Law firms are lining up to get their hands on external cash post Legal Services Act deregulation…
The South Wales firm leads the way with it’s CO2 emissions per employee at skeletal 0.8 tonnes…
Freshfields hosted the so-called Red Knights group yesterday morning…
Negative headlines and mass redundancies don’t make for the best recruiting sergeants…
No one likes the thought of their hard earned taxes being wasted on the undeserving but…
If the stats from one particular website are anything to go by, the answer might be yes…
Yes? Then it could have something to do with your partners being subjected to Thomas the Tank Engine as children. If you naively thought it was just an innocent childrens’ series about characters based on choo choo trains, think again. It contains subversive “conservative political ideology” that “relegates females to supportive roles”.
Kennedys is set to launch an insurance team in Sheffield.
And that team is to come from Halliwells… all 70 of them.
US firm gets hero lawyer status after saving Christmas…
"Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime." So it went.
Or not so tough perhaps. TV’s, Playstations, ready access to home comforts, all part of the modern prison system. And it may not be such a bad thing if it helps to rehabilitate some of our burgeoning prison population.
But there should probably be some limits to this liberal approach to imprisonment. The Sun reports prison guards at Verne Prison in Portland, Dorset unwittingly allowed convicted drug dealer, Mohamed …
First Bruno pushed the boundaries of taste and humour. Now it might squeeze the boundaries of Sacha Baron Cohen’s wallet if this lawsuit gets anywhere. The Mail reports that:
Comedian Sacha Baron Cohen is being sued for £70million in libel damages over his film Bruno.
Ayman Abu Aita, a Palestinian grocer and peace activist from Bethlehem, says the depiction of him in the movie has ruined his life.
In Bruno, Cohen’s gay character claims to travel to the Ein El-Hilweh refugee camp …
The City has had a feast of fees following the banking crisis.
Slaughter and May is expected to receive a total of £32.9m for legal advice between September 2007 to next March, dwarfing any other law firm on this front. Elsewhere, £32.6m was shared between PricewaterhouseCoopers, KPMG and BDO Stoy Harward. And Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, Citi, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley were on the payrole for financial advice.
In total the Treasury has paid …
Taylor Wessing joins a number of firms that have posted drops in revenue for the first half of the financial year.
The firm generated total fee income of £77m in the first six months of the year compared with around £90m for the same period in 2008-09.
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Camerons and Ashurst see double digit revenue falls
Addleshaws, Nabarro, Halliwells post significant declines
Linklaters Loses its Lustre
Whilst it might not stack up much compared to these guys, it’s still pretty solid given the events of last year.
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According to Legal Week , accounts filed with Companies House last week show that Linklaters’ highest-paid partner took home £2.5m in the 2008-09 financial year. It is nearly £1m less than the highest earner last year but whoever it is shouldn’t be complaining.
Linklaters generated revenues of £1.298bn representing a 0.4% increase on …
Another week, another Ponzi scheme. And this time it’s another lawyer. Scott Rothstein, a South Florida attorney is facing federal criminal charges that he operated an investment fraud scheme using faked legal settlements. His firm asked federal prosecutors to investigate after as much as $500 million in missing investor funds went missing (Bloomberg ).
The FBI has estimated Rothstein’s fraud at $1 billion. Prosecutors are expected to file criminal racketeering charges against Rothstein when he appears in federal court today.
Rothstein’s …
There are various ways lawyers have found to rip-off their clients but this one has a particularly neat simplicity to it.
Trevor Hobden, 47, was struck off after the Solicitors’ Disciplinary Tribunal heard that he charged clients by the weight of their files. And it’s not like he even used a set of scales in the process. Asked by investigators how he calculated fees Hobden said: ‘When you cost a file you put …
It is clear now (it took a couple of decades) that women are equally able when it comes to doing the top jobs in the legal profession. Much has been made in recent years of gender equality and much has been done – 20% of partners in the top 100 are now female. So the stats are improving even if they have some way to go – the Magic Circle proved less inclusive on the ‘equality scale ’ than …
Bringing some added beauty to the bar – the underdog beautician who kicked some legal behinds…
When Georgina Blackwell, a 23 year old Essex beautician saw off a team of barristers in court, she might just have kickstarted a promising legal career for herself. Lined up against a legal team representing Bellway Homes, she managed to overturn a previous High Court judgment and in the process win her mother £75,000 compensation.
And on the back of that she has won a …
Further evidence of a tough first half…
CMS Cameron McKenna posted a 13% decrease in half-year revenues, with fee income falling to £95.3m for the first half of the 2009-10 financial year.
Ashurst, meanwhile has seen revenues fall by 14% for the first half of the financial year to £136m for the period ending 31 October. Last year Ashurst posted £158m in the same period.
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Addleshaws, Nabarro, Halliwells post significant declines
Linklaters Loses its Lustre
Stephenson Harwood on the up
With difficulty. As with most things the easy answer for successive governments has been to increase tax but continual increases don’t seem to prevent our towns and cities being kebab strewn and awash with puke every Sunday.
In a bid to alleviate some of the booze culture north of the border, Scottish ministers have been campaigning for minimum pricing of alcohol. Dr Brian Keighley, chairman of the British Medical Association in Scotland has described Scotland’s alcohol consumption rates as “staggering ” …
