Last 3 months headlines – Page 364
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NewsEquity investors flex muscles in merger flurry
Firms and WIP being snapped up by firms enjoying new backing from investors.
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NewsFirm loses bid to identify ‘toxic environment’ reviewer
BW Legal Services sought Norwich Pharmacal relief against review website Glassdoor.
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NewsCity firm’s home working pay cut makes headlines
Stephenson Harwood says full-time remote workers face 20% salary reduction.
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NewsMagistrates' new jailing powers come in to force
Critics fear latest measure to tackle court backlog will result in more appeals to the Crown court.
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NewsGovernment ‘looking carefully’ at radical clin neg proposals
Patients’ charity says well-established compensation system cannot be thrown out overnight.
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NewsCharles Russell Speechlys to pay out £1.5m in negligence claim
International firm 'fell short of the standard of care required of a reasonably competent solicitor'.
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NewsClifford Chance finalises Moscow spin-off
Magic circle firm says ‘small number’ of Moscow team likely to be made redundant.
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NewsChancery interim applications in person next month
Sir Julian Flaux says interim applications in person by default from 9 May.
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NewsSolicitor on jury service jailed for researching trial evidence
Experienced solicitor's actions caused trial to be abandoned at an estimated cost of £30,000.
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NewsLondon defence solicitors demand 25% fee increase
Practitioner group revises what it is willing to accept from government after members say 15% uplift isn't enough.
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NewsSRA chief admits ethnicity pay gap figure is ‘not acceptable’
In first report, regulator says disparity is due to white staff accounting for 88% of best-paid staff.
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NewsPart of the union: GMB sets up branch for judges
Prominent trade union insists it does not want to go to war with senior judiciary.
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NewsNews focus: SLAPPs row reaches the regulator
War in Ukraine is keeping strategic lawsuits against public participation in the spotlight. But disagreements remain concerning what to do about SLAPPs and even what they are.
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NewsAn upmarket office boy
Michael Simmons continues reminiscing about life as an (aspiring) solicitor in the 1950s.
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NewsTide turns on insanity defence
Credit for the defence of crime passionnel goes to Edwin Stanton, appearing for fellow US Congressman Daniel Sickles of New York.
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NewsLaurence Fox seeks first libel jury trial for a decade
Actor and former mayoral candidate says vindication by jury ‘will be worth all the more’.
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NewsSlater and Gordon declines to explain 'secret' ATE payments
Judge says there is 'huge worry' about unexplained commission which firm 'refuses to explain'.
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NewsJR reforms become law as parliament winds down
Home secretary describes justice reforms as 'a landmark moment for the people of our country'.
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NewsHSF and Clifford Chance break partnership records
Herbert Smith Freehills promotes firm’s largest cohort while Clifford Chance hails ‘most diverse ever’.
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NewsRemote firm reports 56% profit jump and bonus dividend
Keystone admits that applications to join tailed off in 2021 as lawyers reassessed their options.