Headlines – Page 962
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NewsAddleshaw Goddard names new chief
John Joyce replaces Paul Devitt to oversee a new strategy at City firm.
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NewsSociety to open web system to all conveyancers
Licensed conveyancers as well as solicitors will be able to use the Conveyancing Portal so long as they pass due diligence tests.
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NewsCosts ABS expands as business booms
A ‘buoyant’ costs market has prompted a hiring spree at one of the biggest costs firms. Just Costs Solicitors, which was granted an ABS licence last year, has expanded its 100-strong team with the addition of 30 solicitors, barristers, costs lawyers and costs drafts personnel, its managing director said ...
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NewsCourts Wi-Fi roll-out timetable ‘slips’
Damian Green said courts in England and Wales are entering a ‘Wi-Fi era’ following the announcement of an additional £75m annual investment.
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NewsSenior judge calls time on conferences
Sir Terence Etherton, chancellor of the High Court, said judges were ‘perplexed’ as to why parties are failing to agree budgets.
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NewsGrayling head-hunts QCs to save fraud trials
Recruitment drive for the Public Defender Service used as an ‘emergency measure’ following protests against fee cuts.
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NewsUS online arbitration service eyes UK
US and Canadian judges could arbitrate remotely on UK disputes if a north American online service takes off across the Atlantic.
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Birmingham lawyer boom
Vacancies registered with recruitment agencies in the first quarter of 2014 were up 49% year-on-year.
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MoJ claims civil courts not damaged by austerity
Senior judges said last week unmeritorious claims are on the rise in the wake of LASPO.
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NewsPakistan lawyers charged over ‘blasphemy’
The arrests came a week after the murder of Rashid Rehman, who was acting for a university lecturer accused of blasphemy, which carries the death penalty in Pakistan.
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IP act gets royal assent
Paves the way for the UK to implement the EU Unified Patent Court Agreement.
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New Society corporate affairs chief
Deborah Oliver previously held posts at the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain and the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman.
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Gap widens in US legal sector
Large law firms are more likely than small to embrace innovations such as non-hourly billing, the sixth annual Law Firms in Transition survey of the US legal market suggests.
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Takeover creates 100-strong firm
Clifton Ingram has completed the acquisition of neighbouring firm Ratcliffe Duce & Gammer.
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Czech mate for Hogan Lovells
International firm Hogan Lovells has decided to close its Prague office following a review of the market.
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NewsClaimant firm fails to increase 30% success fee
Mrs Justice Slade agreed the defendant’s offer of 30% reflected the ‘real risk’ of establishing negligence.
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NewsRule change ‘puts COFA heads on the block’
SRA last week outlined plans to remove the need for solicitors firms to supply annual reports from an independent accountant.
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NewsPay on the rise for accounts staff
Most accounting teams in law firms received a salary increase last year.