Practice management – Page 90

  • News

    MPs censure pre-pack deals as Cobbetts takeover goes ahead

    2013-02-04T00:00:00Z

    ‘Pre-pack’ deals like the one that this week saved defunct law firm Cobbetts face new scrutiny, following a critical report by MPs.

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    Cobbetts set to go into administration

    2013-01-28T00:00:00Z

    National firm Cobbetts has announced it is seeking protection from creditors as a buyer is sought for the business.

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    DWF rides to rescue of Cobbetts

    2013-01-28T00:00:00Z

    National firm DWF has announced its intention to acquire troubled firm Cobbetts.

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    DWF expands national presence with new merger

    2013-01-14T00:00:00Z

    In the latest sign of consolidation in the legal sector, business firm DWF today announced a merger with insurance firm Fishburns.

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    Female partner boost at magic circle

    2012-05-03T00:00:00Z

    The number of women promoted to partnership at magic circle firms has risen by 50% - but they still make up just a quarter of all the promotions. A total of 95 solicitors were this week elected to partnership at the leading five firms. Of these, 24 were women - ...

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    A swift and sure way to computer disaster

    1998-06-28T00:00:00Z

    Here we go again. Just two years after a new government promised to break with Labour’s record of IT-based policy fiascoes, along comes a high-profile public policy reform which looks set to go down the same dismal road. The success of the revolution set out in the Swift and Sure ...

  • Feature

    Could the iPad revolutionise the way law firms do business?

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    Like several thousand other people, Lee Ranson, managing partner at Eversheds, bought an Apple iPad on 28 May, the day it went on sale. ‘We were converts,’ he says. Unlike many proud early owners, however, he saw the much-talked-about handheld computer not as an executive toy, but as a key ...