Helen Sage reports Local authority specialist Sarah Frith has joined Hampshire firm Blake Lapthorn from the London Borough of Brent to help develop the firm’s local authority department. Frith spent three years at Brent as a procurement specialist. She helped create the largest externalised revenue and benefit contract in the UK and was legal adviser […]

While UK firms dither about whether to set up in South Africa, South African firms have been operating quietly in London for several years. The most established is Maitland & Co, which has four partners and four assistants. Partner John Herholdt says: “In Europe our activities are of necessity largely corporate and commercial and we […]

TWO US intellectual property firms are to merge in a move they claim will put them in the top 10 list of firms ranked by the number of US trade marks issued. Minneapolis-based Oppenheimer Wolf & Donnelly will join forces with niche intellectual property practice Poms, Smith, Lande & Rose, of California in January. The […]