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Mayer Brown and FFW cuts add to legal job woes
Posted on November 21, 2008The UK legal industry was hit with a fresh wave of job losses today with confirmation that Mayer Brown is looking to cut 11 lawyers and Field Fisher Waterhouse has entered redundancy talks with over half of its support staff.
UBS client challenges Swiss plan to end bank secrecy
Posted on November 21, 2008An American client of UBS has gone to court to challenge Switzerland?s controversial plan to divulge details of once-secret bank accounts to US investigators.
Bernie Ecclestone turns to Charman divorce lawyer
Posted on November 21, 2008The lawyer acting for Formula One boss Bernie Ecclestone in his divorce proceedings was involved in the split which led to the largest court-awarded divorce deal in legal history.
Michael Jackson to testify in person in High Court battle
Posted on November 20, 2008London's High Court will play host to a superstar next week when Michael Jackson testifies in person to contest a claim that he owes millions of pounds to an Arab sheikh.
Marco Pierre White loses privacy case
Posted on November 20, 2008Marco Pierre White lost his privacy action yesterday against lawyers acting for his wife who obtained his private documents.
Baroness Hale: new equality laws will not close gender gap
Posted on November 20, 2008Britain?s most senior woman judge gave warning last night that the Government?s proposed overhaul of equality laws would not close the pay or gender gap.
Legal fees to be squeezed under new accounting rules
Posted on November 20, 2008Commercial lawyers already under pressure to reduce fees as the market worsens are facing a new challenge with the introduction of new accounting rules governing M&A transactions.
Conrad Black asks George Bush for clemency
Posted on November 20, 2008Conrad Black, the peer who once owned The Daily Telegraph, has asked for a pardon from President Bush as part of a last ditch attempt to get out of jail early.
Wife of billionaire F1 boss Bernie Ecclestone files for divorce
Posted on November 20, 2008The wife of the Formula One tycoon Bernie Ecclestone confirmed yesterday that she is leaving her husband after 24 years of marriage.
Madonna and Guy Ritchie agree divorce settlement over £300million fortune
Posted on November 20, 2008Alpha Mummy: Can you really 'share' children?
Asbestos cancer victims win High Court fight for mesothelioma insurance payouts
Posted on November 20, 2008Thousands of victims of a fatal asbestos-related lung cancer are in line for six-figure sums in compensation after a victory today that lands insurers with a multi-million pound bill.
Court action aims to save rare insects from lorries
Posted on November 19, 2008Thurrock An attempt began yesterday to stop a patch of land described as one of the country?s top three insect homes being turned into a lorry park and warehouse.
Mother denies author Constance Briscoe's allegations of childhood abuse
Posted on November 19, 2008The mother of Constance Briscoe broke down in tears at the High Court yesterday as she denied allegations set out by her daughter in a bestselling memoir.
Solicitor accused of aiding 'bogus' trade in feudal titles
Posted on November 19, 2008A solicitor was accused yesterday of being at the centre of a dishonest trade in bogus feudal titles sold to Americans and other foreigners.
Google book search deal is good news for copyright law
Posted on November 19, 2008As with many legal systems, the copyright framework in most countries is slow to evolve. Every now and then, however, there is a game-changing event. The recent agreement in the US between Google, the search giant, and American publishers may be just that.
The £60 million makeover: new building, new law lords, new postcode
Posted on November 19, 2008There are just eight days left to apply for what must be the hottest jobs in the judiciary ? the first specifically appointed posts in the new supreme court. There are three vacancies, as three law lords will retire between now and the start of the court next autumn (Lord Hoffmann, Lord Carswell and Lord Scott of Foscote)...
The Water Cooler
Posted on November 19, 2008* Will the retirement age of judges be raised? Those appointed since 1993 have had to go at 70. But now that judges are tending to be appointed later in their careers (fewer these days can afford to give up their lawyers? earnings to go on the bench) should they be allowed to go on for longer? Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers seems to think so...
No more sniggering, sleazy tales about the sex lives of celebrities
Posted on November 19, 2008?Hypocrite!? cry the lawyers and privacy claimants. Well they might. The outrageous claim by Paul Dacre, Editor of the Daily Mail, that Mr Justice Eady is condoning ?depraved? practices by applying the law is rich, coming from him.
Lawyer of the Week: Nick Trenticosta
Posted on November 19, 2008Nick Trenticosta runs the Centre for Equal Justice in the US, a non-profit, post-conviction law firm representing people on death row. He has been giving talks in London, Brighton and Cambridge for Pro Bono Week, and encouraging people to join Amicus, which sends interns to the US to assist capital defence attorneys...
Jobs: be careful how you ring changes
Posted on November 19, 2008With unemployment predicted to rise above three million, many employers are starting to plan on how to cut their wage bills. While BT and Citibank have announced that thousands of their jobs will go, City law firms report that surprisingly few employers have yet decided on large-scale redundancies...
In the City: Collyer Bristow and the Quantum of Solace
Posted on November 19, 2008Quantum of solicitors
Bribery law reform focuses on overseas work
Posted on November 19, 2008A radical overhaul of bribery laws proposed today by the Law Commission could make British companies liable to prosecution for any corruption in their activities overseas. It would also usher in a new offence of bribing a foreign public official.
95% of violence victims do not seek compensation
Posted on November 19, 2008Fewer than 5 per cent of victims of violent crime bother to claim compensation ? in some cases of up to half a million pounds, MPs say today.
We did nothing wrong in making millions out of sick miners, law firm tells tribunal
Posted on November 19, 2008A law firm that earned £141 million from a government industrial disease compensation scheme denied yesterday that it had exploited sick miners and their families.
OFT merger chief Simon Pritchard to join Allen & Overy
Posted on November 19, 2008The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has lost its second senior executive to a law firm this month with Simon Pritchard, the regulator?s senior director for mergers, set to join Allen & Overy.
Law firm denies exploiting sick miners
Posted on November 19, 2008Beresford Solicitors, the law firm, today denied exploiting sick miners and their families and defended its right to earn millions of pounds from compensation payouts.
Freed from his judicial shackles, Lord Bingham delivers his judgment on the Iraq war
Posted on November 19, 2008Never underestimate the determination of a quiet man ? or the power of a recently retired senior law lord.
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