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LawWorks awards

03 December 2015
Issue: 7679 / Categories: Legal News
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The stars of pro bono were celebrated at the recent LawWorks Annual Pro Bono Awards and lecture held at Linklaters and sponsored by LexisNexis and the Law Society. The winners included: Children’s Pro Bono Legal Service, formed by Allen & Overy, Coram Children’s Legal Centre and DLA Piper (pro bono partnership); Emma Williams Family Law (small firm); and Hilton Worldwide (in-house team). The winners in the firms categories were Muckle, DLA Piper and Duncan Lewis. DLA Piper’s Jennifer Deakin won best individual, Allen & Overy’s Maeve Hanna won the Junior Lawyers Division award and LawWorks Cardiff Pro Bono Employment Clinic won the LawWorks Cymru Award.

Issue: 7679 / Categories: Legal News
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NEWS
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Mazur v Charles Russell Speechlys [2025] has upended assumptions about who may conduct litigation, warn Kevin Latham and Fraser Barnstaple of Kings Chambers in this week's NLJ. But is it as catastrophic as first feared?
Lord Sales has been appointed to become the Deputy President of the Supreme Court after Lord Hodge retires at the end of the year
Limited liability partnerships (LLPs) are reportedly in the firing line in Chancellor Rachel Reeves upcoming Autumn budget
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