John Heaps, head of commercial litigation in Evershed's Leeds office, was the only British lawyer invited to speak at a US conference in Washington DC last week. At the event, entitled “Civil Justice and the Litigation Process”, Heaps explained aspects of the British legal system, highlighting reforms in the wake of the Woolf Report, particularly changing rules of discovery. The conference was sponsored by the Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies, and up to 200 legal, judicial, academic and business professionals from across the US were expected to attend.
Suppliers blast Law Society IT directory
Alison Laferla reports Legal IT suppliers, angry at being excluded from the Law Society’s IT directory, have accused the society of doing its members a disservice by failing to carry out research for the directory properly. The Information Technology Directory, published in August, is sold to members for £35. It aims to “provide guidance on […]
