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News and updates – Page 10
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NewsFirms finalise office return plans
Top City firms are cautiously preparing to fully reopen their offices next month, with desk-booking apps, flexible working pilots and weekly team meetings.
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NewsActivist Scottish lawyers lobby for legal aid support
An activist group of lawyers has emerged in Scotland seeking to pile pressure on Holyrood to provide urgent support to legal aid solicitors.
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NewsLinklaters loses 45 secretaries and PAs
Magic circle firm offered voluntary redundancy to all of its London secretaries earlier this year.
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NewsCovid will boost our acquisitions, says listed firm Knights
Trading update predicts revenue will exceed £100m for the year ended 30 April 2021.
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NewsThree Nightingale courts to close next month
Makeshift courts in Birmingham, Chester and Lancaster will shut within weeks.
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NewsFamily lawyers expect to work from home post-Covid - survey
Practitioners encouraged to take advantage of opportunity to radically rethink working practices.
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NewsLoughborough in line for new ‘super-court’
Question mark still hangs over the future of 12 Nightingale courts with licences that expire next month.
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NewsJudge hopes medical experts can continue to attend remotely
Mr Justice David Williams tells family law conference Covid-related change should become permanent.
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NewsSociety issues guidance on juniors as lockdown eases
Trainees must be appropriately supervised and supported in flexible or hybrid working arrangements.
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NewsScotland's legal aid solicitors boycott courts over Covid-19 support
Scottish Solicitors Bar Association says further action 'will not be ruled out' if government dispute not resolved.
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NewsMagic circle accelerates technology drive
Disruption caused by Covid-19 has increased demand for digital legal products, says Clifford Chance.
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NewsThree in 10 Covid prosecutions wrongly charged
Crown Prosecution Service says errors typically involved wrong iterations of rules that frequently changed.
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News‘Presenteeism is a curse’: Cherie Blair backs flexible working post-pandemic
Junior lawyer representative also urges those wanting flexible working to speak up and request it.
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NewsCrown court backlog starts to stabilise
Number of outstanding cases now hovers at around 58,000, up from 41,600 in May last year.
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NewsHousing lawyers warn over tenants' rights reforms
Concern over proposals as government prepares to wind down emergency measures.
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NewsCommercial court to return to in-person trials – except on Fridays
‘Mood has changed’ among commercial court users, who are less enthusiastic about virtual hearings than in September 2020.
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NewsNovice lawyer unfairly sacked after asking for her wages
Paralegal could not afford Wi-Fi to work from home because of ‘erratic’ salary payments from firm.
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NewsMore City secretaries facing redundancy
Dechert has offered voluntary redundancy to a ‘small number’ of secretarial staff, in a wave of City job losses.
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NewsFirms rebound after market shrinks by 4%
Gross legal product index finds stark discrepancies between the performance of different practice areas.
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News'Markedly inferior': Bar councils warn against virtual justice
Legal bodies issue joint statement warning against the wide-spread use of remote hearings.