US FIRM Coudert Brothers is planning a major international expansion of English lawyers which would see its London office grow from 28 lawyers to 100 within the next five years. Administrative partner in London, Steven Beharrell, said the firm was developing the capital as its main European centre and would be recruiting reputable City lawyers. […]

TWENTY partners at the London firm Baileys Shaw & Gillett are being sued for breach of contract by a former salaried partner. In a statement of claim lodged at the Central London County Court, Pauline Walker accused the firm of breaching the employment severance arrangements that she had been agreed with the partners. She is […]

A Sussex solicitor who stole over £5 million of clients’ money had his sentence cut from 10 years to eight by the Criminal Appeal Court last week. Graham Maurice Durnford Ford, 53, from Battle in East Sussex, was sentenced to 10 years last December on 10 sample counts of theft. Hastings firm Durnford Ford collapsed […]