Neil Hodge

  • Birmingham Law Centre
    Feature

    Law centres: living on the edge

    27 May 2013

    Last week’s London Legal Walk, coming weeks after swingeing legal aid cuts were introduced, could be read as a show of strength by the whole legal community.

  • News

    Asia: following the money

    Archive

    For those corporate lawyers wanting to take on a challenge, a move to Asia might be just the ticket. Where law firms in the UK and Europe are struggling to find new work and grow revenues, Asia’s economies are booming, and the demand for legal services in areas such as ...

  • News

    PII special: overview - sea change

    2012-07-19T00:00:00

    Since moving to the open market in 2000, many solicitors’ firms have complained of professional indemnity insurance (PII) premium price hikes. As one anonymous lawyer put it: ‘Let’s not pretend that the insurers are some sort of benign force existing to help anyone. They are there to take premiums and ...

  • News

    How firms can benefit from lawyers taking up non-executive appointments

    2012-06-14T00:00:00

    For some, the lure of a string of non-executive directorships represents a potentially lucrative nest-egg between giving up full-time legal work and retirement proper. For others, the chance to be on the board as a part-time director provides invaluable education into how organisations are run and how boards operate. They ...

  • News

    The Rolls Building, London's trump card

    2012-02-09T00:00:00

    London has long been regarded as one of the most popular venues for resolving international disputes, but the government - and the legal profession - hope that the opening of the Rolls Building as the world’s biggest commercial court will help cement the UK’s reputation as the key jurisdiction in ...

  • Feature

    Will overhaul of PII regulation soften up the market?

    1998-06-28T00:00:00

    The shake-up of solicitors’ professional indemnity insurance has been protracted.