The purpose of this column is to take a serious look at what happened in the business of law within UK as reported by online legal publications throughout last week.
The most interesting articles on developments, compliance, business of law within UK or as well as international developments of interest to UK law firms and legal practioners:
- GCs disappointed by law firm service | The Global Legal Post: http://t.co/x5wYgvTAAi
- Half of UK law firms win work by social media | The Global Legal Post: http://t.co/FE61igtKvx
- Small and mid-sized firms eye external investment in bid to take on ABS competition | Legal Futures http://t.co/e1lTeTn5BD
- SRA tells LSB: no need for lay chair requirement | Legal Futures http://t.co/2WSO5EA9cu
- Law Society charm offensive fails to stall no confidence vote | The Lawyer http://t.co/kPNNnbFdSn
- Guideline hourly rates survey ‘important for all firms’ | Law Society Gazette http://t.co/FUZoFMaKLH
- SRA warns over rise in dishonest misuse of client assets | Solicitors Journal http://t.co/TVYaDbYsVG
- What’s new at the European courts? | Law Gazette http://t.co/wIeK0A3sIC
- SRA warns uninsured firms | New Law Journal: http://t.co/jeaTMyW73E
- Resolution: expert witness standards must not rule out "new" experts | New Law Journal: http://t.co/0FqR976bvC
- Paralegal high: Newcastle College launches new paralegal qualification | New Law Journal: http://t.co/EWkBpHb1W9
- Supreme Court asks pupils to debate Magna Carta | New Law Journal: http://t.co/pnensi4rC1
- New Bill targets cold callers & rogue management companies | New Law Journal: http://t.co/lu6PH5mior
- UK Diversity Legal Awards | New Law Journal: http://t.co/Dui1uqE5jm
- "Uneasy relationship" between pro bono activities & access to justice | New Law Journal: http://t.co/E3Yl6oLXnI
- Niqab, technology & courts: Lord Chief Justice provides news of change for the judiciary | New Law Journal: http://t.co/PJrNN0Kqxi
- Figures show many in-house lawyers suffered pay freezes | New Law Journal: http://t.co/F1n8BZCv1D
- BSB introduce new supervisory scheme for barristers | New Law Journal: http://t.co/xS7F3H8ydv
- How to make employers pay up? | New Law Journal: http://t.co/0YY8TG2qWg
- Law students and lawyers hoping to switch jobs should ensure their Facebook past doesn’t catch up | New Law Journal: http://t.co/10PbOrhVqw
- Racing pundit McCririck was "unpalatable" | New Law Journal: http://t.co/ayTzqq98qx
- Request for opinions on guideline hourly rates | New Law Journal: http://t.co/gdFYAXfeSO
- Expert witnesses uncertain about Jackson | New Law Journal: http://t.co/HBgHkNkGp6
- Small to medium-sized enterprise (SME) legal firms are recovering well from the effects of recession http://t.co/ZpPVkrL3tU
- It's wrong to want QualitySolicitors to fail | Law Gazette http://t.co/HatnZuM7Ga
- Reprieve for ‘largest town without a criminal court’ | Law Gazette http://t.co/BFJQq7H4Qs
- £4.5m fraud trial threatened by legal aid cuts | Law Gazette http://t.co/bNdC1ejoqU
- Government surveillance threatens law firms' cloud data security, regulator warns | Legal Futures http://t.co/DRMEifp3iQ
- Legal costs top list of complaints | The Global Legal Post: http://t.co/p5k4vSGq6f
- Flexible working: not just ‘a woman thing’ | Law Gazette http://t.co/AS5RBvCKqm
- One-third of small firms expect to merge | Law Gazette http://t.co/pjRFjJVVhH
- Demand for in-house posts creates pay freeze | Law Gazette http://t.co/Cj6biyPszJ
- Dembovsky to move on from HowardKennedyFsi | Law Gazette http://t.co/o39WdCIjE7
- Irwin Mitchell snaps up PI specialist MPH Solicitors | Law Gazette http://t.co/b3zBYU7fha
- Solicitor population rises to all-time high | Law Gazette http://t.co/VCneDwsC1g
- Arbitration costs ‘much more’ than litigation | Solicitors Journal http://t.co/070oqIaMwh
- LeO calls for overhaul of complaints system | Solicitors Journal http://t.co/NQ8U8EzR3K
- Munby: media access to court documents is essential | Solicitors Journal http://t.co/rAwgiwbNDJ
- Diversity League Table: minorities still under-represented at the top of the profession | The Lawyer http://t.co/gdMYchmxof
