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:
- In-house lawyers predicted to set up law firms | The Global Legal Post http://t.co/Jkld3TSvvy
- Lack of diversity should raise flag about firms, LSB tells regulators | Legal Futures http://t.co/BjbmMUmAoj
- Barrister-led firm becomes first dedicated tax ABS | Legal Futures http://t.co/S4gBomWNvA
- Eight in 10 executives doubt their company's ability to handle legal risk | Legalweek http://t.co/en8cgourHY
- BofA legal costs rise to one billion dollars | The Global Legal Post http://t.co/0hvwzfxzEn
- GCHQ 'probably' intercepting lawyers emails | The Global Legal Post http://t.co/98uLXYt4jK
- Balva policyholders left to call Riga number | Solicitors Journal http://t.co/KTZEBBwIYy
- Lawyers are invited to engage with the European Commission’s justice priority plans | Law Gazette http://t.co/SR7nxMC3X2
- Firm rewards staff with shorter working week | Law Gazette http://t.co/ZKnzs2VQwY
- Bar disciplinary rules ‘opaque’ says High Court | Law Gazette http://t.co/BrgHJPbOVT
- Anti-corruption warning to in-house | Law Gazette http://t.co/URs2QK0yAO
- CoA upholds ‘commonsense’ appeal over school PI claim | Law Gazette http://t.co/sebrihXxsV
- PI firms ignoring rules to comply with referral fee ban, says SRA | Law Gazette http://t.co/Ga5isI2P1o
- Legal profession praised over social mobility | Law Gazette http://t.co/rilbHfQb0K
- New competence framework essential to avoid a legal Mid-Staffs scandal, says SRA | Solicitors Journal http://t.co/yCmBKTHnMB
- Government reforms ‘a blot on the rule of law’, Lord Neuberger warns of inefficiencies | Solicitors Journal http://t.co/iKd18aPO2W
- Grayling rejects ‘Europeanisation’ of justice | Law Gazette http://t.co/sRpPtVqNmd
- Townsend: unprecedented change not over | Law Gazette http://t.co/CFzksY8ZnC
- Five Golden Rules for a Successful IBA Experience | The Lawyer http://t.co/NLJHJEXV6z
- Compliance chief at scandal-hit Barclays takes time out due to "stress and exhaustion" | The Lawyer http://t.co/Ta0n01OUe8
- English solicitors on the edge as profession faces meltdown your business advantage http://t.co/oT6HsD9ttR
- UK law firm collapses under new PI rules | The Global Legal Post http://t.co/iPmsSzafWk
- Big data issues for investors raised by SEC chief | The Global Legal Post http://t.co/L4DUffO778
- GCs likely to be reached by law firm bloggers | The Global Legal Post http://t.co/N3NSLw674d
- Global commercial law market worth US$300 billion | The Global Legal Post http://t.co/mIVegyYSue
- Barclays compliance chief takes stress leave | The Global Legal Post http://t.co/WC1Mr9ILxI
- Lord Neuberger: Legal aid cuts threaten to deny justice http://t.co/XpspyMcUfX
- ‘Get big, get niche or get out,’ Marshall tells personal injury firms | Solicitors Journal http://t.co/OlsyqpJe7Y
- High Court rejects challenge to BSB disciplinary tribunals | Legal Futures http://t.co/dE5brA3iEh
- SRA launches review of COFA role | Legal Futures http://t.co/DObyCfeGyA
- The SRA is right to devolve compliance responsibility to firms, but they still need guidance | Law Gazette http://t.co/gLKxpyfjZk
- No firm is too big to fail, says SRA director | Law Gazette http://t.co/Tg4jkWRH9Z
- Barrass: don't be afraid to speak to the SRA | Law Gazette http://t.co/9yYiYlpLWQ
- Rates consultation coming next month, reveals judge | Law Gazette http://t.co/UvGHb0QTyd
