Linklaters & Paines head of marketing Conor Boden is quitting to join management consultancy Mercer Management Consultancy, part of US insurance giant Marsh & McLennan. Boden, 34, joined Linklaters in October 1992 as the firm's marketing number two, and became head of the department in May 1994. He was previously with accountants Arthur Andersen.
Eleni Pavlopoulos salutes the use of pre-trial reviews. Eleni Pavlopoulos is a solicitor at Linklaters & Paines.
Lord Woolf’s report Access to Justice envisages the pre-trial review (PTR) as an integral part of case management: it provides “an opportunity to set a programme, timetable and budget for the trial”. Currently, the Lord Chief Justice’s practice direction (Civil Litigation: Case Management) of 24 January 1995 says a PTR should be applied for in […]
