[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Big Name law firms are working to woo work from London’s fintech startups in the hope of building valuable business from the fast-growing sector.Fintech is likely to provide major disruption to the banking arena, but that digital disruption has not always been accompanied by a detailed legal analysis of the implications, which is where the […]
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Britain’s Mail Online took a solid shot at the UK law profession following the striking off of so-called ambulance chasing lawyer Phil Shiner.Shiner is a former Public Interest Lawyers solicitor who was found guilty on five counts by the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal who ordered him to pay interim costs of £250,000.But Mail Online columnist condemned the profession
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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Law firm Dechert have had massive, multi-million pound legal bills put into question and now face litigation over their fees to a large mining client.The £16m bill was charged to mining company ENRC, but a reversal in the UK High Court poses major problems for the legal giant.The Lawyer reports that the High Court decision lets ENRC
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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 his
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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 Mail’s Maaike de
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 just the
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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 to
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 reportage
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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 lawyer,
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. The
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