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Alistair Fletcher (pictured) has been appointed president of Liverpool Law Society. He is currently the head of the social housing department at Liverpool firm Brabners Chaffe Street.
Council groups in merger
Solicitors in Local Government and the Association of Council Secretaries and Solicitors last week formally backed plans for a merger.
Bar chair’s inaugural message
The immediate past-president of the American Bar Association has strongly denounced alternative business structures, arguing that non-lawyer investment in law firms compromises the client’s best interests and undermines professional independence.
William T (Bill) Robinson III gave the strongest indication yet that the US will not bend soon to pressure for liberalisation, pointing to the jurisdiction’s Model Rules of Professional Conduct to underpin his arguments.
Three new Law Society senior office-holders take up their posts today. Lucy Scott-Moncrieff (pictured) becomes president, Nick Fluck vice-president and Andrew Caplen deputy vice-president.
Strasbourg judge
Paul Mahoney has been appointed Britain’s new judge at the European Court of Human Rights. The barrister, who has spent 30 years as an administrator at the Strasbourg court, polled nearly twice as many votes as his nearest rival, Ben Emmerson QC.
World pride
As a partner in a small property-based firm that started just 18 months ago, I have been greatly concerned by two issues in particular – mortgage panels and professional indemnity insurance. Like many colleagues in the provinces, it has often appeared to me that the ‘powers that be’ within the Law Society are only interested in the large firms and have not really shown any interest in small provincial firms.
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