Eversheds has won a place on the legal panel of regeneration agency Yorkshire Forward to provide both property and corporate advice. The formal panel was set up to increase competition as the preferred adviser had always been Hammonds, which keeps a place. Head of property development Stephen Sorrell (left) and property partner Lee Ranson will head up the team. Leeds head of corporate Stephen Hopkins will lead the corporate side. Masons, Pinsent Curtis Biddle, Walker Morris and Wilbraham & Co also won places. Eversheds' property team has already been instructed on two matters for its new client. Caroline Davies
First revealed on www.thelawyer.com/lawyernews on 21 June
Bar talk
It is rare that the Bar Council makes a courageous decision, but it appears to have done so in its recent assault on the cab rank principle.Courageous because the move was part of the Bar’s ongoing campaign against the Government’s slashing of fees for publicly funded work; and also courageous in the definition of the […]
