Sophie Houghton
Professional support lawyer
Sophie Houghton is a professional support lawyer in the dispute resolution team at LexisPSL (plus.lexis.com/uk/practical-guidance-dispute-resolution).
Professional support lawyer
Sophie Houghton is a professional support lawyer in the dispute resolution team at LexisPSL (plus.lexis.com/uk/practical-guidance-dispute-resolution).
If you’re exceeding guideline hourly rates, vague assertions won’t cut it, writes Sophie Houghton
Sophie Houghton on why it doesn’t pay to put forward overly ambitious figures in costs budgets
Sophie Houghton reviews Part 36 offers & their role in maximising costs recovery in fixed costs cases
Sophie Houghton rounds up some key points for practitioners to consider ahead of the extension of fixed recoverable costs
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MOVERS & SHAKERS
Freeths—Ruth Clare
National real estate team bolstered by partner hire in Manchester
Farrer & Co—Claire Gordon
Partner appointed head of family team
mfg Solicitors—Neil Harrison
Firm strengthens agriculture and rural affairs team with partner return
NEWS
Conveyancing lawyers have enjoyed a rapid win after campaigning against UK Finance’s decision to charge for access to the Mortgage Lenders’ Handbook
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has launched a recruitment drive for talented early career and more senior barristers and solicitors
Regulators differed in the clarity and consistency of their post-Mazur advice and guidance, according to an interim report by the Legal Services Board (LSB)
The dangers of uncritical artificial intelligence (AI) use in legal practice are no longer hypothetical. In this week's NLJ, Dr Charanjit Singh of Holborn Chambers examines cases where lawyers relied on ‘hallucinated’ citations — entirely fictitious authorities generated by AI tools
The Solicitors Act 1974 may still underpin legal regulation, but its age is increasingly showing. Writing in NLJ this week, Victoria Morrison-Hughes of the Association of Costs Lawyers argues that the Act is ‘out of step with modern consumer law’ and actively deters fairness
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