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Criminal and human rights practitioner Kirsty Brimelow KC has been elected vice chair of the Bar Council for 2025

Firm welcomes three partners in London & Liverpool

US litigation firm Quinn Emanuel has become the second firm to hike salaries for London newly qualified associates to £180,000

TLT recruits asset finance specialist

Two additions to firm’s debt & asset recovery team

Two new partners at the London-based firm

Specialist insurance firm announces new managing partner

Now a partner at Edmonds Marshall McMahon, Satnam Tumani has more than 30 years’ experience in fraud and corruption prosecutions, including 18 years at the Serious Fraud Office. He talks to NLJ about some particularly challenging cases, and his long-term 'unrealistic' plan to head for the mountains

Three partner promotions in Cardiff & Southampton

New head of information law joins firm in Bristol

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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

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Conveyancers celebrate U-turn over mortgage handbook fee

Conveyancing lawyers have enjoyed a rapid win after campaigning against UK Finance’s decision to charge for access to the Mortgage Lenders’ Handbook

Are you suited to a career in prosecution?

The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has launched a recruitment drive for talented early career and more senior barristers and solicitors

LSB marks Mazur homework

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)

NLJ this week: Stuck in the past?

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

NLJ this week: No automatic bar on ‘user damages’

A Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) ruling has reopened debate on the availability of ‘user damages’ in competition claims. Writing in NLJ this week, Edward Nyman of Hausfeld explains how the CAT allowed Dr Liza Lovdahl Gormsen’s alternative damages case against Meta to proceed, rejecting arguments that such damages are barred in competition law

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Profession

MOVERS & SHAKERS

Freeths—Ruth Clare

Farrer & Co—Claire Gordon

mfg Solicitors—Neil Harrison