- Law Firms make a third of emissions on air flights | The Global Legal Post: http://t.co/EWY9jeRlCs
- Joining the 'Great Club' | The Global Legal Post: http://t.co/lv9oX8LC3j
- Efficiency beats cost benefits for GCs | The Global Legal Post: http://t.co/2U3JWOcvOO
- Pro bono work spreads to one in three law firms | The Global Legal Post: http://t.co/YOu03ieadx
- London leads world on 'highly skilled professionals' | The Global Legal Post: http://t.co/ATeIDsLijm
- Family transparency guidelines this year: Munby | Law Gazette http://t.co/7wY0CDqnLW
- Legal job numbers in London continue to fall | Law Gazette http://t.co/6aUiFvFf43
- Ministry of Justice relationship with outsourcers under scrutiny | Law Gazette http://t.co/jMHVe2nSGO
- Government to give claims regulator power to fine firms | Legal Futures http://t.co/bAqzyAMwPz
- SRA eyes financial stability test for thousands of firms | Legal Futures http://t.co/mgw7D8icgE
- The great judicial review challenge | The Lawyer http://t.co/qPR97Tncmv
- New-look patents court gets a chief judge | Law Gazette http://t.co/5UVTFe2tcw
- Solicitors move firms as family practice goes under | Law Gazette http://t.co/n3YZ3wALIg
- The chief executive of Hardwicke Chambers shares her experience of going open plan | Law Society Gazette http://t.co/PDzOD8o3cT
- SRA warns of ‘group contagion’ threat to complex structures | Law Society Gazette http://t.co/fMFuVz12nM
- Essex firm Fisher Jones Greenwood quits QualitySolicitors network | Law Society Gazette http://t.co/U8fbYwEG2J
- Trainee retention rates at UK top 10's HK bases remain high as firms continue to invest in Asia | Legalweek http://t.co/r1zx8dM73F
- Legal aid cuts will not affect quality, Vara insists | Law Gazette http://t.co/70hArb0O4G
- Balva clients offered hope as SRA targets uninsured | Law Gazette http://t.co/eugymPr0wv
- Criminal legal aid specialists meet Grayling for ‘polite’ talks | Law Gazette http://t.co/z28kA49Jcf
- Society aligns with CBI to promote UK legal services abroad | Law Gazette http://t.co/lh2KQbgxv4
- Government unveils new quality assurance standards for family experts | Solicitors Journal http://t.co/2Q4EvWxc3X
- Supreme Court to slash IT costs by leaving MoJ contract | Law Gazette http://t.co/b48hMen2z7
- Government not doing enough to support family mediation | Solicitors Journal http://t.co/c5rQvEOKQi
- Legal fees cut by better law dept management | The Global Legal Post: http://t.co/nahoJaoqRa
- Competition in focus | The Global Legal Post: http://t.co/3vvp18l0vO
- Profiles in Justice: A 'one of a kind' trial lawyer | The Global Legal Post: http://t.co/eXqr25wRvD
- Top judge pledges to end culture of secrety at family courts http://t.co/lr7fStelDj
- 'Knife in back' claim over RTA data sharing | Law Gazette http://t.co/HM0MrjqVrH
- Diversity League Table shows promotion gap | Law Gazette http://t.co/cPbzh9zGdz
- SRA bids to get grip on exactly how many firms have yet to secure insurance | Legal Futures http://t.co/HfHn7dTkUg
- ABSs frustrated by acquisition targets that are either not ready or "financial basket cases" | Legal Futures http://t.co/2si3DLjo2w
- Children need contact centres | Law Gazette http://t.co/PelocJGnyB
- Holding the forces to account | Law Gazette http://t.co/csLwtZVKoe
- How Jackson is affecting litigation so far: What trends have begun to emerge | Law Gazette http://t.co/nf0pJO4Lh0
- Partners believe that legal merger at regional practice Attwaters Jameson Hill brought strength in depth http://t.co/92aas8XfwP
- Bar Conference 2013: LCJ warns of legal competition to London | Law Gazette http://t.co/jNyT9tq1br
- Bar Conference 2013: LCJ warns of legal competition to London | Law Gazette http://t.co/jNyT9tq1br
- Bar Conference 2013: Barristers urged not to return instructions | Law Gazette http://t.co/xcWv2eYhPV
- Bar Conference 2013: McGowan slams ‘cumbersome and expensive’ legal regulation | Law Gazette http://t.co/ywBfvbJ39y
- Pro bono pleas soar | Law Gazette http://t.co/tO1gErcQbL
- Bar Conference 2013: Government 'does not understand' advocacy | Law Gazette http://t.co/Az0klU5kNf
- Bar Conference 2013: Barristers in favour of diversity quotas | Law Gazette http://t.co/EeJ4x08jXQ
