strategy, on his way out in restructuring of management team.
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NewsScrap the SRA and create a single regulator, says LSB
Oversight regulator wants fundamental change – including of the professional title of solicitor.
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NewsNew legal firms set to top 1,000 this year
From 1 January to 31 July, 612 new business entities were authorised by the Solicitors Regulation Authority.
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NewsMagic circle: retention rates rise
At least eight in 10 trainees are being kept on at the magic circle this autumn.
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NewsIndemnity premiums 'down by up to 20%'
Industry experts report that unrated insurers have been priced out of the market because their rated competitors are offering similar deals.
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News focus: corruption and cooperation
The Serious Fraud Office believes deferred prosecution agreements could work ‘even in the most serious cases of financial misconduct’.
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NewsCriminal appeals warning for barristers
Barristers who are not trial counsel have been told to seek both the advice of legal representatives and ‘objective, independent evidence’.
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NewsSolicitor dismay over Munby care case comments
Family law group Resolution said Sir James Munby’s words could be misconstrued to suggest lawyers are making a ‘heap of money’.
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NewsRivals cry foul as MedCo giants create 70 shell companies
Big four players still registering multiple companies as choice of medical expert further restricted.
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NewsLitigation fund backs public interest cases
Woodsford Litigation Funding has become the first partner of venture to fund test cases.
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