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Lightening The Load
I read with interest the letter from Robert Venables, both expressing concerns about the propriety these days of advising anyone, particularly any professional, to become a trustee, while at the same time extolling the virtues of volunteer service (see [2005] Gazette, 13 October, 17). However, the adjoining letter from Zoe ...
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Moving on
PRIVATE PRACTICE Partners The most high-profile move this week sees Christopher Ashworth leave City firm Ashurst, where he was a former head of corporate, to join the London office transactions team of US firm O’Melveny & Myers. He will spearhead the firm’s European mergers and acquisitions practice. Two partners for ...
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Solicitors spurn new QC selection system
The new Queen's Counsel system has failed to boost the number of solicitors applying, it has emerged. Of the 443 applications received, just 12 were from solicitors, compared to ten of the 394 who applied in the final competition run by the government in 2002/03, before the award's suspension. ...