All articles by Max Walters – Page 44
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      NewsNew Balance trade mark victory offers hope in China
US brand awarded £1.2 million in ruling that ‘sends strong and powerful message’.
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      NewsSimmons and BWB win places on government's 'highly complex' panel
Firms will advise public sector on transactions in finance, refinancing and capital markets.
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      NewsBar claims surge of interest in direct access
Barristers’ representative body says people are increasingly going direct to barristers and bypassing solicitors.
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      NewsFake lawyer jailed for eight years after £92,000 fraud
Michael Cremin’s name appeared on legitimate chambers website, but he was a con man.
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      NewsHogan Lovells takes on four in five trainees
Firm matches last year’s score by holding onto 80% of its trainee cohort.
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      News28 Olswang partners left before ‘super merger’
Companies House filings reveal over a quarter of partners departed in run up to merger being finalised.
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      NewsIP police get £3m boost
Police Intellectual Property Crime unit will survive for a further two years.
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      NewsBLM to cut more roles as profits continue to fall
Insurance litigation firm reveals 29 staff could lose their jobs as it relocates part of business from Southampton to Manchester and Liverpool.
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      NewsLinklaters quit as Barclays adviser over ‘unlawful’ loan fears
Court documents allege the magic circle firm had concerns over where Qatari money would end up.
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Anti-money laundering quango 'adds no value' - Law Society
Chancery Lane says costs to profession are likely to be ‘substantial’.
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      NewsLinklaters adds to healthy magic circle retention rates
Firm keeps on 84% of its autumn cohort.
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      NewsFlexible courts could bankrupt solicitor firms - Law Society
Compensating solicitors for working overtime could doom firms operating on ‘zero profit margins’, Chancery Lane warns.
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      NewsTop litigation firm takes on just one of four trainees
Stewarts Law recently posted bumper profits but trainee retention has dipped to a record low.
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      NewsWoodsford funds litigation boutique
Litigation funder teams up with US firm Lewis Baach Kaufmann Middlemiss.
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      NewsBan for legal assistant who stole from vulnerable clients
Dianne Spragg was sentenced to 30 months in January last year.
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      NewsI would never sign a power of attorney - retired judge
Denzil Lush, former Court of Protection judge, has accused the MoJ of a misguided ‘crusade’.
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      NewsPioneering price comparison site Law Superstore taken over
Property website reallymoving has acquired the law’s ’equivalent to Compare The Market’ - amid revelations of difficulties in getting solicitors to sign up.
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