Increasing competition, rather than Brexit, is the biggest challenge facing the West’s law firms, according to new research by accountancy group Smith & Williamson. Its 2018 Law Firm Survey, developed in association with The Lawyer, reveals that negotiating the competitive landscape remains the top priority as opposed to the UK’s impending exit from the EU. Some...
Bristol-headquartered national law firm TLT is ramping up its transformation agenda with a Future Law initiative designed to drive change more rapidly in the way it delivers legal services and products to clients. The initiative will focus on developing new solutions to client challenges in areas such as...
Bristol law firm Barcan+Kirby has strengthened its team with the appointment of two trainee solicitors. Helen Young and Holly Mehigan are both taking their first seats at the firm in the litigation and conveyancing departments respectively. Helen is new to the firm and joins with a first-class degree from...
Bristol and London law firm Temple Bright has received a flood of instructions on construction projects for existing and new schools clients across the UK. Bristol-based construction partner Julia Davenport-Cooper, pictured, who joined the firm in 2016, described a series of new appointments in the sector as evidence of...
Business West, the region’s largest business support group, has launched a free up-to-the minute advice and guidance service to help firms get ready for life after Brexit. Called Trading Through Brexit, it aims to help businesses start planning for the period up to and after the UK leaves the...
A trade mark registration gives its proprietor a measure of control over how third parties can describe their wares. In the case of an identical mark used on identical goods and services, it’s a reasonably straightforward proposition. But, as the marks and their respective goods/service begin to differ, you...
International law firm Osborne Clarke – which employs more than 500 people in its Bristol office – has re-elected Ray Berg unopposed for a second four-year term as UK managing partner. He will also continue to be a member of the firm’s international board. Ray, pictured, a corporate lawyer...
Bristol is to become a global ‘living exhibition’ for innovation in housing as a new festival gets under way and the mayors of more than 80 cities worldwide arrive for a major conference. The Bristol Housing Festival, which kicked off today in Waterfront Square near Millennium Square, brings together manufacturers,...
Bristol-headquartered national law firm TLT has boosted its position in the Scottish legal market with the takeover of a specialist commercial real estate firm. TLT’s acquisition of Glasgow-based Leslie Wolfson & Co will also bolster its 200-plus real estate team as it has experience of advising clients in England...
Welsh business advisory firm Greenaway Scott has opened an office in Bristol city centre as its sets its sights on expanding its offering across the South West. The specialist law firm, which is focused on fast-growth clients and mergers and acquisitions, has launched the office at Temple Quay –...
More than 50 staff at national law firm TLT abseiled down the side of its iconic 15 storey One Redcliff Street headquarters building in a fundraiser for Children’s Hospice South West, the firm’s charity of the year. Staff are aiming to raise more than £7,000 as part of a...
Osborne Clarke was named Large Law Firm of the Year and Kelcey & Hall Firm of the Year with up to 15 Partners at the Bristol Law Society annual awards dinner last night. Osborne Clarke employment lawyer Phillip Chivers made it a double for his firm by landing the...
The Festival of Female Entrepreneurs is staged in Bristol next week for its seventh year to once again support women to build and grow sustainable businesses. Hundreds of women self-starters are expected to attend the day-long event on Friday, October 19, to hear, learn from and be inspired by...
