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03 November 2017
Issue: 7768 / Categories: Legal News , Profession
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Time to enter the LexisNexis Legal Awards 2018

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Entries are now being accepted for the 2018 LexisNexis Legal Awards. The prestigious awards (formerly known as the Halsbury Legal Awards) celebrate the achievements of lawyers across 16 categories, including new categories this year of ‘customer focus’, ‘wellbeing’, ‘international legal services’ and innovation awards for both legal service providers and suppliers to the legal sector. Nominations can also be made for the Legal Personality of the Year award, with the winner being decided by an online vote of the NLJ readership.

The judges include Joe Egan, the President of the Law Society, Edward Sparrow, Chairman of City of London Law Society, and leading human rights lawyer, Baroness Helena Kennedy QC & NLJ consultant editor David Greene. For more details visit: www.LexisNexis.co.uk/legalawards2018.

Issue: 7768 / Categories: Legal News , Profession
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MOVERS & SHAKERS

Bell Yard Kysen—Liz Giles

Bell Yard Kysen—Liz Giles

Bell Yard Kysen appoints senior legal PR and ex-government communications adviser, Liz Giles

Clarke Willmott—Lee Edwards

Clarke Willmott—Lee Edwards

Clarke Willmott boosts Southampton commercial property team with addition of partner Lee Edwards

Lime Solicitors—four promotions

Lime Solicitors—four promotions

Lime Solicitors announces four promotions

NEWS
The Attorney General, Ellie Reeves KC MP, and Solicitor General, Andy Slaughter KC MP, marked the 25th anniversary of Pro Bono Week by joining lawyers, charities, students and parliamentarians at events celebrating voluntary legal work
Witness evidence can be compromised by AI before a solicitor sees the draft, leaving safeguards focused on authorship incomplete
Possession claims are entering a new digital era, with procedural traps awaiting practitioners who assume familiar rules still govern every step
A polished legal defence may owe more to artificial intelligence than legal merit—and creditors risk paying the price in delay and expense
An indemnity costs battle with a £20m gap could reopen an important question: what weight should an approved budget carry?
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