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Marketing budgets – not such a black art!
Are you in marketing budget limbo-land? Perhaps, you submitted your 2011 marketing budget for approval last year, but do not expect to hear what and how much has been approved for at least a month, maybe longer? Or maybe you are just starting ...
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Legal executive numbers grow
The ranks of legal executives are set to swell, as the number of people sitting Institute of Legal Executives (ILEX) examinations climbed 40% in 2010 compared with the previous year. The examinations were taken for the Level 3 Professional Diploma in Law and Practice, which is ...
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Conveyancing Quality Scheme advertising campaign to launch
The Law Society is to launch a consumer-facing advertising campaign to promote its Conveyancing Quality Scheme this spring, it said last week. The campaign will feature online ‘pay per click’ banner advertising, as well as promotional material including posters and stickers which will be made available ...
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College of Law launches two-year law degree
The College of Law has developed a two-year law degree that will focus on improving students’ employment prospects and practical legal skills while covering the curriculum in the same depth as a traditional three-year course, it said this week.
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Solicitor Deal to head Appeals Unit
Solicitor Angela Deal (pictured) is to head the new specialist Appeals Unit launched today by the Crown Prosecution Service. The Appeals Unit, which is part of the Special Crime Division at CPS headquarters, was initially set up in June 2010, but has been taking on ...
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STEP members optimistic about 2011
More than half of the respondents to a survey of trust and estates practitioners expect that business across all areas of the practice they work in will ‘improve’ or ‘improve significantly’ over the coming year, the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP) has reported.
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Chancery Lane hails landmark ruling on access to justice
Solicitors must be allowed to shoulder the risk of adverse costs orders on behalf of their clients to ensure proper access to justice, the Court of Appeal ruled today. Giving judgment in Sibthorpe and Morris v London Borough of Southwark, the court said that a conditional ...
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Legal aid cuts - what are the alternatives?
In its impact assessment on the legal aid green paper, the government notes that people who no longer receive legal aid may tackle disputes differently or - as seems more likely in many situations - may decide not to tackle an issue at all. Ministers accept ...
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'Poor financial management’ at MoJ, committee concludes
The Ministry of Justice risks making ‘ill-informed’ cuts to services when attempting to slash £2bn from its budget, unless it gathers adequate data and fully understands what it spends, the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) said today.
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Lawyers, banks and balance sheets
Post recession, the banks have been labelled with the word ‘difficult’. It seems that many law firms maintain the policy of minimum contact and disclosure. What is this based on? Dare I suggest one reason might be that the bank will find out just what weaknesses exist in these law ...
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Twitter for beginners
The CCBE has dipped its toe into the world of Twitter. In our office, we had all heard of it and its impact on the world, but none of us had ever used it. It was like the introduction of the first telephone into companies nearly a hundred years ago: ...
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Legal professionals reveal ‘sins’ in survey
One in four lawyers and legal professionals does online shopping at work, while one in eight confesses to doing something at an office party that they later regretted, a recent survey of 500 members of the profession has revealed. Research by twosteps online job board also ...
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Direct access to the bar
We always caution ourselves against stereotyping, but sometimes we just cannot help ourselves. The first time I ventured into London as a tyro lawyer to consult with the barrister my firm had instructed for a tricky commercial litigation, I was delighted to find my prejudices confirmed. A threadbare carpet, an ...
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Where solicitors are going wrong in online wills
I had a meeting last week with Grahame Cohen, chief product and technology officer at Epoq – the company that writes software for many of the big brands now providing wills for consumers. I’ll confess that I was expecting something of a sales pitch from ...
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Withers to open in Zurich to meet high-net-worth demand
City firm Withers will open an office in Zurich to cope with increasing demand from high-net-worth clients, the firm said today. The new office, set to open in April, will be headed by UK tax and trust partner Judith Ingham. The firm, which opened an office ...
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More than 1,000 solicitors support Will Aid charity scheme
More than 1,100 solicitors have participated in a will-writing scheme that is set to raise at least £1.5m for nine UK charities. Solicitors all over the country took part in November 2010’s Will Aid campaign, forgoing their usual fee for preparing a will, and instead asking ...
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Bar Council seeks to raise its profile in Russia
The Bar Council has announced it is to send a delegation to Moscow and Kiev to raise its profile in the former Soviet republics. The trip next week, which will be led by bar chairman Peter Lodder QC, is supported by the British embassies in Russia ...
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Law firm creates ‘accident app’
A 150-year-old Manchester law firm has created an iPhone ‘accident app’ which it claims could revolutionise the personal injury claims process. Croftons has released the iPhone app to help claimants gather accurate evidence and information after an accident at work or on the road, and provide ...
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Prosecute solicitors who lie to PII insurers, says Law Society
The Solicitors Regulation Authority should prosecute every solicitor who lies on their professional indemnity insurance (PII) application form, the chief executive of the Law Society said yesterday. Speaking at an Association of British Insurers (ABI) seminar on solicitors’ PII, Desmond Hudson said that the profession 'needs ...
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Intellectual property
Infringement - Trade marks – Irreparable harm – Balance of injustice Cowshed Products Ltd v (1) Island Origins Ltd (2) Patrick O’Connor (3) Bianca O’Connor: Chd (Judge Birss QC): 17 December 2010 ...