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NewsTributes paid to ‘innovative’ local government lawyer
Local government solicitors have paid tribute to a ‘formidable’ property and planning specialist who helped to establish a Norfolk-based shared legal service eight years ago. Chris Skinner, practice director at nplaw, died on his 59th birthday last Tuesday at Norfolk and Norwich Hospital. Skinner, who had Guillain-Barré syndrome, had been ...
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NewsDAC Beachcroft set to complete second raid on a rival firm
Complex injury teams to join from Clyde & Co.
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Top firms back legal innovation centre at university
Ulster centre 'will be at the forefront of advancing the use of technology-driven innovation in legal services'.
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NewsFounding pro bono charter signatories revealed
Law Society president Robert Bourns praises solicitors’ 'unsung’ work
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NewsFailure to switch off from work ‘killing’ professionals, research shows
Neuroscientists find link between ‘work-related rumination’ and heart problems.
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NewsNew protests over legal aid cuts
Meetings have been organised in Hull, Cheshire, Merseyside and London this month.
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NewsCreditors lose £5m as failing law firm sold at knock-down value
Companies House document shows full extent of sums owed by national ABS Triton Global.
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NewsSuper-regulator announces Law Society-SRA governance probe
Chancery Lane welcomes opportunity to clarify statutory duty of oversight.
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NewsDon’t panic over Gulf exodus, sector experts say
Clifford Chance, Herbert Smith Freehills and Weil Gotshal have all announced they are leaving the region.
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NewsLSB ‘not stepping back’ from diversity role
Oversight body has published ‘less prescriptive’ guidance for regulators.
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NewsFreshfields puts pen to paper on new City home
Magic circle firm will be based at 100 Bishopsgate from 2021.
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NewsBe more diverse or we’ll withhold 10% of your fees, IT giant tells firms
US technology company HP issues diversity mandate, telling law firms ‘we can all do better’.
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Litigation funder launches $200m US investment vehicle
IMF Bentham launches $200m vehicle to finance US cases and investments.
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NewsSolicitors to ‘vociferously oppose’ fee cuts
Criminal law groups say Ministry of Justice plans to reform litigators’ graduated fee scheme are ill-conceived.
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NewsAsons pays £113,000 over ‘falsely and systematically’ exaggerated claims
Bolton-based personal injury firm settles dispute with insurer over costs in 65 claims.
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Ministry of Justice raised JAC chair salary by 44%
MoJ has also reduced the time commitment for the post from three to two days a week.
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NewsKWM: administrator’s report lays bare full story of collapse
SJ Berwin successor firm went down owning few assets other than work in progress and unpaid bills.
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City firm uses machine learning to speed up document analysis
CMS latest to adopt artificial intelligence technology in litigation, arbitration and investigations.
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NewsRota 'mistake' could cost firm £40,000
Wigan firm told it has not been allocated any slots on forthcoming crime duty rota.