- Social Mobility Tsar Milburn urges law firms to scale up use of apprenticeships | Law Gazette http://t.co/FHHDFlftmG
- TCC litigators ordered to adopt common eDisclosure protocol | Law Gazette http://t.co/epa5u5QEct
- Extend protection for whistleblowers, says Law Society | Law Gazette http://t.co/jY2qxDhMGM
- 'Let ex-offenders sit as magistrates' | Law Gazette http://t.co/C0x7hxawIp
- Wiggin eyes transformation into media business after ABS licence award | Legal Futures http://t.co/LSOSdjlIxQ
- It's the right time to remember what solicitors did in the Great War | Law Gazette http://t.co/IRQ0exyf32
- MPs recommend tough penalties for corporate fraudsters | Law Gazette http://t.co/dpWo44v4eu
- Let data protection law evolve | The Lawyer http://t.co/ePmAVsMw59
- No progress on freeing up the Scottish legal market means no chance for Scottish firms to innovate | The Lawyer http://t.co/tl3rdSmoLe
- Mergers: the ultimate test of loyalty | The Lawyer http://t.co/Z1IS2C4mgX
- Mergers on the brink of viability | The Lawyer http://t.co/sve6wmM5dQ
- Tottering Law Society sends tremors industry-wide | The Lawyer http://t.co/yZLEZeBS4b
- E-disclosure: confidence is growing in e-disclosure | The Lawyer http://t.co/mtatzfXBhO
- Manches: Life after debt | The Lawyer http://t.co/cDpdAMBM4g
- In-house: Interview with Nick Economakis, GC at G4S Risk Management | The Lawyer http://t.co/44iKjqnB5H
- Clive Stafford Smith, human rights lawyer and director of the legal charity Reprieve: My family values http://t.co/zSGTRjXk2k
Interesting articles on the study of law, legal training, pupillage, associates, legal academia & law students:
- Law lecturer Eric Baskind from Liverpool John Moores University appointed as national adjudicator to national moot http://t.co/sYpb2fubEo
- Skegness Grammar School students shadow barristers at London law firm http://t.co/emmagV1cB5
- US: Cutting Law Schools - Enrollment is down. The drop has no end in sight http://t.co/tONtKBAiUO
- Former Law Society President Fiona Woolf is University of Law's first chancellor | Law Gazette http://t.co/FSUXHPQYeX
- US: Study finds that law schools perpetuate elite legal education values in faculty hiring http://t.co/raJOLxmBev
Articles of the week:
The UK and international articles of the week are pieces selected by @TheLawMap tweeting team based on recommendations from friends and followers of LawNewsIndex.com daily law news blog.
- My Typical Day Shows Why Lawyers Are Miserable And Lonely http://t.co/kUYD3TfOV1
- Barclays compliance chief quits following period out due to exhaustion | The Lawyer http://t.co/5hCn2MNFXf
- Scotland has a phenomenal legal history and track record in law http://t.co/dM1IFumOF6
- Postcards from Lawyers: Volume 1 | Bitter Lawyer http://t.co/QTidlxG08E
- Legal Harmony launches choir competition for lawyers | The Lawyer http://t.co/e6QNXT9Ywb
- Justice isn't supposed to make a victim 'feel better', Damian Green http://t.co/GSsDqjbI5N
- Complex fraud trial threatened as barristers decline work at reduced rate http://t.co/LK65aXuzKu
- Why Chris Grayling should bury his appeal against Richard III ruling | Joshua Rozenberg http://t.co/xkaTwBRsuf
- Ralph Miliband’s diary could have been kept secret if Ed had used new Guernsey rights legislation - Mark Engelman, barrister, Hardwicke Chambers | The Lawyer http://t.co/adc2BIrRyR
Lawyers, Law Firms, Chambers & ABS in the news this week:
Friday 15th November
- Pepper Hamilton opens in Silicon Valley http://t.co/0em4vYxuv8
- Irwin Mitchell makes personal injury move with MPH acquisition http://t.co/x3wYBEVDVr
- LAW FIRM NEWS: Morgan Cole offloads claims group to DAC Beachcroft and BLM http://t.co/DyJAO7hGD9
- Clifford Chance steps in to fund free legal advice http://t.co/cnb3oq3wBy
- New Chambers UK guide showcases Exeter's legal talent http://t.co/0y4MC55OVo
- Dentons merger decision due by year end http://t.co/6powzKlV84
- Accolade for law firm Thrings from Chambers UK http://t.co/2EKHThEJGF
- A&O, Osborne Clarke and Proskauer Rose advise on $1.7bn Novartis deal http://t.co/cyaMXcNHTT
