Last 3 months headlines – Page 635
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NewsBeware of IP pitfalls in merger deals, law firm warns
Regulators increasingly viewing IP-focussed M&A deals with suspicion, according to magic circle firm.
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NewsRetail collapses bring City firms £7m legal fees
DLA Piper and Jones Day among biggest billers dealing with spate of high street closures.
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NewsConveyancers under increasing pressure over leasehold advice
Professional negligence solicitor says his team has been contacted by 'several hundred' worried homeowners.
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NewsJudicial diversity? It's up to law firms, says lord chief justice
Lord Burnett asks what more needs to be done to create 'a properly diverse profession at its senior levels'.
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NewsIndia arbitration reform will restrict foreign lawyers
Debevoise partner Lord Goldsmith says its not too late for New Delhi to delay reform.
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NewsRegional firm merges with London insolvency outfit
Harrison Clark Rickerbys will move into Sprecher Grier’s London office.
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NewsLinklaters former director agrees to keep silent
High Court judgment reveals litigation over ‘women in workplace’ disclosure has come to an end by agreement.
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NewsCountry's biggest regional divorce centre hit by record delays
Bury St Edmunds experienced longer waiting times for each stage of the divorce process last year, the Gazette reveals.
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NewsLawyer who received death threat thanks profession for show of support
Criminal defence solicitor Richard Egan represents convicted killer Jack Shepherd.
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News‘Never say no,’ says GC who inspired groundbreaking Hermes deal
Hugo Martin has advised in-house legal teams that they need to gain influence in organisations by providing solutions.
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News‘Lax’ LSB failed consumers by sanctioning deregulation
Law Society rules out JR of decision to approve Handbook reforms, but lambasts super-regulator for ducking its responsibilities.
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NewsNews focus: Making the bar a 'happy place to be'
This year’s bar chair wants to end the profession’s ‘24/7 culture’ to improve wellbeing and help tackle retention woes. And he’s optimistic the MoJ is finally getting the message on funding
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NewsJudge caught napping
Obiter can relate to the Family Division judge who chose to rest her eyes during a case hearing.
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NewsArt of glass
Mr Justice Mann’s judgment in Neo Bankside Residents v Tate Gallery shows he’s not a particular fan of fashions in modern art. Or of south London.
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NewsOrwell that didn’t end well
Mr Justice Williams drew on a literary allusion in a family court case this week that wasn’t exactly flattering.
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NewsVoice-detection for insurance fraud among £13m grant winners
Data anonymisation and online legal advice projects also receive government AI research funding.
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NewsLaw Society Group reports 9% gender pay gap
Imbalance at the top and salary sacrifice arrangements contribute to difference, Chancery Lane says.
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NewsMoJ accused of ignoring solicitors in bequest alert reforms
‘Vital’ solicitors can have their say in new process for alerting charities to bequests.
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NewsPartnership model hampering lawtech take-up
Research for Law Society finds technology adoption less mature than in other sectors such as finance.