Joshua Rozenberg is the BBC’s former legal commentator and now writes for The Guardian and other publications on legal matters. This item on the retirement of the Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales When newspaper reporters retire, they are presented with dummy front pages in which their departure is the lead story. When a […]
Ian Jack writes a weekly column for the Guardian and has written widely on various matters, inckluding as a foreign correspondent. This op-ed piece is from The Guardian. Irony is a dangerous quality: it can return to haunt you. A few weeks before Prince William married Catherine Middleton in 2011, the Guardian published an
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MANCHESTER, England, July 23, 2013 – LawFuel.com- The Best UK Law Firm Newswire Service The UK’s top 50 law firms spend over £3 million a year with public relations agencies – new research out today reveals. The research, carried out Legal News Service (LNS) also finds: Failing to inspire the confidence of the partners and
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He may not be a lawyer, but UK investor, entrepreneur and television “Dragon’s Den” star James Caan is set on taking his law firm investment – in Midlands firm, Knights – right into the top ranks of UK’s legal business. The aggressive investor intends to make the break into the legal big time through acquisitions.
London partners Michael Hatchard, Karyl Nairn QC (pictured)and Scott Simpson have been included in the inaugural “Chambers 100,” the U.K.’s top 100 lawyers. Skadden is one of only two U.S. firms with as many as three partners ranked. Additionally, Mr. Simpson is the only U.S.-qualified transactional lawyer on the list, which is based on the attorneys’
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Clifford Chance may have suffered from a fall in partnership profits, but it hasn’t prevented the partners taking home £1 million each. Their profits are not quite what some of the Magic Circle firm’s rivals are making, with Linklaters partners taking more than £1.3 million in the financial year, and Freshfields partners taking home an
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LawFuel.com – The Law Firm News Website – Clyde & Co is delighted to announce the opening of its fourth US office in Atlanta on 19 June 2013. Clyde & Co’s new Atlanta operation will be led by partners Bob Fisher and James Chin who join the firm from Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi.
The Lawyer Awards ceremony took place in London on Tuesday, 25 June 2013 – a celebration of excellence in the legal profession attended by more than 1,400 lawyers. Taylor Wessing was recognised for innovation in the delivery of legal services to clients, ranging from the smallest start-up to the largest multinational, and for its strategically
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The ongoing search for missing British girl Madeleine McCann has created friction between British and Portugese authorities following the announcement from British police that they want to actively investigate the case of Madeleine’s disappearance in May 2007. The British police say they have identified 38 suspects in EUrope, but Portugese Attorney General Joana Marques Vidal
Fiona Shackleton is Britain’s most famous divorce lawyer. She represented Sir Paul McCartney when he divorced Heather Mills, a case that saw Mills’ achieve some further infamy when she poured water over Shackleton’s head. Now, Fiona Shackleton, who as a Conservative Party peer is properly entitled “Baroness Shackleton of Belgravia”, is being sued by a
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