News – Page 93
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NewsSimpson Millar owner reviews business amid job loss speculation
Fairpoint Group consulting with staff on 'certain structural changes'.
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NewsBoost for sole practitioners as HSBC raises conveyancing threshold
Mortgage threshold for solicitors with Law Society kitemark more than doubles to £350,000.
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NewsFirm’s innovation puts clients together with sports stars
Manchester firm creates online platform already used by 150 athletes looking to a career after sport.
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NewsMishcon’s £1m ID fraud bill sounds alarm bells
City firm's client was duped into buying a London property from a tenant posing as the owner.
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Brexit: mutual recognition hope for lawyers
Lord Maude of Horsham says continuation likely because the ‘benefits on both sides’ were now well-established.
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NewsSolicitors from poorer backgrounds earn £6,800 less than ‘privileged’ colleagues
Social mobility research uncovers ‘class ceiling’ in traditional professions such as the law.
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NewsSociety report: solicitors ready for ‘automation revolution’
Landmark Law Society study considers how firms should embrace technologies that were 'unimaginable even a decade ago’.
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NewsABS bought out of administration to save 215 jobs
National firm DWF announces acquisition of Triton Global.
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KWM administrators reveal contact with SRA
Administrators blame partner departures for collapse of King & Wood Mallesons’ European arm.
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Employment specialists warn against online tribunals
Online system should not be compulsory, Employment Lawyers Association says.
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NewsAsons keeps quiet over rental income
Rightmove advertisement suggests Bolton law firm may pocket rental income from refurbished building.
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NewsWeightmans and Ward Hadaway in merger talks
Top 100 firms in ‘early stage talks’ about tieup that would create £130m firm.
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NewsFirms unite to meet demand from international insurance clients
DAC Beachcroft in alliance with German, US and Australian counterparts.
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NewsReed Smith takes team of 50 from collapsed KWM
International firm hires team of partners associates and trainees.
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News‘Para-law’ firm boasts of bypassing solicitors
Legal Case Management says it can hive off the bulk of case work to ‘skilled, unregulated paralegals’.
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NewsLaw firm rescue saves 44 jobs – but creditors could lose £3m
Carter Law placed into liquidation and remains of the firm bought by former director.
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NewsLaw firms dominate Stonewall ranking of inclusive employers
Practices and individuals praised for their contribution to promoting LGBT issues in the workplace.
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NewsNews focus: from billion-dollar firm to administration – what went wrong at KWM
Firm slipped into administration yesterday following months of uncertainty.
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NewsFTSE giants launch GC network to tackle rule of law failures
Network - including Vodafone, BP, HSBC and others - will be chaired by Graham Vinter, formerly GC of BG Group, who is now at Covington & Burling.
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NewsCouncil tight-lipped over audit into ‘secret’ £300k law firm grant
KPMG carrying out audit into deal with PI firm, but Bolton council yet to reveal publication date.