- Singapore CoA slashes $250m award to $700,000 after Essex Court challenge http://t.co/CmpjhJXxqd
- 'Beer and song' raises £215,000 at Law Rocks' Six of the Best http://t.co/eQ70kCN54z
- US firm Sullivan & Worcester dual partner hire builds London team http://t.co/C1bzd3XZiD
- Patton Boggs in talks with Locke Lord http://t.co/LaXXEBXU1k
- Bird & Bird opens second office in UAE with Dubai launch http://t.co/M5O1xu8B8r
- CBS names new general counsel http://t.co/z4XcgaT31G
- KWM SJB and Wragges advise on Singaporean developer Oxley’s first City acquisition http://t.co/k5lptbRf8F
- JMW Solicitors half-year revenue up 26 per cent http://t.co/hSluEQONx6
- Latham global chair retires from two-decade stint in top role http://t.co/CLy0A9rfik
- Norton Rose Fulbright competition partner Grenfell resigns for CMA http://t.co/AXvxmFGyg7
- Davis Polk joins NQ £100k club with London trainee programme http://t.co/6eZ7C18lXL
- Irwin Mitchell acquires PI specialists MPH Solicitors http://t.co/Scz2vA3h4O
- HowardKennedyFSI in management limbo as CEO Dembovsky quits http://t.co/lVKdukLlMW
- Weightmans, Freeth Cartwright among 17 to win Lambeth BC panel slots http://t.co/NjPWDoRz3D
- BLP adds DLA partner to real estate team http://t.co/YNgCBp6c9y
- FFW reports half-year revenue uptick of 7 per cent http://t.co/xf2DXLFVKK
- Davenport Lyons draws curtain on film & TV group http://t.co/EkGVDjfwyw
- HMRC appoints new general counsel | The Lawyer http://t.co/GrIq9b3ugB
- Slaughters slammed for 'club mentality' fee approach in Hellas administration http://t.co/EGxzeSZsk7
- Slater & Gordon expects deal with Pannone in weeks http://t.co/PWRMkQqQbe
- Davis Polk joins NQ £100k club with London trainee programme http://t.co/6eZ7C18lXL
- Travers Smith client hit with £50m indemnity costs for Deutsche Bank http://t.co/r6N9ky8iij
- A&O and HSF lose out as BG Group picks CC for new panel http://t.co/98CGdYgSoJ
- Singapore’s Wong Partnership forms alliance in Malaysia http://t.co/Z1oayC3Dkb
- Barratts administrators find Shoosmiths the right fit http://t.co/whmczDv4ZI
- Olswang revenue up 15% at half-year stage to £57.6m http://t.co/O6nFmmirCk
- Clifford Chance elects new global head of tax, pensions and employment http://t.co/XyL3AmOEfU
- Baker Botts and Maclay Murray & Spens drilled for GDF Suez fracking deal http://t.co/Jnv2zTpsOq
- Locke Lord takes top billing as Blockbuster files for administration http://t.co/NDfE0yPp8p
- Ashurst sees second high-profile corporate exit in days http://t.co/zvsFotKnhB
- Clifford Chance elects new London head of capital markets http://t.co/0laxSXe7b8
- Slater & Gordon breaks silence over Pannone takeover http://t.co/XmWlauyR1P
- Nottingham law firm Browne Jacobson goes up rankings http://t.co/AnCnc98uzf
- Cambridge law firm Taylor Vinters expands Singapore operation http://t.co/atPd7e8Kad
- Irwin Mitchell targets private client growth with experienced wills disputes partner http://t.co/qPDZuZqvDK
- Ashurst finance partner quits for Davis Polk http://t.co/i8Sewleh2P
- Deutsche Bank wins $8bn court battle against Sebastian Holdings http://t.co/vt5UBLyWJL
- Chinese companies put in-house lawyers at arm's length http://t.co/c3oyiC1Snr
- Virgin Group launches panel audit http://t.co/w6HH6lTWPI
- Gilbert + Tobin departures prompt new DLA appointments http://t.co/ZmUnSC6cPL
- Slater & Gordon targets Pannone http://t.co/4MFIrfwJwk
- Ilkley Law firm Last Cawthra Feather starts claims service for cyclists http://t.co/IrGHXp39Ro
- Law firm BPE Solicitors in Cheltenham's chief leads trade delegation to Estonia http://t.co/QyfHPr9L5g
- Sheffield barristers’ chambers has been recognised in two prestigious legal guides http://t.co/XC66Lpj0RM
- London's legal eagles (Ashurst) have landed in Glasgow http://t.co/Fx66K5DWvk
- Edinburgh University to appoint first head of legal services http://t.co/PdKZNCnrBX
- Pinsents pick up cross-jurisdictional position on KCA Deutag panel http://t.co/DkD4Mz0WOY
- Pannone vote on Slater & Gordon takeover delayed again http://t.co/VqWATuEtjZ
- Revealed: Lloyds puts litigation unit out to tender as in-house teams merge http://t.co/K9jEeIQCz3
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