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31 July 2013
Issue: 7571 / Categories: Legal News
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Job losses

Commercial firm to lose 83 employees

International commercial law firm Hill Dickinson is to make 83 job losses, including 14 at partner level and 69 employees. However, 44 employees have accepted voluntary redundancy. The firm employs more than 1,350 people including 175 partners. Senior partner, David Wareing says: “We have a strong and sustainable business and indeed many of our teams recorded revenue growth in the last financial year. Inevitably however we have been affected like all our competitors by the difficult trading conditions which presently exist in our regional centres.

Issue: 7571 / Categories: Legal News
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MOVERS & SHAKERS

Gateley Legal—Jack Kelly

Gateley Legal—Jack Kelly

Gateley Legal expands Midlands residential development team

Gibson Dunn—Richard Surtees

Gibson Dunn—Richard Surtees

Gibson Dunn adds employee benefits and executive compensation practice in London with partner Richard Surtees

Laytons ETL—Alec Cameron

Laytons ETL—Alec Cameron

Laytons ETL appoints new partner and head of intellectual property disputes

NEWS
A series of recent decisions has clarified important principles across property law, from perpetuities to lease renewals and public rights over land
Employers cannot rely on wellbeing services alone to defend workplace stress claims after a High Court decision awarding almost £1m to an overworked employee
Andy Burnham's brand of 'Manchesterism' could offer fresh thinking on legal aid and access to justice if it reaches Westminster, according to Roger Smith, NLJ columnist and former director of JUSTICE
The constitutional fallout from a change of prime minister, rather than the politics, is under scrutiny as questions arise over the limits of executive authority in a leadership transition
The legal profession is undergoing a fundamental shift from selling services to creating technology-enabled products, according to Professor Luke Mason, Head of School of Law at Regent's University London
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