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.
Dibb Lupton Alsop has been chosen to advise the Latvian parliament as part of the country’s preparation to join the EU. Associate Mike Pullen, of Dibbs’ Brussels office, will offer guidance on the compatibility of the country’s public procurement law with the EU’s public procurement directives. Dibbs has also advised the Lithuanian government in the […]
Stephenson Harwood’s senior partner, David Slade, is due to step down this week to return to his Greek shipping practice and develop the client base. Slade will be based in the Piraeus office near Athens, where he will continue to expand the practice and build on work from the Croatian shipping industry. His replacement has […]
Norton Rose is eyeing Western Europe as the next target for continental expansion after signing a joint venture deal with leading Czech firm Balcar Polansky & Spol. Norton Rose’s director of marketing and strategy, Tim Pashley, says the firm’s expansion plans will focus on Western Europe after it signed the deal last week. The Czech […]
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 […]