News – Page 56
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NewsCriminal bar 'incensed' over £93k salary for CPS posts
Criminal Bar Association chief says members are enduring 'hard slog with none of the benefits'.
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NewsPrice transparency: bar approves two-tier regime
Traditionally instructed barristers and chambers will escape requirement to publish price lists.
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NewsDone deal: Firm completes £10m Oxford signing
Enlarged practice expected to result in 30% profit margin.
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NewsLitigation funder buoyant after acquisition
ME Group says it has completed deal to buy Quanta Capital and expects to announce further moves.
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NewsDWF to go ahead with £600m stock market float
International practice set to become the largest listed law firm.
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NewsClaims farmer sets up law firm to manage whole PI process
National Accident Helpline will restructure its business ahead of reforms.
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NewsBorder force: Dentons enjoys Scottish merger lift
Global firm reveals success of Scottish tie-up while Clyde & Co also reports 2017-18 financial results.
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NewsAccountants winning in 'rapidly expanding' alternative legal services market
Nearly a quarter of large firms say they have lost work to one of the Big Four.
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NewsGCs threaten to pull their millions from 'largely male and white' firms
Law firm partners are told that hiring a diversity and inclusion officer is not enough.
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NewsYoung legal aid lawyers urged to take their MPs to work
Practitioner group wants politicians and the public to see what is happening on the ground.
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NewsJob losses as rescued legal costs firm back in administration
Practice had strong links with the PI sector but struggled as its law firm partners collapsed.
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NewsCorners may need to be cut to avoid burnout, family chief warns
Sir Andrew McFarlane says lawyers and judges should discuss how early or late it is acceptable for the courts to sit.
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NewsShare price tumbles after Gordon Dadds makes £10m funding call
Company says it wants to take ‘swift advantage’ of opportunities in legal and professional services sectors.
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NewsLaw Society attacks LSB governance proposals
’Significant concerns’ that rules could make disagreements between regulators more likely.
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NewsCompensate solicitors over IT failure, Society urges MoJ
Justice minister Lucy Frazer says disruption caused by 'infrastructure failure in supplier's data centre'.
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News'Sigh of relief' as GCs escape City accountability regime
Financial Conduct Authority says legal privilege would have restricted it from carrying out usual supervisory processes.
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NewsHome-buying reservation agreements to be tested this year
Housing minister Heather Wheeler says home buyers and sellers should have 'skin in the game'.
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NewsMoJ rejects hack speculation as efforts continue to end IT disruption
Digital specialist suggests ageing infrastructure is a major problem for the department.
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NewsCourts IT meltdown: Trials delayed, jurors left waiting and lawyers struggle to get paid
Ministry of Justice says it is pressing suppliers for 'urgent solutions' as practitioners highlight their struggles.
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NewsConfident Keystone forecasts profits ahead of expectations
Listed firm which encourages remote working now has around 290 lawyers in the network.