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RULES & PROCESS Entries Now OpenEntries to the Annual Legal Excellence Awards are now open. Annual Legal Excellence Awards 2021 We will email entry forms to all members of CLS, which are available on request from: admin@cambslaw.com. For individual and team awards, your entry must not exceed 750 words.For firm awards, your entry must not exceed … Read more

Andy Lyalle Covid 19 and the economic ramifications have led to a predictable increase in commercial legal disputes.  There is however a paradox, the same factors mean that potential clients are reluctant to commit their money to a legal action or take the financial risk of “it all going wrong”.  We at Temple Legal Protection ( … Read more

What if your dream is to practice law but, arriving in England as a teenager, you have had no formal education and cannot understand, read nor write English?  What if your cultural influences to date have suggested that you cannot, should not, pursue law as a career.  Is that an insurmountable barrier?  Not for Hameeda Hussani.  … Read more

Julie Brannan, Director of Education and Training SQE offers an opportunity for us all, Julie Brannan The residents of Cambridge use solicitors at crucial times in their life. When they do, they reasonably expect their solicitor will have gone through rigorous training so that they are competent and fit to practise. The vast majority live up … Read more

Anna Bradley, Chair of the SRA Board Hello again, Cambridge & District, thank you once again for the opportunity to write for you. May I wish you all a Happy New Year. Hopefully 2021 will be full of more cheer than 2020. Taking stock – risk assessing the future for your firm, Anna Bradley What we … Read more

I’m a Senior Associate at Ashtons and have recently joined the CLS Committee as Website Officer. Who’s Who Charlotte Vallins I’d been keen for a while to be more involved with the local Law Society so when I spotted the Website Officer vacancy in the CLS Connect Newsletter, I thought it would be the perfect opportunity. … Read more

Here are the latest moves, promotions and achievements from the law firms of Cambridgeshire… Buckles Solicitors expands into Cambridge despite the pandemic Buckles Solicitors acquired Cambridge-based Miller Sands Solicitors back in April 2020 at the height of the first COVID lockdown. By combining forces with the former Miller Sands team, Buckles has been able to roll-out … Read more

On 4 November 2020 the Cambridgeshire Law Society welcomed Stephanie Boyce, the Deputy Vice President of the Law Society, to speak to us about her career journey and her hopes and plans for her own presidency in 2021. An audience with Stephanie Boyce For those of you who were not able to attend the event, we … Read more

As many of CLS’s members continue to work remotely, Sally Courtney of Promise Consultancy shared her thoughts on how to do so more effectively whilst at a distance from colleagues and the normal work environment. Working from home more effectively 46 members attended a webinar on 20 October 2020 given by Sally Courtney. Sally’s career began … Read more