- Guideline hourly rates review could begin next month | Solicitors Journal http://t.co/9vcTTNJzFb
- £160 duty solicitor fee ‘unlikely to be viable’ | Solicitors Journal http://t.co/kqFY0wvjaj
- Footballers and employment law | Law Gazette http://t.co/iWCVfBFPmh
- Now is a great moment to push for data about crime and justice to be published online | Law Gazette http://t.co/hgD8Ogp19w
- What’s holding back family mediation? | Law Gazette http://t.co/cUd57pMDJf
- Mayson attacks market in "spurious claims" and urges focus on value | Legal Futures http://t.co/cY6vsktKNI
- Court clarifies statelessness in Al-Jedda: Home secretary acted unlawfully | New Law Journal: http://t.co/kSDlcsPZ0D
- Asylum in disarray: Call for detained fast track system to be closed | New Law Journal: http://t.co/TueWSPIglg
- Pennington's Manches purchase results in 115-partner firm | New Law Journal: http://t.co/0gpqLcjVCi
- Magna Carta: 800th anniversary should remind us to keep check on authority of the state | New Law Journal: http://t.co/HGW6odUVWq
- EU Charter of Fundamental Rights trumps domestic law | New Law Journal: http://t.co/K6QJ4upIxQ
- “Flexible” working on the Queen’s Bench: First flexible vacancies are advertised | New Law Journal: http://t.co/smP9UYaf5x
- SRA targets document storage in aim to save millions | New Law Journal: http://t.co/KYRTwRF4KV
- Banks await fate of LIBOR | New Law Journal: http://t.co/9bIgnmdexn
- Banker can’t lord it over villagers | New Law Journal: http://t.co/1UvRjldmeB
- Townsend: regulation "needs to be like radiotherapy" | New Law Journal: http://t.co/jY7YHk0vwW
- Khawar Qureshi QC to chair international arbitration debate - Halsbury’s Law Exchange debate | New Law Journal: http://t.co/I8yVHH1Yi6
- Demise of single joint expert? Results of UK Register of Expert Witnesses Survey 2013 revealed | New Law Journal: http://t.co/xJXWyBlmyK
- Criminal firms will collapse, not consolidate, if legal aid cuts are too fast, government warned | Legal Futures http://t.co/8iaLDJeUkr
- SRA to strip away restrictions on qualifying as a solicitor | Legal Futures http://t.co/Si69ZCRkib
- Solicitor faces being struck off for turning blind eye to money laundering http://t.co/QT4CsvMUZ6
- Jackson: we’ll hear from appeal court soon | Law Gazette http://t.co/jHvXMPAtJU
- LCJ urges Wales to start afresh | Law Gazette http://t.co/h6SvNZmgX4
- Disclosing dirty laundry? | The Global Legal Post http://t.co/QCrcmbdNcv
- ABA International to arrive in London this week | The Global Legal Post http://t.co/5F5V1u8g9u
- Lawyers' security meeting in Pakistan ends in scuffle | The Global Legal Post http://t.co/cMFPvnacYI
- Clients get sceptical about premium law firms | The Global Legal Post http://t.co/dPe8U1ofja
- Peer makes fresh attempt at cohabitation rights bill | Solicitors Journal http://t.co/7lSqE0uaXw
- The SRA has six million files in storage | Solicitors Journal http://t.co/0BaU4BaeLW
- For firms to offer the same service in the same old way is selling Scotland short | The Lawyer http://t.co/wgFmxzHr9q
- Scottish model of the independent law firm has a lot going for it | The Lawyer http://t.co/vCihhlKS4x
- There are concerns that Scottish planning policy could put the brake on development | The Lawyer http://t.co/ofs6mAXmY4
- Real estate deals in Scotland are up but there are complex motives behind the sales | The Lawyer http://t.co/tKWeAmP0g8
