Birmingham law firm Anthony Collins has cut about 20 jobs from its city centre base, after becoming what could be one of the last victims of last year’s ‘white-collar recession’.Read
Lawyers from a West Midland practice will continue to fight for a farmer who secretly built and lived in a castle to keep his home despite losing a High Court bid to save it from demolition.Read
Birmingham solicitors have stepped in to help clients after the closure of a bulk conveyancing firm which dealt with a large number of clients in the city.Read
The festive season went with a swing in the Dowling household. One of my uncles particularly enjoyed the jokes and conundrums which erupted from the Christmas crackers he provided.Read
Lawyers at Wragge & Co have advised Birmingham City University on the outsourcing of work for its new £8 million sports centre to international service company Serco.Read
A team from West Midlands law firm FBC Manby Bowdler has advised on a deal for a local retail chain to buy more than a dozen off-licences from the collapsed First Quench group.Read
Worcester Royal Hospital has been ordered to pay a six-figure sum to the family of a man who died in its care, after a compensation case led by Midlands law firm Challinors.Read
The Law Society has warned that the criminal justice system will be pushed to breaking point by Alistair Darling’s plans to cut £360m from the budget.Read
One of Birmingham’s largest criminal law firms has criticised the Crown Prosecution Service after a case lasting nearly a year and costing £2 million was dismissed by the jury in less than two hours.Read
A barrister at No5 Chambers in Birmingham has been selected to sit as a recorder on the Midland Circuit, taking the total of part-time judges of the Crown Court at the set to 25.Read
HBJ Gateley Wareing is hailing environmentally-friendly manufacturing as the way forward, after advising on a transatlantic electric vehicle deal hailed by US president Barack Obama.Read
Birmingham’s legal community is a vital cog in the city’s professional services sector machine. But recent events are proving just how important it could be to the city’s improving economic fortunes.Read
