Jonathan Scott is charged with boosting with the firm’s non contentious financial services work. His appointment comes at a time of intense M&A activity in the financial services sector and as the scope of regulated activity in the City is set to broaden with the introduction of the Financial Services and Markets bill. Scott acts […]
Andrew Roberts, a Linklaters partner with years of experience working in Asia, will oversee the management of Linklaters’ five offices in the area – Bangkok, Hong Kong, Shangai, Singapore and Tokyo. Roberts, who will be based in Singapore, will co-ordinate regional marketing and resourcing initiatives to promote Linklaters’ corporate and finance practices in the region. […]
An employment tribunal said the CPS’s conduct towards Maria Bamieh fell below the standard “we would have expected of a corner shop”. The service, said the tribunal, had wanted to “rub her face in the dirt” and its conduct amounted to “a most serious form of aggravation”. Bamieh’s award included an unusually high level of […]
Lord Irvine says the reforms will ensure that legal costs will not eat into compensation pay outs and it would be easier to bring a case which did not involve a money claim. Under current arrangements, litigants are deterred from using the ‘no win, no fee’ process because the uplifted legal fees demanded by lawyers […]
Holland & Knight’s marriage to the 40-lawyer practice which specialises in litigation, real estate, land use and employment law creates a law firm with more than 950 lawyers. Holland & Knight’s managing partner, Bill McBride, says the merger will solidify the firm’s presence in Chicago – which he describes as one of the top business […]
The London firm says it is in “advanced discussions” with Koo & Partners which specialises mainly in banking and corporate finance. Michael Regan, Rowe & Maw’s head of construction and engineering says: “We have been looking further to internationalise our construction and projects work for some time and this represents a wonderful opportunity to establish […]
Michael Bronstein joins the employment department of the international firm’s London office. Bronstein will work with Salan’s head of employment, Barry Mordsley who ironically taught Bronstein employment law when he took his solicitors’ finals exams in 1981. Bronstein says: “Salans is ideally positioned to benefit from the accelerating trend towards commercial and economic globalisation and […]
Neil Maybury, Dibbs’ IP chief in Birmingham for the past five years, joins Putsmans as a senior consultant. His task at his new firm will be to develop the IP section and work with senior management on strategic development issues. Putsmans’ head of business law development, Terry Lipscombe says: “Neil Maybury is one of the […]
Catrin Griffiths, director of New City Media and former editor of Legal Business magazine, is to become the new editor of The Lawyer. She will take over from Sean Brierley who steps up to the new role of editor-in-chief. “Many magazines take years to achieve what we have done in the past 12 months,” says […]
“People may think that because it’s a little country, Estonia is of no significance, but it’s going to turn into the Switzerland of the Baltics.” – Malcom Price of Bretherton Price Elgoods.
Baroness James of Holland Park – novelist PD James – is taking the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea to the High Court with a £77,000 damages claim over tree root damage to her home in Holland Park Avenue, London. She is suing the council for alleged negligence, nuisance and breach of statutory duty after […]
London Electricity is suing BG, trading as Transco of Reading, for damages of more than £84,000 after a London Electricity cable in Old Ford Road, London E3, was struck by a digger used by BG on 9 December 1997. London Electricity claims BG was negligent. Claim issued by Greenwoods (London WC1) Eurostar, has launched a […]