It may be over 150 years old, but Scottish law firm Tods Murray LLP has struggled to meets costs and was placed in administration this week. The result is likely to be the loss of around 50 law jobs. Tods Murray was bought out by rival law firm Shepherd & Wedderburn following the appointment […]
What is it really like to be a personal injury lawyer? And what advice does British personal injury lawyer Michael Pace have for those facing an insurer with their “recommended law firm”? Take them, or not? Writing in the Lincolnshire Echo, Michael Pace talks about the challenges facing both personal injury lawyer and client in
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Tennis ace Martina Navratilova scored a win with Squire Patton Bogg’s Birmingham office when she appeared at a client breakfast to discuss diversity issues. The firm has adopted a diversity initiative following the recent ‘Aspire to Inspire’ discussion discussing women role models in the lawChaired by Monique Sutherland, partner and UK Diversity Chair at the
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Global law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer announced today the appointment of two US-based attorneys—Mitchell Presser, who becomes head of Freshfields’ US M&A practice, and James Douglas, who joins as head of the firm’s US leveraged finance practice—as partners in the firm’s New York office. Recognizing clients’ increasing need for international experience in global dealmaking, Freshfields
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The use of backoffice services by law firms has been a developing trend for some years, but now Baker & McKenzie are creating up to 250 jobs in Belfast, welcome news for the struggling city, in a move that will create a “global services centre” (Read: lower cost support services). The move by the global
Are law firms doing encourage to encourage diversity? The issue continues as more students from diverse socio-economic backgrounds find it a struggle to make it to the boardroom table in law firms.But maybe things are changing on the diversity front. The data collected by law firms in terms of the lawyers employed who come from
Slaughter and May advised Ocado Group plc (Ocado) on a new £100 million unsecured three year revolving credit facility with Abbey National Treasury Services Plc, Barclays Bank PLC, HSBC Bank plc and The Royal Bank of Scotland plc. The purpose of the new facility is to enhance Ocado’s flexibility to support its UK expansion.
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Law firm scams – run by non-lawyer scam artists – are being set up to fleece “clients” using websites stolen from legitimate law firms.The picture above purports to be a London, UK law firm – Dovernor – but it is in fact an image taken from a legitimate US law firm using a picture of
Personal injury lawyer Alan Bacon runs personal injury claims for UK law firm BTMK Solicitors and writes about the ‘factory processes’ controlling the personal injury business, which has undermined consumer confidence in personal injury litigation. It appears that a number of firms have entered the ‘under settlement market’ or are gearing up to do so,
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Scottish law firm Harper MacLeod has done a deal with a private client specialist Bird Semple that will lead to considerable expansion in turnover for the law firm which will have one of the largest private client practices in Scotland. Bird Semple, which can trace its roots back to 1845 and has its main office
