Nine of the UK’s leading law firms have signed up to a literacy challenge with the National Literacy Trust. The Vision for Literacy Business Pledge has been signed by Baker & McKenzie, Slaughter and May, Clifford Chance, Bird & Bird, Allen & Overy and Norton Rose Fulbright. The pledge commits the firms to help raise literacy levels in the UK. Activities include running book clubs, and taking part in volunteer reading programmes with schoolchildren. Shockingly, more than a third of adults in the UK’s most deprived areas lack the literacy skills of an 11-year-old.
01 February 2017
Literacy challenge
MOVERS & SHAKERS
Signature Litigation—Catherine Naylor
International fraud and asset recovery offering boosted by partner hire
Stevens & Bolton—Alexa Payet
Private wealth disputes team adds contentious probate specialist
Morgan Lewis—Paul Feldberg
Firm strengthens investigations and sanctions capabilities with London partner hire
NEWS
Cheshire West, which established an ‘acid test’ for deprivation of liberty safeguards, has been overturned by the Supreme Court
The Chancery Division and other segments of the High Court are to be replaced by a new Business and Property Division (BPD), in a major civil justice shakeup
Law firms that hold client money will need to file annual accountants’ reports and make a declaration, the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) confirmed this week
Two district judges and a tribunal judge have been sanctioned for delays in delivering judgments and orders
Private equity (PE) investment into UK law firms halved to £250m last year, but deal volume rose, according to research by Acquira Professional Services’ Momentum private equity market tracker
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