News – Page 160
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NewsLawyers on Demand poised for Manchester expansion
Business targets companies looking for ways to improve in-house teams.
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NewsMoJ figures paint stark picture of aid decline
Official statistics show the volume and cost of cases was falling before the LASPO cuts came in.
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Bristol firms Barcan Woodward and Kirby Sheppard to merge
The merger of the Bristol LLPs is expected to be confirmed in September
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NewsWonga threatened customers with fake law firms
The UK’s biggest payday lender has entered an agreement with the Financial Conduct Authority to compensate around 45,000 customers.
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NewsPEP up 19% at Stephenson Harwood
International firm reports steady growth for 2013/14 in a ’very competive market’.
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NewsAA expands legal services with conveyancing panel
AA Home Conveyancing has been formed in the wake of the creation last December of AA Law.
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NewsSRA urged not to dispense with accounts requirement
The SRA has proposed to abolish the requirement for firms to have and submit an accountant’s report every year.
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NewsDoughty Street International to open in The Hague
The set will open a permanent office five minutes away from the International Court of Justice in September.
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NewsDate set for halted fraud trial
First Operation Cotton trial date scheduled as bar indicates a deal is close on fee cuts.
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NewsMishcon recruits former DPP
Sir Keir Starmer has joined Mishcon de Reya as a part-time consultant in its business crime group.
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NewsSolicitors enjoy above-average health, finds survey
Annual well-being survey shows solicitors are in good health - but over stressed.
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NewsTroubled CLS merged with funeral and insurance
Co-operative Legal Services (CLS) will join the group’s funeral and insurance businesses in a new ‘consumer services division’ following a major shakeup of the loss-making alternative business structure.
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NewsFirms underestimate real risks to business
Law firms tend to overestimate the risks that ‘loom largest’ and underestimate those that pose the real threat, a Law Society conference heard last week.
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NewsCases on hold pending post-Mitchell guidance
The Master of the Rolls is expected to issue fresh guidance on relief from sanctions after hearing three post-Mitchell cases in the Court of Appeal.
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BME ‘danger’
Four consultations proposing regulatory reforms represent a threat to the viability of ethnic minority firms, a lawyers’ group has claimed.
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News‘Rude’ challenge
A criminal barrister fined £500 for contempt has challenged the decision – claiming the judge was rude to him.
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NewsShiner accuses Grayling of ‘personal vendetta’
Legal Aid Agency inquiry into Phil Shiner and his firm Public Interest Lawyers is a ‘distraction’.
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NewsPractising certificate fee set to fall by 17%
Proposed levy of £320 is subject to Law Society Council approval and member consultation.
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NewsQuindell tells investors: we’re making £500k a day
Listed legal services provider Quindell today sought to calm investors’ concerns with a promise of £250m-worth of new contracts.