Harbottle & Lewis’s profits might be dropping like a stone (they’re down to a Groucho membership-cancelling £228,000), but at least some of the firm’s lawyers are reaching for the sky. Well, for an hour at any rate.
Last month, two of the firm’s intellectual property bods – senior associate Kate Hazlehurst and assistant Sarah Bolton – hitched a ride in Heart FM’s chopper, the Flying Eye. The two were invited on the trip after a client meeting at Heart, which is a member of the Chrysalis Group and, as such, is among Harbottles’ primary clients.
Both lawyers denied spending the entire traffic-checking flight on the lookout for potential new clients.
Longer arm of the Law
The prospect of outsourcing standard legal work to South Africa or India is getting closer as fixed fees force law firms to cut costs. Jon Robins reports As union activists last month paraded a 10-foot pink inflatable elephant around the country – imaginatively named ‘Pinkie’ – in a colourful protest at BT setting up two […]