News – Page 54
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NewsJudge ignores family commitment pleas to demand application
Criminal bar chief says representative bodies will draft their own protocol for reasonable working hours if they have to.
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NewsLiving wage: City told ‘stop thinking and start doing’
Campaign admits it has no evidence of law firms paying less than £10.55 per hour.
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NewsGateley partners secure £6m from market funding call
Accelerated bookbuild created to meet demand from potential investors in the business.
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NewsBar confident it can overcome ‘testosterone overdose’
Representative body says it has a number of initiatives to support women.
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NewsListed high-flier Gateley fights professional negligence claim
Case involves advice given to a British Virgin Islands-incorporated company in relation to a property development.
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NewsAshfords and Boyes Turner call off merger
Structural differences of Ashfords and Boyes Turner ’currently too far apart’.
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NewsRenewed call for quotas to help women become equity partners
Founder of groundbreaking project says too many senior women are promoted but have no voting power.
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Legal services business Axiom to list in New York
Announcement follows divestment of contracts intelligence and managed solutions subsidiaries.
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NewsBeware of IP pitfalls in merger deals, law firm warns
Regulators increasingly viewing IP-focussed M&A deals with suspicion, according to magic circle firm.
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NewsRetail collapses bring City firms £7m legal fees
DLA Piper and Jones Day among biggest billers dealing with spate of high street closures.
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NewsConveyancers under increasing pressure over leasehold advice
Professional negligence solicitor says his team has been contacted by 'several hundred' worried homeowners.
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NewsJudicial diversity? It's up to law firms, says lord chief justice
Lord Burnett asks what more needs to be done to create 'a properly diverse profession at its senior levels'.
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NewsRegional firm merges with London insolvency outfit
Harrison Clark Rickerbys will move into Sprecher Grier’s London office.
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NewsLinklaters former director agrees to keep silent
High Court judgment reveals litigation over ‘women in workplace’ disclosure has come to an end by agreement.
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NewsLaw Society Group reports 9% gender pay gap
Imbalance at the top and salary sacrifice arrangements contribute to difference, Chancery Lane says.
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NewsPartnership model hampering lawtech take-up
Research for Law Society finds technology adoption less mature than in other sectors such as finance.
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NewsMPs demand answers over 'limited opportunities' for recorders
Lord chancellor David Gauke is asked to clarify Crown court capacity.
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NewsSolicitor rebuked for 'inbreeding' quip during meeting
Mark Greenburgh found in breach of SRA principle to maintain public trust in legal services.
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NewsLawyers were paid over £3m for advice on doomed ‘Garden Bridge’
BDB Pitmans and Gowling WLG are among the biggest billers.
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NewsMajority of in-house teams will take to AI
Systems do not work 'straight out of the box' - or automatically replace humans, market study warns.