Roger Jones, chair of the Law Society’s training committee: I chair the Law Society’s training committee but I am writing in a personal capacity. The Law Society cannot do much more than it already has done in putting pressure on the Government to extend mandatory grants to the vocational course and persuading local education authorities […]

Congratulations! You have completed your academic training and are set to embark on professional practice. But a word of caution for the naively optimistic – success at one does not guarantee success at the other. Assuming similar backgrounds and capabilities, some candidates will shoot straight to the top, leaving colleagues far behind. This is because […]

Fidelity Brokerage, part of the Fidelity Investments group, is targeting law firm investment departments with its expanded dealing and settlement services. It has introduced commission-sharing on dealing commissions and four grades of service levels for portfolio administration, including nominee accounts, annual composite tax voucher, money market account, with half-yearly or quarterly valuation and reporting.

SIX mainly provincial firms have seen off their bigger City rivals in winning the national property work for British Gas. The work may be worth a total of £2 million or more in yearly billings, and possibly a greater sum in the first couple of years if British Gas makes disposals ahead of the more […]