Firms throughout the Midlands should welcome moves to halve the 90-day consultation period for redundancies involving 100 or more employees, says a leading regional lawyer.Read
“The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers,” Shakespeare once wrote. A little drastic perhaps, but many people have considered that the Bard had a point.Read
Regulators have been accused of “destroying” long-established Midland law firm Blakemores and throwing around 250 employees out of work with “farcical” haste.Read
Blakemores – one of Birmingham’s best-known law firms – has closed after more than 50 years with the feared loss of up to 200 jobs following a major cash crisis.Read
A Birmingham law firm's contract dispute with the Legal Services Commission - in which it claimed to be a victim of computer hacking - has lead to a judicial review.Read
National business law firm DWF has announced its intention to acquire Cobbetts, just 24 hours after the troubled company called in the administrators.Read
A Birmingham solicitor has called for banks to act swiftly in the wake of the Financial Services Authority’s review of complex products sold to small businesses, which found more than 90 per cent had been mis-sold.Read
According to a poll of 2,000 managing directors, 56 per cent of small and medium-sized enterprises have concerns over HR issues and their ability to handle them effectively.
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Lord Hunt of Kings Heath, the patron of Birmingham Law Centre, which faces closure unless last ditch funding can be found, has warned it would be “a tragedy” for the city if it were to close.Read
