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...It was during her maternity leave that Megan Gray, a corporate lawyer at an elite international firm, realised she could not return to her job as it was....
...Private equity firm Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe has hired Megan Callahan as an operating partner. She was previously operating chief of digital healthcare group Twill....
...have come forward as part of the #MeToo movement and aware how few were people of colour, Ms Chiu broke her NDA and revealed her identity in She Said, a book by New York Times journalists Jodi Kantor and Megan...
...The Solicitors Regulation Authority reviewed 375 law firms in 2014, and found one example where the money laundering officer was an 18-year-old part-time worker....
...Goulding, a Liberty solicitor....
...Robbie Constance, a partner at solicitors’ firm RPC, said the wealth management industry should view the report as “clearly a final warning from the FCA”....
...During his performance, the former Texas solicitor-general, who has argued before the Supreme Court, impersonated Darth Vader and famously read Dr Seuss’s “Green Eggs and Ham” to his daughters who were watching...
...Megan Fradgley is a solicitor at Thomson Snell & Passmore, a law firm Late payer hits our cash flow One of the multinational companies I trade with is demanding longer terms to pay....
...Bill Knight, a top City solicitor, and Sir David Walker, both respected City figures, are to review the much-delayed official report into the collapse of Royal Bank of Scotland with an eye towards publishing...
...The UK Solicitors Regulation Authority – which governs conflict of interest rules in the profession – said it would study the Lehman report to determine whether anything in it demanded further investigation...
...Suzanne Kingston of Dawsons solicitors said: “It could be that the banks think they may be running too much in terms of risk as the outcome of some of these cases is uncertain.”...
...“Mr Green has always emphatically denied these allegations,” his solicitor, Michael Caplan QC, said on Thursday. “The police need now to learn the lessons from their operation.”...
...Bankrupt people also cannot hold certain public offices, such as MP, councillor or magistrate, and cannot practice in some professions, including solicitor and accountant....
...Partner profits at one of the City’s best-known law firms plunged below the £1m mark last year as the credit crunch finally caught up with the solicitors who did many of the biggest boom-time deals....
...It has emerged that Gordon Dadds, Mr Gill’s solicitor, has already lodged a complaint against the FSA for failing to follow up on the case after initial discussions with the regulator in 2004....
...As part of the package, the government will introduce legislation allowing crown courts to bar convicted fraudsters from practising in certain key professions, including as a solicitor, financial service...
...“This judgment is a shocking indictment of the way in which this ultra hazardous operation was conducted,” said Des Collins, the solicitor that acted for a large group of homeowners....
...“Not enough progress has been made by the judiciary to persuade and convince solicitors to apply to the bench,” he said....
...A large group of employees at Dresdner Kleinwort, the investment bank taken over by Germany’s Commerzbank, for example, recently instructed solicitors in an escalating row over unpaid bonuses....
...A jury at Southwark Crown Court on Friday returned guilty verdicts against a solicitor and his father-in-law who were accused of using confidential information about the take-over of a British technology...
...Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer is to freeze pay for its London-based rank-and-file lawyers and slash starting salaries for new solicitors in the latest cost-cutting by a top law firm affected by the financial...
...Solicitors specialising in “big money’’ break-ups report a surge in requests to slash maintenance awards for spouses as bankers and traders come to grips with the reality of sharply curtailed income and...
...“Employers should not assume that the label ‘discretionary’ gives them absolute freedom over whether to make payment under a bonus scheme,” said Louise Randall, a solicitor at Shoo-smiths....
...Alarmed at the potential impact on her credit rating, she contacted her solicitor in January 2007 when British Gas threatened legal action....
...Clifford Chance has a reputation for aggressively slashing costs through actions such as its shock 2003 decision to cut 20 assistant solicitors and support staff....
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