- International firms are finding the French market has passed its best | The Lawyer http://t.co/tVHekFpTD8
- Document management: The digital edge | The Lawyer http://t.co/93A9Psx1AU
- Good old British household names dominated the deals listings in September | The Lawyer http://t.co/eu45Z6r40r
- High Court delivers blow to libel tourism in Magnitsky libel ruling | The Lawyer http://t.co/BQ3GvKNFLw
- SRA seeks to save millions with intervention rules change | Law Gazette http://t.co/VVT7CI77E7
- Training overhaul at least four years away, says SRA | Law Gazette http://t.co/ETjLfhqh93
- Regulators defend separate responses to LETR | Solicitors Journal http://t.co/vcy7FWTnPP
- Pioneer Law Gazette editor Sheila Pratt dies | Law Gazette http://t.co/MCxTRzfyQH
- Regional firms buy files from Harris Cartier in PII fallout | Law Gazette http://t.co/68QINFAOM4
- Room for ‘only 300 criminal firms’ | Law Gazette http://t.co/I6BzKqGJav
- Justice Secretary Grayling: legal market needs to be more diverse and innovative | Legal Futures http://t.co/mQXSlt1e9u
- The UK is a non-protectionist island in a sea of closed jurisdictions | Law Gazette http://t.co/T100TG21bX
- Judicial recusal: judge must step down in circumstances where there appears to be bias or apparent bias | Law Gazette http://t.co/ackynEa0Jc
- National Crime Agency: the big picture | Law Gazette http://t.co/s2yHrGir8D
- Regulating ABSs: levelling the playing field | Law Gazette http://t.co/ylWQT1IPLw
- Clash between the Mail and Ed Miliband can teach us a lot about human rights & crisis management | Law Gazette http://t.co/fJn4CjPwDR
- EU access directive | Law Gazette http://t.co/bIawEKbHrJ
- Scholarship payments on offer: 11 law degree scholarships worth £6,000 & placements with leading firms | Law Gazette http://t.co/bIegw5jxiA
- Standardised property deals procedure launched | Law Gazette http://t.co/dc6Gux9p7R
- Poor due diligence plagues lateral hire | Law Gazette http://t.co/pV5qNvSPaV
- Britons take to video to learn US law | Law Gazette http://t.co/gFePOsBzmx
- Legal training shake-up must not ‘dumb down’ | Law Gazette http://t.co/6tw5ctb6Up
- Comparison site aims exclusively at SME market | Legal Futures http://t.co/mGmuhhxsuu
- Scottish chiefs split over future of the market | The Lawyer http://t.co/tBAW5eP23G
- 'No more the meek & mild subservience', arise Madam Counsel | TheLawMap Interview with Jane Needham SC, Senior Vice President, NSW Australia Bar Association http://t.co/Yqs07o8C3x
- 'To be left alone is the most precious thing one can ask of the modern world' | TheLawMap Interview with Dr. Paul Bernal, Lectuer at the University of East Anglia Law School http://tinyurl.com/ohvc2vf
- In-house interview: GC Simon Dowler of legal team at software house Misys | The Lawyer http://t.co/c1itmQk9CQ
- Weekender Interview: Florian Schmidt-Gabain, lawyer, 31 http://t.co/NCW7lEPJN9
Interesting articles on the study of law, legal training, pupillage, associates, legal academia & law students:
- No law degree required for would-be solicitors | Times Higher Education http://t.co/UvnlmfMBac
- Teaching Legal History: A CFP for the Book http://t.co/TAYC0xEz8X
- A career as a solicitor/barrister ... next steps presentation http://t.co/Q1JZYnHmkV
- US: Law school grad gets boot camp in Vegas bird death http://t.co/G8ndv18ZIr
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.
