Coronavirus: Taylor Wessing closes London HQ after employee tests positive
Taylor Wessing has closed its London office until next Wednesday after one of its London employees tested positive for coronavirus.
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Taylor Wessing has closed its London office until next Wednesday after one of its London employees tested positive for coronavirus.
Hammerson has appointed Debenhams’ former general counsel as its new legal chief. Alice Darwall will join the FTSE 100 shopping centre and outlets owner this month as GC and company secretary, following the departure of Sarah Booth. Darwall moves across from Debenhams, where she had been acting as interim GC and company secretary from April […]
As 114 new silks celebrated their success in the 2020 Queen’s Counsel appointments, they were also marking the end of an arduous selection procedure – all for the honour, pride and privilege of securing those two prestigious letters that can reshape a legal career. Finally gaining the QC kitemark gives some barristers a sense of […]
The risks to legal services posed by the spread of Covid 19 were highlighted last week when international law firm Baker McKenzie closed its London office after a staff member was thought to have been at risk of contracting the new coronavirus. Many office-based lawyers have been able to work from home, but how will an impending pandemic affect the conduct of litigation?
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Taylor Wessing has closed its London office until next Wednesday after one of its London employees tested positive for coronavirus.
Hammerson has appointed Debenhams’ former general counsel as its new legal chief. Alice Darwall will join the FTSE 100 shopping centre and outlets owner this month as GC and company secretary, following the departure of Sarah Booth. Darwall moves across from Debenhams, where she had been acting as interim GC and company secretary from April […]
As 114 new silks celebrated their success in the 2020 Queen’s Counsel appointments, they were also marking the end of an arduous selection procedure – all for the honour, pride and privilege of securing those two prestigious letters that can reshape a legal career. Finally gaining the QC kitemark gives some barristers a sense of […]
The risks to legal services posed by the spread of Covid 19 were highlighted last week when international law firm Baker McKenzie closed its London office after a staff member was thought to have been at risk of contracting the new coronavirus. Many office-based lawyers have been able to work from home, but how will an impending pandemic affect the conduct of litigation?
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