(Thanks to Martin Rowson) Jotwell has just published my review of Milton Regan’s chapter on Taxes and Death: The Rise and Demise of an American Law Firm in Austin Sarat’s edited collection, Law Firms, Legal Culture, and Legal Practice, 52 Stud. in Law, Politics, and Society 107 (special issue) (2010), available at SSRN. Here is [...]
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(thanks to Byfield) As I came out of the BBC yesterday with Des Hudson*, the chief executive of the Law Society, he said Rick Kordowski was a criminal. I reminded Des that the police didn’t think so. He wasn’t happy. We’d both been invited to discuss Solicitors from Hell on Radio 4′s You and Yours [...]
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(thanks to John Bolch of Family Lore) There are 45 comments on the state of Rick Kordowski and his website Solicitors from Hell on a page detailing a judge’s latest suggestion about what should happen to Kordowski. It seems the judge suggested that the Law Society and the Bar Council should consider taking action against [...]
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City law firms are ticked off because government legal procurement doesn’t seem to be going their way. Legal Week reported on government’s reliance on one or two firms for its banking crisis work, well, mostly one–Slaughter & May. During the Northern Rock crisis it billed government £20 million in fees. The latest beneficiary is [...]
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