Two Chinese lawyers have arrived in the UK to take part in a new advanced training scheme run by the Law Society and Bar Council's working party on relations with lawyers in China. The lawyers, Hu Xiaodong, from Beijing, and Zhu Wei, from Shanghai, will each spend nine months at City firms Simmons & Simmons and Field Fisher Waterhouse.
Rakisons rings changes with special calling card
Rakisons Solicitors has launched a custom-made phonecard in what is thought to be a world first for a law firm. Senior telecommunications lawyer Danny Preiskel said around 1,000 of the cards would be given to valued IT and telecommunications clients. Each card will have around £3.50 of initial credit on it and will be useable […]