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Row, row, row your boat...
It looks like the boys are attempting to go one better than the girls in the endurance rowing stakes. The star of last week's Obiter, Carolyn Kirkham, rowed from London to Paris - but Charlie Marlow, a 26-year-old solicitor from City firm Charles Russell, is attempting to follow in the ...
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In-house counsel ready to look beyond hourly fees
TOOLKIT: C&I to offer advice on alternative charging methods In-house counsel are to be encouraged to use ...
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More banks could face OFT raids
The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) could raid more banks as it widens its investigation into alleged price fixing by Barclays and Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS), a competition lawyer has warned. The OFT raided the two banks following a tip-off from Barclays that there was alleged collusion ...
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LawWorks chief awarded CBE
Paul Newdick, a partner at Clyde & Co and chairman of LawWorks, has received a CBE for services to pro bono legal services in the latest Queen's birthday honours.
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Appeals procedures
I do not agree with John Ford's claim that legal aid costs appeals are being unfairly undertaken (see [2008] Gazette, 5 June, 12). I would like to reassure Mr Ford that the Legal Services Commission's (LSC) South Tyneside (formerly Newcastle) office deals with each request ...
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Wealth adviser targets law
LEGAL SERVICES ACT: expenses insurer DAS names Bristol quarry A leading wealth and talent management company has signalled its intention ...
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Call for advice centre evaluation
REPORT: fears raised over independence of CLACs as government announces six more The Advice Services Alliance (ASA) has warned that the new community legal advice centres (CLACs) might not be sufficiently independent of funding bodies to avoid conflicts of interest, as the government unveils plans for six new ...
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Unregistered solicitors risk Data Protection Act breach
Solicitors who are not registered under the Data Protection Act will be presumed to be in breach of the act, the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) warned this week. The ICO revealed that recent prosecutions of London solicitors are part of a blanket crackdown on solicitors and ...
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Lawyers attack accounting exemption for foreign LLPs
TRADING: 'obvious unfairness' on financial statements Leading lawyers have criticised the government's decision not to force overseas limited liability ...
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Accidents happen – but what can be published?
Media law update: PCC privacy adjudication, Paul Kirkland and Wiltshire Gazette & Herald
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Magic circle firm Linklaters promotes 28 to the partnership
PRIVATE PRACTICE Partners Kicking off in London, US firm McDermott Will & Emery recruits John P Cogan Jr as partner and head of global projects and infrastructure, based in ...
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Firms face £10,000 fine for unregistered foreign staff
EMPLOYMENT: only one legal practice signed up with agency
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Salary survey reveals
By Anita Rice Black and minority ethnic (BME) solicitors earn 17% less than white solicitors, while women solicitors earn 7.6% ...
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Test story for Obiter
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Which way next?
If Which? is to move from being an independent critic of legal services to set up its own law firm (see [2008] Gazette, 29 May, 1), then it can hardly claim to be 'the brand that conveys... credibility'. Perhaps it should change its name from 'Which?' to 'Us'. ...
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No logo
Why does the Law Society need to spend £450,000 on a national advertising campaign? Surely all we need to do is follow the example of our colleagues in the surveyor's profession and utilise the logo of our representative body. We all like the Law Society's logo. Your correspondents repeatedly lament ...
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Shining a light
Ministers need guidance on anti-terror legislation, but can judges properly give it to them?
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Luxury lifestyles
I have just read last week's front page article, 'City litigators dismiss "liability crisis" claim'. It brought to mind the recent case of Office of Fair Trading v Abbey National PLC and others. In that one case, where the various financial institutions effectively sang from the ...