All articles by Max Walters – Page 28
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NewsTrade mark company told to stop calling itself 'number one'
Advertising Standards Authority says adverts must not appear again in their current form.
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NewsEversheds takes strides towards female partner goal
International firm has target to reach 30% female partnership by 2021.
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NewsPioneering solicitor QC quits magic circle for chambers
Judith Gill hails 'exciting times for arbitration in Singapore’.
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NewsFraud authority sets ‘robo-lawyer' to work on cases
AI can work '2,000 times faster than a human lawyer’, SFO says.
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NewsSFO reveals new interim director
Successor to David Green has been appointed but cannot start immediately.
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NewsDozens of chambers join escalating bar action
Criminal solicitors call for ‘unity’ across the legal profession amid fears defendants may have ’unsuitable’ counsel foisted upon them.
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NewsNews focus: gender pay expectations gap
Excluding equity partners effectively allows many firms to constrict their gender pay gap. But the tide has turned and more realistic figures have come in — what do they tell us?
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NewsHogan Lovells latest firm to boost trainee grant
Hogan Lovells joints magic circle and Herbert Smith Freehiills in boosting LPC maintenance grant by 42%.
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NewsCohabitant entitled to slice of partner’s £1.5m estate, judge rules
Forty-two-year relationship sufficient for reasonable provision to be awarded, High Courty decides in landmark judgment.
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NewsCo-op Legal acquires probate oufit as profits stall
Pioneering consumer brand adds Simplify Probate to legal offer after integrating with Funeralcare service.
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Inflation-busting fee hikes boost UK top-100
Deloitte report survey reports leading firms grew by nearly 8% on average in last quarter of 2017.
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NewsWhite collar crime expert heads to Greenberg Traurig
Barry Vitou will join a newly created London base for the firm’s white collar defence & special investigations practice.
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NewsDLA Piper posts strong 2017 despite cyber-attack
Global firm was among businesses targeted in June last year.
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NewsHogan Lovells partner pay gap favours women
International firm declines to follow lead set by Clifford Chance and others by revealing firmwide pay gap.
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NewsVW to face spotlight as group action gets green light
Volkswagen to face claims that it manipulated the results of emissions tests.
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NewsGovernment committed to finding 'extraordinary' DPP replacement
Process begins after it was confirmed Alison Saunders will not have her contract renewed in October.
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NewsGender pay gap: Linklaters revises figures to include partners
Magic circle firm had been first to report pay gap, initially omitting equity partners.
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News'Direct action' over cuts starts on Sunday, barristers announce
Around 90% of survey respondents voted in favour of boycotts, Criminal Bar Association reveals.
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NewsGender pay: silver circle firm releases new figures including partners
Travers Smith says ‘full disclosure was appropriate’ as revised figures send pay gap soaring.
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NewsMammoth VW case gets off to slow start
Three law firms are fighting car maker on behalf of more than 50,000 claimants.