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By Legal Week | December 1, 2010
Even before the financial crisis it was clear that the growing economies, Africa and Asia in particular, were creating an increasing source of individual wealth and new clients for private client lawyers. The increased activity levels witnessed in these regions by corporate and commercial lawyers are mirrored among the private client community, with the number of wealthy people as a proportion of the population growing more rapidly on continents such as Africa than in many other areas.
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By Legal Week | December 1, 2010
Imagine yourself, if you will, as a successful lawyer in 1850. You have a thriving practice and, with your wealth, you have built a house on a nice plot of land in the open fields two miles from Marble Arch. It is the envy of your neighbours - smart, spacious and comfortable. Over the years with your growing family it suits you very well and you are able to hand it on to the next generation.
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By Legal Week | December 1, 2010
The world of wills and probate has recently become a battleground over whether writing a will should be a reserved legal activity. A reserved legal activity may only be carried out by regulated legal professionals such as solicitors and barristers. However, people who are not subject to any regulation at all may complete a great deal of legal advice and services including - to the vexation of the legal profession - the writing of wills. This has resulted in a whole industry of non-lawyer will writers fuelled by the fact that the majority of adults in the UK do not have a will, meaning that there is a significant underlying demand for their services. It is, of course, in the legal profession's interest that will writing becomes a reserved activity, but lawyers argue it is in the public's interest, too. Arguments have been advanced both for and against regulating, based on the need for consumer protection on one hand and the cost burden and effectiveness of regulation on the other.
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By Legal Week | October 6, 2010
Lawyers from across Asia will gather in Singapore next week (12 October) to discuss the impact of a dramatic rise in private wealth on the region's legal market. The inaugural Legal Week Private Client Forum Asia - Legal Week's first conference in Asia - will bring together senior private client lawyers from across the region to discuss the challenges and opportunities that are posed by Asia's emergence as a private client powerhouse.
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By Friederike Heine | August 31, 2010
Boodle Hatfield has strengthened its corporate practice with the hire of Nabarro partner Richard Beavan. Beavan, who will join the West End firm tomorrow (1 September), focuses on fundraisings, takeovers, acquisitions and disposals, venture capital, restructuring and corporate governance.
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By John Malpas | July 14, 2010
A gathering of leading private client lawyers has given the UK coalition Government's emergency budget a cautious thumbs-up, despite the tension generated by clear differences in the pre-coalition taxation policies of the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats. Leaders from the private client legal community gathered at the May Fair Hotel in London on 29 June - a week after the emergency budget was delivered - to debate the impact of the package of tax changes unveiled by Chancellor George Osborne.
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By Claire Ruckin | May 27, 2010
Allen & Overy (A&O) private client spin-off Maurice Turnor Gardner (MTG) has bolstered its ranks with the hire of two new partners for its trusts and pensions practice. Jenny McKeown and Helena Berman are set to join the boutique's partnership in September from pensions and HR consultancy Mercer, where they are currently senior in-house pensions litigators.
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By Legal Week | April 7, 2010
Hastings-Bass and the law of mistake, the growing use of common law trust by Islamic investors, and a report from Legal Week's Trust and Estates Litigation Forum...
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By Legal Week | March 30, 2010
In her opening remarks at this year's Legal Week Trust and Estates Litigation Forum, co-chair Shan Warnock-Smith QC noted that there are a number of recurring themes that seem to surface when talking about trust and estates law. This year's hot topics were in fact the re-emergence of issues that have been on the agenda in various forms for many years.
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By Legal Week | March 30, 2010
The last decade has seen a dramatic increase in the use of trusts by Islamic families and considerable efforts have been made by banks and independent trust companies alike to ensure compatibility of their products with the principles of Sharia law. But why has the trust, exported to common law jurisdictions over the past few centuries, suddenly found such favour in the Middle East? To understand the attraction, we first have to understand the nature of Sharia law and particularly the rules governing succession. The vast majority of countries apply a system of succession based upon a combination of residence, domicile and the location of the assets in question. A few, such as Lebanon, will drill down further and apply different rules to different religions.
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By Alex Berry | February 12, 2018
Firm responds to allegations of fraudulent misrepresentation and breach of fiduciary duty
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By Legal Week | February 7, 2018
Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) private client litigation head Rupert Ticehurst has been at the firm since 2011 when he joined from Herbert Smith Freehills,…
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By Samantha Joseph | February 5, 2018
The biggest obstacle was proving that a client with $3,550 in medical bills had suffered permanent, devastating injury worthy of a multimillion-dollar award.
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By Samantha Joseph | January 8, 2018
Ver Ploeg & Lumpkin shareholders Stephen A. Marino Jr. and Rochelle N. Wimbush and associate Arya A. Li represented the Estefans' company, Pin-Pon Corp.
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By Harry N. Mazadoorian | January 3, 2018
Resisting regulation when it is truly needed would put many disputants at a distinct disadvantage. But overregulation would sap ADR of the very vitality which has been its lifeblood: party determination and control.
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By Lizzy McLellan | January 2, 2018
The firm has added to its private client, litigation and public and project finance practices.
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By Alanna Clair and Shari Klevens | December 20, 2017
Sometimes attorneys overlook the additional obligation set by the ethical rules for attorneys to protect confidential information obtained during the course of the representation.
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By Joseph Evans | December 18, 2017
BBC and Guardian set to defend themselves as offshore firm Appleby launches breach of confidence proceedings
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By Legal Week | December 13, 2017
Full details of the Private Client Team of the Year category at the British Legal Awards 2017
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By Legal Week | December 12, 2017
Survey of more than 3,000 high-net-worth individuals finds just one in four have plans in place to transfer their wealth to the next generation
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