All Obiter articles – Page 32
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News‘Warm banks’? Go and watch a trial
Still at the Crown court, Obiter was struck by the amount of spare seating available – especially at what, in days gone by, would have been the press benches.
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NewsTrainee takes a week off to compete for England
Meghan Pemberton bags silver medal after reaching final of the European Touch Championships.
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NewsAn actor’s insecurity
It’s the early 1960s and Michael Simmons has moved the City firm he acquired from Jonathan Sumption’s father to new premises in Blackfriars. The champagne corks pop but rapid growth also brings its headaches.
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NewsNew firm on a roll with parliament appointment
Boutique practice Bexley Beaumont is one of a select number of firms who are approved parliamentary agents.
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NewsThe pain and gain of partnership
Simpson asked rather casually if I wanted a partnership. This was the Everest in my career.
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NewsPhishing for headlines with a sample size of eight
Shock revelation that '25% of law firm employees' are prone to clicking on dodgy links.
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NewsLegal lionesses: the law firms backing women’s football
Long before Chloe Kelly and Ella Toone lit up Wembley, the legal profession was backing women’s football at all levels.
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NewsRolling out a ragged red carpet
MoJ finally gets round to sending ministers to take a look at a few courts.
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NewsIt’s never too late to join up
Simon Osborne, who qualified as a solicitor 1973, finally ‘graduates’.
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NewsDionysian exhibition in the Rolls
Millions of dollars’ worth of (arguably) ancient artefacts are lined up in the courtroom.
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NewsStreet writer
Solicitors' storylines on long-running soap Coronation Street branch out to lasting powers of attorney.
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NewsShort shrift for short sleeves?
The oppressive heat has led some lawyers to consider truly drastic measures.
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NewsBlackballed by the Major
It’s the dawn of the Swinging Sixties and newly demobbed Michael Simmons has landed a plum City job – with Jonathan Sumption’s father. Read on...
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News1747 and all that: Coodes celebrates 275 years
Firm founded under George II now has eight offices across Cornwall and Devon.
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NewsLove affair lands lawyer inside
US lawyer Mary Evans fell in love with Tim Kirk while he was serving a sentence for robbery.