All News articles – Page 281
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NewsNews focus: 'Economic chaos' - should law firms be worried?
Law firms are insulated from economic shockwaves – until banks, other lenders and investors get cold feet. And profitable areas of work such as M&As could be hit as corporate clients retrench.
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NewsHugh James swoops for north-west PI firm
Potter Rees Dolan acquisition adds £7m in revenues to top-100 outfit.
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News'Fight or die': solicitors handed strategy for legal aid action
Former Criminal Bar Association secretary says commercial silk should be instructed to review ‘unfair’ government contract.
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NewsBaby loss campaigning solicitor ramps up fight for statutory paid leave
Solicitor secures a 10-minute bill in parliament and HR policies being re-drafted across the profession.
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NewsMPs clamour to toughen new economic crime bill
Law Society repeats its concerns about new unlimited fining power for the SRA.
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NewsFirm hires: Primas Law strengthens employment team
Solicitor Holly Navarro and executive assistant Rebecca Bloxsome join the north west corporate and commercial legal practice.
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NewsWeinstein whistleblower: ‘nothing has changed’ on NDA rules
Zelda Perkins says her biggest problems started ‘the moment I was in a room with a lawyer’.
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NewsHow we lost our freedoms – read all about it
We have five copies of Adam Wagner's new book 'Emergency State' to give away to Gazette readers.
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NewsCleared solicitor says £43k personal costs bill is 'grossly unfair'
Maya Nisa-Zaman, who owns Birmingham firm MZ Law Solicitors, says two-year SRA investigation has put her in debt.
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NewsThe longest walk of all
Museum of London's new exhibition on public executions is a sober effort to bring together the rarely told human stories behind events both terrifying and terminal.
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NewsTreat overseas register regime 'like AML compliance with bells on', solicitors told
Verification process for information submitted to register of overseas entities discussed at Law Society conference.
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NewsCity firms publicly pledge to treat legal apprentices equally
Norton Rose Fulbright says people must be recruited and promoted based on talent and merit alone.
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NewsEmailed invoice was valid, judge tells non-paying client
Court rules in favour of firm and gives welcome relief on the issue of invoices sent by email.
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NewsLegislation paves the way for electronic trade documents
Electronic Trade Documents Bill will put digital trade documents on the same legal footing as their paper-based equivalents.
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NewsCity executive banned for fabricating Legal 500 emails
Lewis Silkin employee missed directory’s submission deadline.
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NewsLenders see conveyancers 'as their in-house legal team'
Law Society conference reveals tension between conveyancers and mortgage lenders over responsibilities.
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News‘Less opera and cricket’: Vos calls for workplace chat to change
Master of the rolls says older white men in particular should look at how they interact with colleagues.
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NewsSuper-regulator to probe CILEX civil war
LSB cites 'apparent breakdown in relationship between CILEX and CRL and consequential breakdown of trust and communication'.
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NewsWarm words in a blast from the past
The wheels of justice grind slow. But that’s not always a bad thing.