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Vampire Defence Wards off Lawyers

Posted on April 27, 2009
Contempt of court doen’t really do this justice. Criminal cases being tried in Bristol Crown Court had to be temporarily abandoned recently when people were overcome with nausea from intense infusion of garlic into the building. The smell seeped through all parts of the ten-courtroom facility...

Lawyers? Favorites - Firmwide Meetings

Posted on April 27, 2009
These might not be so common at the moment given the need to cut costs that has swept across the profession. Though, in most cases the numbers travelling to these events have probably shrunk somewhat. From Litination, the firmwide meeting: Every once in a while, the chairman of a law firm likes to come up with another [...

The Week: Rubbish

Posted on April 24, 2009
In the world of law it’s not been too bad. Less redundancies than we are used to and a fair few promotions for those associates that still have jobs. But lets be honest here, it’s been a shocker really. For all the had working folk out there, life is just going to get tougher...

Police Assist Mobility Scooter Man Off Motorway

Posted on April 24, 2009
  After all the flack our law enforcers have been getting recently in the light of the G20 summit etc, here’s something for them to be proud of. The boys in riot gear, stab-proof vests and armoured cars blue had to rescue an 89 year old pensioner after he took a wrong turn and ended up travelling [...

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Taxi Please - ?DLA Piper shares blood money with Ethiopian dictators? Says Advert

Posted on April 24, 2009
On occasions client relationships can have unforseen consequences. Taxis have been spotted throughout Washington DC featuring adverts bad-mouthing the firm with the above slogan. It seems DLA Piper partners lobbied on behalf of the Ethiopian Prime Minister who’s alleged brutal behaviour during the 2005 elections upset human rights activists...

Top Tax To Hit Top Lawyers

Posted on April 23, 2009
After yesterday’s announcement, one imagines lawyers working on tax avoidance schemes will be busy over the coming months. Anyone earning more than £150,000 a year is to face a triple wammy of charges. Their top rate of tax will rise from 40 per cent to 50 per cent next April; their personal allowances on [...

Classifieds - Lawyer Needs Companionship

Posted on April 23, 2009
Some of you may have seen last week’s rather forthright Craigslist advert posted by a lawyer seeking a particular vein of companionship, "Hot rich lawyer looking for gold digging femal - 28 (NYC)." If you thought that one was a little uncompromising in its demands, cast your eye over this: Lawyer seeks Hot Tub Companion [...

Battle of the Law Schools - Kaplan Gets LPC Exclusive with Trowers & Hamlins

Posted on April 23, 2009
Kaplan has sealed an exclusive deal with Trowers to be its sole provider of the LPC and GDL. Kaplan, which is based in Borough Market, London teaches the Nottingham Law School LPC and has Bird & Bird, Bates Wells & Braithwaite, Mayer Brown and Nabarro signed up on exclusive deals.

KPMG Accountant Beats Up Freshfields Lawyer

Posted on April 23, 2009
A KPMG accountant has pleaded guilty to brawling with a Freshfields lawyer in the Punch Tavern pub for talking too loudly. Graham Carr, 39, who had just been made redundant by KPMG, admitted causing actual bodily harm to Freshfields lawyer Simon McPhee...

Promotions Round-up

Posted on April 22, 2009
With a lot of associates just pleased to be hanging onto their jobs at the moment, here are some of the luckier ones… Addleshaw Goddard has promoted four lawyers to the post of legal director: Simon Courie, finance & projects, London; Susan Maxey and Andrew Williamson were promoted in real estate, Leeds and Graeme Warburton, [...

Lawyer Needs Way Out

Posted on April 22, 2009
Lots of us think about it, most of us keep the genie in the bottle but some of us go right ahead and take the entrepreneurial plunge. For the majority of lawyers the risks of losing salary, benefits and stability outweigh the potential rewards of unlimited wealth, financial freedom and becoming master of your [...

Linklaters Defeats ?55m Claim but Pays £5 for Negligence

Posted on April 22, 2009
Linklaters has avoided a ?55m (£44m) pay out following a negligence claim brought by telecoms company Levicom, one of its former clients. It is one of the largest claims made against a UK law firm recently. The firm did not get away scott free though - it had to pay out £5 in nominal [...

Road Safety Law Reforms - Where?s the Limit?

Posted on April 22, 2009
So the rules of the road may become more draconian under new laws proposed by the Government yesterday. The default speed limit on rural single carriageway roads is likely to be reduced from 60mph to 50mph, with councils obliged to give good reasons for retaining the higher limit speed limit...

Redundancy Watch: Taylor Wessing

Posted on April 21, 2009
Taylor Wessing has begun a redundancy consultation with ten associates and ten support and secretarial staff. Associate pay bands have been frozen for 2009 and trainees for the firm?s 2009 and 2010 intake have been asked to defer training contract start dates on a voluntary basis...

Legal Laughs

Posted on April 21, 2009
Could think of one or two officials here that might take a leaf out of this chaps book. A Michigan mayor says a warning wasn’t enough after he was stopped for speeding. So he asked for a ticket instead — and got it. Warren Mayor Jim Fouts was pulled over Monday on the way [...

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