Dibb Lupton Alsop has lost four corporate recovery and insolvency specialists to Linklaters & Paines, including the well regarded former head of the practice at Dibb Lupton Broomhead, Anthony Bugg, and litigation partner Susan Kelly. None of the four will be partners at Linklaters, and they will be joining former Dibb Lupton Alsop insolvency partner Richard Wright, who joined the firm in October and holds the title 'of counsel', which denotes seniority but not partnership. Terence Kyle, managing partner at Linklaters, said the firm “had been looking to strengthen the insolvency team for a while and the opportunity arose to do so”. However, he refused to speculate about the background to the move. The four lawyers will not join Linklaters until March. They were unavailable for comment at Dibb Lupton Alsop and a spokeswoman for the firm also refused to disclose any details about the move.
OSS promises investigation
The director of the Office for the Supervision of Solicitors, Peter Ross, has promised that the OSS will give full consideration to the British Legal Association’s complaint about the perceived mishandling of the Regis computer project. The complaint refers to solicitor members of the Law Society’s management board from January 1995 onwards. Ross said: “The […]