News – Page 168
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NewsTop 100 to cut shrinking practice areas
Public sector and personal injury are in the sights of finance directors.
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NewsNational mediation initiative gets under way
New hubs established ahead of compulsory information and assessment meetings.
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NewsMore law firms face unrated PII threat
Survey results come weeks before the SRA decides whether to ban unrated insurers from the market after a glut of collapses in recent years.
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NewsDuncan Lewis in recruitment push
UK’s largest legal aid firm is looking to recruit in the wake of collapsed providers that have left an ‘advice desert’ in Birmingham.
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NewsMoJ heralds ‘Wi-Fi era’
Bromley Magistrates’ Court is the first magistrates’ court in London and one of the first in the country to be equipped with video presentation technology.
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Promotions point to progress on gender equality
Female promotions at DAC Beachcroft and Linklaters increased significantly since last year.
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Firms rebuked over compliance failure
Three more firms have been rebuked for not having compliance officers in place by the start of 2013.
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Legal friendship across the pond
Manchester Law Society has signed a friendship agreement with the Philadelphia Bar to form and develop a working relationship.
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Wigan law firms merge
Long-standing Wigan firms Alker & Ball and Healds Solicitors are to merge.
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Litigation funding injection
Calunius Capital has announced a fresh injection of £50m into its legal investment fund.
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NewsFury at MP’s ‘solicitor from hell’ question to prime minister
North-west firm posts online statement following House of Commons question.
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NewsLawyers predict fee bonanza if Scots go it alone
Scottish solicitors expect ‘piles of work’ but government legal jobs in England would disappear.
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NewsBlacklaws quits troubled Co-Op
Leading family lawyer Christina Blacklaws has left Co-operative Legal Services to set up an ABS consultancy.
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NewsEversheds asks partners for capital following tax changes
The firm is seeking capital from partners following a crackdown by HMRC to clarify the definition of LLP membership.
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NewsFinancial services business snaps up Simpson Millar in £15m deal
National consumer firm to become part of a stock-market quoted financial services business.
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NewsCommission presses ahead with ‘equal merit’ diversity preference
From 1 July, the Judicial Appointments Commission will be able to select candidates by race or gender where two applicants are of equal merit.
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NewsJohn rages at ‘illiterate rantings’ of diversity report critics
Professor Gus John has dismissed as ‘wild and baseless’ criticisms of his report into the SRA.
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NewsPI lawyers may turn to arbitration post-Mitchell
Arbitration might be attractive in cases such as catastrophic injury, where lawyers are concerned about courts refusing to admit evidence due to missed timetables.
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NewsLinklaters promotes a record number of women to partner
Partner promotions at Linklaters fell from 24 to 21, but nine were women.