South Africa
Routledge
Modise becomes Eversheds - 1 July
Commercial law firm Routledge Modise is practising as Eversheds in
SA from today. Last year, the firm joined international law firm
Eversheds on the African continent and started practising as
Routledge Modise in association with Eversheds. Now that the
association of the two brands had been established, the firm was
dropping the local name and moving to the Eversheds brand. - allAfrica
website
Fiji
Fiji
makes 355 lawyers legal - 1 July
Fijian authorities have issued 355 lawyers with licences to
continue practising, following new regulations introduced by the
interim government. The Legal Practitioners Decree was drawn up
after the cancelling of Fiji's constitution in April. Previously,
lawyers registered with the Fiji Law Society, which the Fijilive
website says issued 331 licences last year. - Australia
Network News website
United Kingdom
'Waste
of talent' claim as lawyers work in shops - 26 June
The Law Society fears solicitors left out of work by the property
market crash could end up "wasting their talent" by
taking jobs as shop assistants and burger-flippers. The society
said huge numbers had taken up its retraining programme in a bid
to avoid taking "inappropriate" work in the recession.
The aim is to direct the hundreds of out-of-work solicitors away
from the collapsed property law sector, into other legal fields. -
Herald website