A student who once sought to be president of the Cambridge Union and was an Allen & Overy trainee solicitor has been sacked over an article he wrote that reportedly plagiarised a Financial Times article. Sachin Parathalingham had written an article for The Tab which was a substantial copy of an FT article leading to […]
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The Lawyer in the UK are preparing for the publication of the “Hot List” of the lawyers and their pre-publication excitement has lead to the publication of four lawyers named in the list previously and how the honour has changed their professional, if not personal lives. Excited? Well, whatever. The first up is the Royal
The global expansion of numerous British law firms has been one of the phenomena of recent years – but has the empire-building been something that the lawyers can hang on to and be proud of? The Spectator’s William Cash has written that many of the top lawyers suffer from “group think” – .. it is not
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London media law firm Carter Ruck has been crudely mocked via a cloned website – Farter-fuck – in retaliation for an IT business that claims it was “wrongfully persecuted” by the lawyers. The site at Farter-fuck.co.uk will redirect Carter Ruck clients to the site after a short time spent looking at the preliminary comments referring
Slater and Gordon, the law firm poster child-turned basket case, has been a shocking example of how law firms might ‘go public’ and embrace the new age of deregulated law practice, drowning in a sea of debt and bad news days. Since buying listed firm Quindell, Slater and Gordon’s fortunes turned south spectacularly with much
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The UK child sex abuse inquiry has not only become riven by resignations, but is the most expensive enquiry in UK history – with now five lawyers having resigned from the enquiry having been paid over £3million has already been paid out to lawyers involved in the child sex abuse inquiry amid claims. The inquiry’s top
The bigger the law firm, the younger the age – so reports a research report from Edward Drummond, a law firm consultancy. The report showed that 72 per cent of partners at the UK’s top 10 law firms are 50 years or younger, while this the figure for the UK overall is 60 per cent.
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Clifford Chance – Following the UK’s vote to leave the European Union, multinationals face a range of challenges. At two recent Clifford Chance seminars in London, our experts shared their views on what Brexit means for multinationals outside the financial services sector, focusing on the business and legal impact. There is still considerable uncertainty as
The death of millionaire lawyer John Jones in April, who represented Wikileaks’ Julian Assange among others, is an apparent suicide that has friends, colleagues and clients asking “Why?” With no evident reason to do so, and little reported in the media, the question of why he might have done so is increasing in intensity. John
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British PM Theresa May has joined the chorus of delight over the closure of a law firm that pursued what one newspaper called a “Witch Hunt” of British soldiers. The PM said she was “very pleased” that the firm, Public Interest Lawyers, was to close this month. The government has already said that it was
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