New plans for efficiently dealing with the complaints handling system. Television series review and benefits of membership to the Law Society.

Gazette, 23 June 1999

EditorialThe time for decisive action on complaints handling is overdue.

This week the Law Society’s Council will consider a package of proposals aimed at sorting out complaints handling once and for all. The package, although requiring a significant investment initially, offers the chance to clear the enormous backlog of 17,000 cases and to deal with all complaints within three months from December 2000.

Gazette, June 1969

Television series about a solicitor’s officeOn Wednesday 18 June a new programme begins on Independent Television called The Main Chance. The series is fiction and is about solicitors. There are no cosy images of the fireside solicitor dozing his way through a comfortable eleven-to-four life. David Main, a young London solicitor, is a man of the Seventies. His office, in one of the greener parts of London, is open plan. His secretaries young, ‘with-it’, intelligent. The atmosphere urgent, at times frenetic, always compelling.

Gazette, June 1909

Membership of the Law SocietyBy becoming Members of the Law Society, solicitors are entitled, in addition to receiving the Society’s monthly Gazette and Registry, to advice on points of professional custom and practice, and to all the advantages of a well-managed London club, as follows:

1. Reading and writing rooms, with the current daily and weekly papers and magazines, the daily Cause Lists, News Agency Tape, and parliamentary papers.

2. Luncheon and dining rooms, with the right to introduce guests.
3. Smoking and refreshment rooms and dressing rooms.

The annual subscription is, for Town Members, £2 2s., and for Country Members, £1 1s.