News – Page 157
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NewsPrivate equity buys £15m stake in north-west ABS
NorthEdge Capital confirms its first foray into the legal services market.
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NewsPace of recovery slows in first half
M&A activity fell by five percentage points in the first half of 2014, compared with growth rate as a whole last year.
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NewsTop-50 firm warns 39 jobs at risk
Hill Dickinson responds to insurers’ requirements with reduction in counter-fraud unit.
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NewsPI firm expands into industrial disease
OH Parsons buys Neil Hudgell Solicitors’ niche industrial disease department for an undisclosed sum.
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NewsBuckland appointment ‘an insult to lawyers’
Questions have been raised over the appointment of the solicitor general.
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NewsLawyers warned following Snowden revelations
Law Society president will write to other professional bodies to discuss the impact of surveillance on members’ confidential communications.
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NewsAid agency ‘in no position’ to tender
Law Society president says prospective bidders do not have enough information to lodge ‘cogent’ bids.
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NewsHundreds of cases left without interpreter
Capita has failed to reach the 98% performance target since the start of the contract.
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PEP tops £1m again at Stewarts
Stewarts Law matched last year’s profits following stellar growth in 2012/13.
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NewsPartners approve merger of Speechly and Charles Russell
Private client firms will combine to create a 170-partner firm.
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NewsBalva policyholders given new hope of compensation
The Financial Services Compensation Scheme declared Balva to be ‘in default’ earlier this week.
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NewsCapita awarded £229m electronic tagging contract
Six-year deal comes after G4S and Serco were stripped of the work.
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NewsBaker & McKenzie steps up Australian expansion
Investment a sign of growing legal business tie-ups.
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NewsQuindell’s income doubles in first half
Trading update forecasts 193% rise in adjusted pre-tax profits.
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NewsFormer Cobbetts partner speaks out
Andrew Wright is the failed firm’s biggest individual creditor, and says he was ‘treated very poorly’.
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NewsTop-40 PEP growth into double figures
Results show firms are ‘making concerted effort to become more efficient’.
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Solicitor to lead Chancery set
Fiona Fitzgerald is the new chief executive at Radcliffe Chambers, in London’s Lincoln’s Inn.
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NewsS&G’s £500k project pledge
Money will fund projects to improve care for people diagnosed with work-related disease or who have suffered a catastrophic brain or spinal injury.
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Pre-nups on the rise
Irwin Mitchell says the rise reflects a trend for second or third marriages.