AN August calm has descended on the legal aid debate, putting on hold what promises to become the burning issue of the autumn months. However, behind the scenes, a nationwide campaign to defeat the Lord Chancellor’s plan for wholesale reform of legal aid is taking shape. Organisations concerned about the White Paper on legal aid […]

John Malpas reports A drive to hammer home to American lawyers the difference between barristers and solicitors formed the centrepiece of the Bar Council’s mission to the premier legal conference in the US. Bar Council chair David Penry-Davey QC led the Bar’s delegation to last week’s American Bar Association conference in Orlando. He was joined […]

US law firm Squire Sanders & Dempsey has appointed finance and securities specialist Vladimira Papirnik to replace Richard Sterling Surrey as the managing partner of the firm’s Prague office. Sterling Surrey is moving to the London office. Since joining Squires’ international corporate practice in Prague, Papirnik has specialised in bank regulation and restructuring. She was […]

That certain barristers’ chambers are facing a crisis over attracting clients has been an open secret for some time. Any solicitor who has regular dealings with the Bar will have been the target of various attempts by chambers to market themselves more effectively and to raise the profile of their members. The chambers most affected […]