This year the Bar Council has decided to play safe and concentrate on the Human Rights Bill, reports Shaun Pye. The Bar Council was cock-a-hoop last year when newly elected Home Secretary Jack Straw agreed to address its annual conference. The Bar Council’s enthusiasm no doubt waned as Straw methodically laid into the profession, blasting […]

Recruitment company HW Group has appointed Lisa Owens as the head of its specialist in-house legal recruitment consultancy, HW In-House Legal. Owen was formerly at ZMB and will take over the directorship from Geraldine Hetherington, who will now head HW Daniels Bates Legal.

Allen & Overy’s Moscow office has made a fifth of its 32 lawyers redundant – the first employees at UK firms to fall victim to the Russian crisis. A&O’s Moscow managing partner Chris Roberts said the six lawyers – one expat and five Russians – worked primarily in the capital markets department and had been […]

Alternative Investment Market-listed legal head-hunter Longbridge International has reported a 56 per cent increase in turnover to £2.77m and posted a 39 per cent increase in net profit before tax of £314,498 for the first half of 1998 compared with the same period in 1997.