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City giants push for more solicitors to join judiciary
Leading City partners from firms including Linklaters and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer are calling for more solicitors to join the judiciary as part of plans to increase judicial diversity. A group of partners, led by Linklaters senior partner Da...
11 Mar 2010 | 00:01
Ashurst acts for Winterflood on appeal against £4m FSA fine
Ashurst and Blackstone Chambers have represented Winterflood Securities on the trading company's bid to overturn a 2008 market abuse ruling by the Financial Services Authority (FSA). Ashurst litigation partner Edward Sparrow instructed Blackstone C...
10 Mar 2010 | 15:08
Career Clinic: Is the Bar open to older candidates?
"I am considering a career in law, specifically the Bar. I am in my mid-thirties and have an established career as a health professional. I am considering undertaking a part-time GDL at a good university followed by part-time BVC, which should take fo...
04 Mar 2010 | 11:46
QC appointments round sees almost 50% of applicants take silk status
The latest round of QC appointments has been announced today (26 February), with 129 barristers claiming the elite kitemark. One hundred and twenty nine out of a total of 275 applicants have been awarded QC status, a success rate of 47% - up on las...
26 Feb 2010 | 00:00
MoJ report sets out new taskforce in effort to boost judiciary diversity
The Ministry of Justice is to put together a new taskforce to take the lead in a drive to boost diversity among the judiciary. The Judicial Diversity Taskforce is among 53 recommendations laid out in the report issued by the Advisory Panel on Judic...
25 Feb 2010 | 15:02
Outer Temple launches spinoff company to target international work
Outer Temple Chambers has launched a standalone company, Outer Temple International (OTI), in a bid to attract international work from clients. Outer Temple barristers will initially conduct all of the new work, with the initiative led by a board o...
22 Feb 2010 | 12:38
Criminal chambers launches first UK 'procureco' business unit
Criminal set Argent Chambers is to become the first UK set to launch a separate business unit intended to compete with solicitors firms to win work direct from clients. Argent Law - due to launch in April - looks likely to be the first UK 'procurec...
18 Feb 2010 | 00:01
Commercial and Chancery Bar
Ben Rigby covers the recent pay war at the Bar as Gareth Tilley and James Mather look at a career in Chancery...
04 Feb 2010 | 17:15
Cutting out the middleman
As clients and lawyers alike look to snip off a few excess pounds here and there, it was inevitable that the well-trodden path of referrals between the Bar and instructing solicitors would come under scrutiny. Although the long-hoped-for influx of ...
03 Feb 2010 | 08:23 | 
Barclays litigation team pilots move to build links with chambers
Barclays' in-house litigation team is tightening its relationships with the Bar, with the bank asking select chambers for flexible billing arrangements and value-added services. The banking giant is calling on chambers to take on work using alterna...
28 Jan 2010 | 00:01
Herbert Smith helps Sky to court victory in long-running IT dispute
Herbert Smith has secured a major court victory for BSkyB which could see the broadcaster receive more than £200m in damages from IT supplier Electronic Data Systems (EDS). The long-awaited judgment, handed down by Mr Justice Ramsey in the Technol...
27 Jan 2010 | 13:43
Litigation funder recruits Lightman QC as investments committee chair
Harbour Litigation Fund has strengthened its ranks with the appointment of Mr Justice Gavin Lightman. Lightman, a retired High Court Judge, joined the third party litigation funder at the beginning of the year (1 January) as chairman of its investm...
21 Jan 2010 | 14:21
Bar urges chambers to offer clients a 'one-stop shop' to compete with solicitors
Bar Council chair champions radical proposals to have chambers' business units manage clients directly
13 Jan 2010 | 11:11
Career Clinic: Will a law Masters help me get ahead of the competition?
"I am a third year law student at a top 10 university looking to go into public law at the Bar. I have asked around and it seems that the area I am most interested in, judicial review, is deeply competitive. I've begun to wonder if a Masters in Law wo...
11 Jan 2010 | 11:29
Long-serving Blackstone Chambers QC dies in car accident
Blackstone Chambers is mourning the loss of Sir Ian Brownlie QC, who died in a car accident in Egypt this weekend (3 January). The well-known barrister, who was knighted for services to public international law in June last year, was called to the ...
05 Jan 2010 | 12:11
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