Virginia Glastonbury is a firm woman. As Chris Fogarty finds, Denton Hall is less of a job and more of a working love affair for one of the City’s handful of female managing partners. But can she turn her passion into profit? It is a telling moment when Virginia Glastonbury, Denton Hall’s newly elected London […]
Tea drinkers will be pleased to know consumer giant Unilever has their interests at heart. Not only is tea a drinks category of “key importance” to the company in its drive for product “excellence”, but it is also the subject of considerable research using “computational fluid dynamics” to “investigate the tea infusion process”. Perfecting the […]
One of the gurus of employment law in the City, Fraser Younson is setting up his own department at McDermotts. Sean Farrell examines the details.
Terry Lee of Evill & Coleman represented Smoldon. Rugby accident victim Ben Smoldon’s £2m settlement breaks new ground as the first case to be brought against a rugby referee. It appears to extend the circumstances when a court will be prepared to find a match official liable of having breached his duty of care to […]
Wilde Sapte acted for property investor City & West End in its £20m acquisition of Film House in London’s Soho. The Wilde Sapte team was led by partner Stan Gniadkowski (pictured right). Partner Allan Hudson of Devonshires acted for the vendor, Langborn.
Denton Hall’s newly elected UK managing partner is making her mark by introducing sweeping ref-orms to the firm’s support services. Virginia Glastonbury, deputy managing partner to managing partner Jon-athan Tatten, who decided not to stand for re-election, says: “There will be a total review across the board.” Those support services likely to come under the […]
Boodle Hatfield has elected Richard Moyse as its new senior partner, replacing Peter Scoble. The 29-partner firm has offices in Oxford and London and has a specialism in tax and financial planning. Moyse, a partner for 25 years at the firm, is head of the tax department.
A SENIOR member of the Scottish Legal Aid Board (SLAB) has been suspended. The person, who has not been identified, was suspended on full pay pending the outcome of an investigation into the SLAB’s accounts assessment procedures. SLAB chairman Jean Couper says: “This issue is of utmost concern to the board and we have immediately […]
MOTORING insurance company Summit at Lloyd’s has integrated its in-house and claims-handling teams. The merged team – called Just Law – is to be launched on 26 April in response to the Woolf Reforms. Hazel Hammonds, principal solicitor at Summit, says that by merging the teams the firm will be able to respond more quickly […]
Ince & Co has taken on a Titmuss Sainer Dechert partner to boost its Corporate Business group. Corporate and regulatory insurance specialist Reg Morton will be working with David Coup and Nick Gould in the group which also handles financial services work. The firm says it has seen considerable growth in the demand for non-contentious […]
Freshfields has dropped the number of annual partner promotions by a third and has continued to shun London lawyers in favour of its overseas offices. Last year the firm made up 17 of its lawyers to partner level, while this year the number is down to 11. Only four in the London office have joined […]
UK FIRM Masons has poa-ched two IT lawyers from Bird Semple. John Salmon is to become a partner at Masons. Salmon is regarded as the architect of the TechMedia group set up less than a year ago to focus on the technology, media and new media sectors. John Mackenzie will remain an associate. A source […]