Profession

Veteran funds specialist joins investment funds team 

Firm enhances competition practice with London partner hire

Daniel Burbeary, office managing partner of Michelman Robinson, discusses launching in London, the power of the law, and what the kitchen can teach us about litigating

Global finance group strengthened by returning partner in London

West End firm strengthens employment and immigration team with partner hire

IP firm promotes first home-grown litigation partner

Employment and people solutions offering boosted by partner hire

The Court of Appeal has halted the expanding scope for correcting the defendant party after limitation expires, reports Sarah Crowther

How alien a concept is democracy in solicitors’ firms? Sir Geoffrey Bindman KC

The long-running Mazur saga edged towards its finale as the Court of Appeal heard arguments on whether non-solicitors can ‘conduct litigation’. Writing in NLJ this week, Professor Dominic Regan of City Law School reports from a packed courtroom where 16 wigs watched Nick Bacon KC argue that Mr Justice Sheldon had failed to distinguish between ‘tasks and responsibilities’