All News articles – Page 1785
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Our paperless future, only partially assured
Yes, I know, you’ve heard it all before. One day soon, a day hiding perversely just out of sight, law firms will realise that shuffling bits of dead tree around is a pretty dumb way of organising their information
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Diversity and monitoring
One has to feel some sympathy for the Solicitors Regulation Authority in connection with its efforts to respond to concerns about diversity.
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We’ve got the technology – now give us law e-books
Some years ago, I plied this trade as an IT journalist and remember writing in breathless tones about e-ink/e-paper, and about how it could revolutionise how we look at the shifting balance between paper and computers for storage of documents and ad hoc notes.
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Judges’ pensions and fiscal meltdown
The late Peter Cook famously lamented that he could have been a judge, but never had the Latin. One can understand his ambition from reading the report of the Senior Salaries Review Body (SSRB), published this week.
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Paperless lawyering, part three
As a lawyer of a certain age – ie I started out before PCs and emails, when cutting and pasting documents actually meant cutting and pasting typed documents and then photocopying them – I am more used to handling paper, printing out documents and scribbling handwritten notes on them
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You have the right to phone a solicitor – for now
The Legal Services Commission has published its second consultation paper on best value tendering (BVT) for criminal defence work in police stations and magistrates’ courts.
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Counselling the council
A few days ago saw a major gathering of the municipal great and good as local government solicitors converged on Warwick University for the Solicitors in Local Government annual weekend school.
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Ordering pizza and customer relationship management
It’s one of my missions to get it through law firms’ metaphorical skulls that just because they are unique businesses, it doesn’t mean they can’t learn a huge amount from how other business sectors work. Customer relationship management is a perfect case in point.
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Rickett takes 10-race challenge
Jacob Rickett, environmental law assistant at Browne Jacobson in Nottingham, is looking to complete a 10-race challenge in a year – including full and half marathons – to raise money for the charity Arthritis Care. Rickett, 27, has a special reason for his passion. He has been diagnosed with ankylosing ...
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Data page for March 2009
The data page is the financial rates and data compiled for the Law Society Gazette by MoneyFacts Group, the UK's largest supplier of savings and mortgage data. DownloadsDownload the Data Page for March 2009 below ...
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Barty calls it a day – after 54 years
Winston Churchill retired, Ruth Ellis was hanged and Bill Haley rocked around the clock. In the same year – 1955 – John Barty qualified as a solicitor. He’s been practising in Bournemouth ever since, mainly as partner and senior partner with Rendall Litchfield, now part of Rawlins Davy. After 54 ...
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Society seeks urgent talks after Abbey cuts panel
The Law Society is to hold urgent talk with retail bank Abbey next week after reports that the bank has removed many firms from its approved panel of solicitors without notice. This has affected new start-ups, sole practices and firms not instructed by Abbey for ...
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Abbey strikes thousands from conveyancing panel
Hundreds of solicitors across England and Wales reacted with shock and dismay last week after mortgage provider Abbey halved the size of its panel for residential conveyancing. Some 6,050 law firm offices have been removed from the 12,000-strong panel as part of a rationalisation ...
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Abbey panel consolidation – update
Abbey has declined to reinstate 542 law firm offices removed from its conveyancing panel but will be writing today (27 March) to all those affected by the consolidation exercise. All will have an opportunity to reapply to join a panel consolidating Abbey’s panel members with those of Alliance & Leicester, ...
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FSA proposes greater client account protection
Client money held in solicitors’ bank accounts could be given far greater protection in the event of a bank collapse, under changes proposed by the Financial Services Authority. The FSA is suggesting increasing the upper limit of compensation for ‘temporary high balances’, which includes money held ...
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Family legal aid fees will leave solicitors worse off
The proposed fixed fees for family legal aid work will leave solicitors worse off, according to a Law Society survey published today.
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Tories ponder ways to alleviate legal aid ‘crisis’
A contingency legal aid fund and private sector investment are among proposals being considered by the Conservatives to overhaul a legal aid system ‘in crisis’, shadow justice secretary Dominic Grieve QC told the Gazette in an interview published today on our website.
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Allen & Overy hosts launch of pioneering share index
The world’s first stockmarket index for professional services firms was launched this week at the City of London headquarters of magic circle firm Allen & Overy. A key aim of the initiative is to educate analysts and institutional investors about the potential benefits of investing ...
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MoJ announces new wave of domestic violence courts
Eighteen specialist courts are to open to help victims of domestic violence, the Ministry of Justice has announced. The new courts, in eastern England, East Midlands, London, the north-east, north-west, south-west, West Midlands and Yorkshire and Humberside will take the total of specialist domestic violence courts to 122. ...
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Pro bono winners urged to apply for costs
The former attorney general has urged pro bono lawyers to use new legislation to apply for costs when they win a case, to support wider access to justice. Lord Goldsmith told City Law School’s pro bono fair that lawyers doing pro bono cases can apply for costs orders under section ...