Gazette 21 January 2013

Gambling pioneer raises ABS stakes

A team of non-solicitors with financial support from the founder of betting website Betfair has announced a legal services venture. Leeds-based Brilliant Law will be run on a corporate model. It was approved as an alternative business structure last month.

23 January 2003

Firms make plans for conflict in Middle East

Lawyers are dusting down disaster recovery plans as war looms in the Middle East – but a short decisive conflict could bring a raft of new legal opportunities, specialists told the Gazette this week.

20 January 1993

Lawyers offer £43m savings option

A costed package of five measures aimed at cutting legal aid without diminishing access to justice was presented by the Law Society this week. The package, jointly agreed with the bar, is calculated to save £43 million in 1993/94 – precisely the amount the lord chancellor hopes to save by cutting legal aid eligibility.

19 January 1983

Solicitors’ earnings

It has come to my notice that Messrs Pinsent & Co in Birmingham will, so it is alleged in the local press, from September 1984 be paying articled clerks a starting salary in the region of £6,000 per annum. The Birmingham Law Society suggested guide is £3,058 for non-law graduates and £3,300 for law graduates.

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