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Law firms limp behind banks on pay to senior IT staff
Senior IT staff in London law firms are typically earning £68,000 a year - only 51% of the £133,000 they could earn in banks - but beating the poorer salaries of £51,000 offered in the public sector.
UK lawyers blamed for nuisance calls and text messages
Personal injury lawyers are part of the root cause of rising motor insurance premiums because their marketing techniques are helping push up the claims for whiplash injuries, according to Aviva, the UK's largest insurer.
CC embarrassed by MP comments on bank report
The value of a supposedly independent report by Clifford Chance into RBS, the leading UK bank, has been undermined by MPs who have described it as 'not independent, based on narrow terms of reference' and leaving 'a number of questions unanswered'.
London firms in 'do or die' warning over women
London law firms could struggle for their very survival and be 'overtaken' by professional competitors who have more senior females on board unless they even up their gender mix, according to a strategy report from Sharbek Associates.
London Supreme Court in landmark divorce ruling
The Supreme Court in London has ruled in favour of Kathleen Wyatt in a landmark divorce case 20 years after the divorce.
Freshfields goes radical - with plans to move 800 to Manchester hub
Employees and partners in the London HQ office of Freshfields are said to be spooked by plans to move 1,000 jobs - then scaled back to 800 - to a support service base in lower cost Manchester.
Cooley makes fast progress in UK energy market
Within two months of opening its London base, California-based Cooley has started to act for the UK's largest shale gas explorer, IGas - on a project which sees the 55-lawyer office working alongside Slaughter and May.
UK Top 100 see seven per cent growth in Q3 results
The latest survey from Deloitte has shown that the UK top 100 firms increased their revenue seven per cent faster in the quarter to 31 January than in the same quarter a year before.
Freezing injunctions impacted by Pugachev case
A Russian banker's appeal in London over an asset freezing injunction could have an impact on other freezing injunction cases, says Andrew Pena and Kerem Alev of Cubism Law.
Chrissie Lightfoot tops LinkedIn 'most connected' UK legal list
The research was carried out in advance of International Women's Day in a variety of sectors by the social media website.
Law firms bully clients over negative reviews
The firms are blocking free speech by over-reacting to the slightest criticism, according to a UK regulator.
UK law firms move to regrow private wealth practices
The first detailed survey of lateral partner moves in the UK tax and private client area shows a growth of interest in developing private wealth and tax litigation teams - partly reflecting increasing complexity of the law in this sector.
Fake law firms on the increase
The regulatory body for England and Wales has reported an increase in the number of criminals masquerading as lawyers.
Big Joe Beltrami, father of modern Scottish criminal defence, dies in Glasgow
Joe Beltrami, who acted in over 350 murder cases, appeared in every court in Scotland from the Duns to Shetland and role model for a generation of lawyers, has died, aged 82.
Bank of England internal compliance said to fail professional standards
The Bank of England, the UK's top bank regulator, has been accused of not putting its officials under scrutiny 'in the way in which professional people are normally assessed' when it investigated a Forex scandal for which £4b of fines have been paid.
DLA survey points to positive view on UK manufacturing in Q1
Research sponsored by DLA Piper in collaboration with a manufacturing organisation, EEF, points to a 'relatively strong start' to 2015 for British manufacturers.
Shakespeares discusses Top 50 UK merger with SGH Martineau
The two Midlands-based UK law firms have confirmed that they are in merger discussions which would make them one of the largest in the region with joint revenue of £75m and a staff of 900.
Introducing a victims law
The government has announced plans to strengthen the law around the rights on offer to the victims of crime, in an effort to make the 'daunting' task of going to court more easily approachable, says Amjid Jabbar.
Michael Mansfield QC lambasts UK Gov's glorification of the Magna Carta
The UK Government is glorifying in the legacy of Magna Carta - signed 800 years ago. But its cutbacks in legal aid are leading to 'a decimation of access to justice', claims 'radical lawyer' Michael Mansfield QC.
UK law firms reach six-year records on growth
UK law firms are having a good year, according to research from TheCityUK.