Cuts in legal aid for divorce cases has resulted in a big increase in demand for specialist family mediation services at Bath and Wiltshire law firm Stone King. Its family law and mediation team in Melksham has received a 25% rise in inquiries from separating couples seeking to resolve their differences without going to...
Staff at the Bath offices of law firm Withy King have raised £12,144.25 for Children’s Hospice South West with a wide range of fund-raising activities. These included a 180-mile staff cycle-ride from Children’s Hospice South West, based in Bristol, to Helen and Douglas House in Oxford, a Santa Fun Run around Bath, the Bath...
More than a quarter of West law firms are at risk of failure in the next 12 months, according to an alarming new report. But the research by R3, the insolvency trade body, shows that the West’s expected failure rate of 28% over the next year is lower than the national average of 31%....
Bath commercial solicitors’ chambers Rubric has taken on commercial lawyer Candace Kendall. Candace, pictured, brings heavyweight commercial expertise and substantial experience to the fast-growing firm having advised a wide range of commercial clients. She worked at City firms DJ Freeman and DLA before spending 14 years in senior in-house counsel roles at international financial...
Former Bath law firm partner Yvette Morcombe has been appointed by specialist property practice Hoffman Male to head its newly-opened Bristol office. Yvette, pictured, a conveyancing solicitor with more than 20 years’ experience, worked at Mowbray Woodwards in Bath between 2006 and 2008. She has also worked as an in-house property lawyer at McLean...
A successful annual event sponsored by Bath law firm Stone King offering free advice to older people and their families is being moved to a larger venue. The 4th Bath Later Life Show on June 21 will be the biggest yet and showcase the wide range of specialist services available across Bath and North...
Thomas Sheppard, managing partner at Bath-based law firm Thrings, is to move to the newly-created role of executive chairman. Simon Holdsworth, head of the firm’s company commercial team, is to take over as managing partner. As part of the changes Thomas will lead the transformation of the firm’s personal injury (PI) practice into a...
Staff at law firm Stone King, which has offices in Bath and Melksham, have been busy raising funds for a charity which cares for children and teenagers with life-limiting conditions. Employees have taken part in a number of physical challenges during the last year to raise more than £6,000 for Shooting Star CHASE which...
Why are public sector logos (and, by extension, their brands), so awful? The latest Brand Soup blog compares the likes of the Government’s Gangmasters Licensing Authority, Vehicle and Operator Services Agency and Health & Safety Executive with private firms’ logos – and finds them sadly lacking. What should the pen pushers in Whitehall –...
Bath law firm Stone King has appointed experienced lawyers Amanda Watts and Jo Boyle to its growing residential property team. Amanda, pictured, right, with Stone King’s managing partner Steven Greenwood, joins the firm, which also has offices in Melksham, Cambridge and London, from Hertfordshire legal practice Nockolds where she was a partner in its...
