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Over the last few months, your time and money has never been more valuable. Legal firms all over the country are being forced to review their processes. How are you going to adapt? Become more efficient? Improve your customer experience? Embrace digital technology? Dragon speech recognition can help. Dragon software helps you to type 3 times … Read more
Simon Cummins The Cambridgeshire Law Society (CLS) and Cambridge Junior Lawyers Division (CJLD) were keen not to let COVID put a dampener on the celebrations this year. For the first time, the two societies joined forces and held a virtual, celebratory, event at the end of September for NQs across the Cambridgeshire region. The event was … Read more
Job Title: Family Law Solicitor Reporting to: Head of Family Law Department: Family Location: Derby Job Advert CartwrightKing Covering all aspects of Family Law work, you will provide technical expertise and guidance to clients with emphasis on exceptional service Varied duties including dealing with a range of Family Law work including: Initial consultation and … Read more
Newly qualified solicitors complete training contracts at law firm mfg Three up and coming county solicitors are celebrating after completing their training contracts with one of Worcestershire’s leading law firms. Kidderminster-based lawyers Katie Hodson, Abbey Jones and Victoria Wall have completed their respective training contracts and are now set to take on more clients and cases … Read more
Judith Pederzolli – Director of Business Tax and SDLT, PEM, Cambridge There have been significant changes to both the SDLT legislation and HMRC’s approach to the application of the rules. This can often leave both conveyancers and taxpayers uncertain as to how a transaction should be treated for SDLT purposes. Common questions include whether the residential … Read more
Inspection of a Company’s members’ register for a proper purpose time is of the essence › The Problem Nicholas Woolf In order to determine who the members of a company registered in England and Wales are it is possible to do so by inspecting the company register. Indeed this is likely to be the only reliable … Read more
Ruth Taylor Questions for Northamptonshire Law Society Bulletin Autumn 2020 – COVID Edition 1.Please provide a brief description of you, your organisation, number of employees and areas of work. Family law solicitor Ruth Taylor Family Law 2 solicitors and one secretary/ assistant Purely family law such as divorce, separation, children issues, financial settlements, injunction proceedings, change … Read more
LEICESTERSHIRE LAW SOCIETY CAMPAIGNERS RAISES £10,000 FOR CHARITY ALEX’S WISH BY HURTLING DOWN A ZIPWIRE AT SPEEEDS OF 98 MPH Twenty-eight of Leicestershire Law Society’s members and supporters joined the President, Glynis Wright, to take part in the fastest zip wire in the world, on Saturday 22nd February. After weeks of fundraising for the President’s chosen … Read more
Charmaine Rolfe Associate, Birketts Charmaine Rolfe As we all know, 2020 has been a very strange year so far. We hope all our members are doing well and that they have adjusted to these strange times and new ways of working. We started the year with our annual curry evening in January, which was a great … Read more
Job Advert Alexander and Co Due to expansion we invite applications for the following positions: Wills and Probate Solicitor with over 2 years’ experience. The candidate must have a familiarity in dealing with large and complex estate administration as well as being able to provide IHT advice. The candidate must be able to work on their … Read more