- Crown Prosecution Service admits misleading public over complaints http://t.co/tSedtauybp
- Testing Europe’s Conscience - the drowning of more than 300 Africans near the Italian island of Lampedusa http://t.co/jf2oRgi2M4
- Lawyers link tax evasion and human rights http://t.co/Lg0RwLcRmY
- What is the reasonable way for UK asylum seekers to 'prove they are gay'? http://t.co/brxrM3OdrX
- Is this the end for Britain as a centre for libel tourism? http://t.co/uLNZxVjS81
- Britain's most senior judge attacks judicial review curbs http://t.co/nolmZSAwdJ
- Leveson inquiry's Robert Jay: witnesses deterred by fear of press 'monstering' http://t.co/xSSAmJP9KB
- This is how broke criminal barristers are: http://t.co/NBEcyXaio7
- Essex courtroom fight heightens security concerns http://t.co/FjFg7xiSQJ
Lawyers, Law Firms, Chambers & ABS in the news this week:
Friday 18th October
- Linklaters PE duo Bagshaw and Youle quit to join White & Case http://t.co/VeEzaKjXdm
- Simpson and Kirkland land top roles on $1bn Melrose-KKR deal http://t.co/5B8GG15W4R
- Former Pinsents disputes head leads trio of hires for Irwin Mitchell http://t.co/yN6AxE08nn
- Incoming Ashurst chair Tidswell targets global elite status http://t.co/VO8UqqL9wQ
- DBS Law cuts staff working hours following record turnover http://t.co/50xjwBVPde
- Jones Day and Cleary score goal for Indonesian acquisition of Inter Milan http://t.co/jZYr5Evwzw
- BHP Billiton loses anti-corruption and compliance boss to Steptoe & Johnson http://t.co/JKiDHsvyOo
- 39 Essex Street first in line to set up Kuala Lumpur base http://t.co/hqtCKs0Z1q
- Fiji Airways flies in local senior associate as new GC http://t.co/aCu94XPqgK
- Former Blake Dawson chair Padbury elected as Ashurst vice chairman http://t.co/zdqcJXDKT4
- Morrisons to double in-house team as it adds DAC Beachcroft, Eversheds, DWF to new panel http://t.co/VT96UizEmE
- Former Freshfields London head Tim Jones to join England Rugby 2015 http://t.co/fqT5JbHqjW
- Davis Polk, Freshfields and MoFo take lead on £185m Chinese supermarket deal http://t.co/My1c5NHPKc
- Morgan Lewis & Bockius mass defection to Gide http://t.co/5hnugQT54f
- Cooley expands to become rising name in Washington DC http://t.co/gW9qoPFvh0
- Fountain Court eyes Singapore launch http://t.co/LN8RNSSawS
- Libel boutique PSB Law shuts down after two partners head to Hill Dicks http://t.co/v40abwwpZk
- Exchange Chambers expands ahead of cost-cutting office move http://t.co/MZjTZEkk9x
- Irwin Mitchell hires Pinsents lit chief Kissack as disputes head http://t.co/QkfjAiGYh6
- Linklaters star private equity duo quit for White & Case after management showdown http://t.co/u20bPceOfT
- Plymouth law firm Curtis Whiteford Crocker re-brands and continues to grow http://t.co/hhFREzfp7S
- Penningtons gets its Man(ches): a move facilitated by a pre-pack administration deal http://t.co/7WN6eFrfOa
- Co-op scraps plan to offer 100 training contracts per year http://t.co/9UbaITVmqA
- Penningtons takes over Manches to create 115-partner UK practice http://t.co/PzSzqhSx9h
- TMT boutique Kemp Little to launch technology consultancy arm http://t.co/ffibuysQb3
- Devereux Chambers elects new head | The Lawyer http://t.co/Nhl6OS8hDk
- High Court refuses to delay high street court battle with MasterCard http://t.co/RGszLxEGID
- Tidswell beats Geffen to new chairman role at Ashurst http://t.co/D8CvkfuhQv
- Gide in shock swoop on Morgan Lewis Paris for nine-partner team http://t.co/8FSvjiSRoC
- Penningtons buys Manches in pre-pack deal http://t.co/AQWYCpqpI3
- Two Chinese firms are being sued in a blazing forestry deal row http://t.co/vD6kkpm7Yk
- Allen & Overy leads as Lloyds Banking Group offloads Australian assets http://t.co/bnfSZwLihP
- Penningtons acquires Manches as merger talks close http://t.co/f1rXj3VxNP
- Quadrant aims for Asia and energy with joint senior clerk hire http://t.co/ZcD80MGPPw
- Gianni Origoni to open Hong Kong office http://t.co/0BstaDlVjZ
- Kevin Gold reappointed as Mishcon holds first-ever management elections http://t.co/YLyatHTuD9
- Wolters Kluwer divests to focus on legal http://t.co/p9uwlSHAcm
- Top US sports lawyer Jim Tanner starts own practice http://t.co/hqksoJBCqE
- Amazon forest lawyer goes on trial for fraud http://t.co/8rXkvTmiPd
- Squire Sanders creates healthcare fellowship first http://t.co/ul92qzClFC
- Wragge & Co outsourcing deal results in 26 support staff redundancies http://t.co/fLUfsu2wV3
- Taylor Wessing brings in Nabarro infrastructure head http://t.co/FkbveXesw1
- London litigation boutique goes under as professional indemnity cover fails http://t.co/mBsNneTCdP
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