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unusual facts about solicitors



Alan Grieve

Alan Grieve joined the well established firm of Gray's Inn solicitors Taylor & Humbert in 1958 after gaining commercial, city and merger and acquisition experience as an assistant solicitor at Slaughter and May.

Andrew Hopper

Hopper advised Andrew Crossley of ACS:Law who was referred to the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal in relation to claims against people suspected of copyright infringement using peer-to-peer file sharing.

Brethertons

Brethertons Solicitors is one of the oldest firms of solicitors in Rugby and was founded by Count William Ferdinand Wratislaw in 1810, a Bohemian nobleman related to Good King Wenceslas.

Corporate Rescue and Insolvency Journal

Authors on the In Practice team include solicitors at Freshfields, Eversheds, Norton Rose, Dickinson Dees and offering an alternative view, the section also includes features by KPMG.

Eric Sachs

He led a team of barristers that collaborated with Sydney Littlewood and other solicitors from the Law Society in formulating the legal aid scheme created under the Legal Aid and Advice Act 1949.

Florida Solicitor General

It is a similar position to Solicitors in many states and is modeled after the United States Solicitor General.

Francis James Garrick

Both Garrick and his younger brother James Francis (born 10 January 1836) were sent to Sydney solicitors to learn the legal trade.

James Francis Garrick

Both Garrick and his older brother Francis James (born 1833) were sent to Sydney solicitors to learn the legal trade.

John Vassall

Vassall subsequently changed his surname to Phillips, and worked quietly as an administrator at the British Records Association, and for a firm of solicitors in Gray's Inn.

Judiciary Act 1903

Amongst other things, the Act regulates the exercise of the jurisdiction of the High Court of Australia, confers jurisdiction on the Federal Court of Australia, provides for the right of barristers and solicitors to practice in Federal courts, and establishes the Australian Government Solicitor.

Kenneth Geller

On December 8, 2009, Geller moderated a panel of former Solicitors General that took place in the Supreme Court building.

Ladbroke Estate

James Weller Ladbroke held the estate until his death in 1847, though the actual development of the land was carried out by a firm of City solicitors, Smith, Bayley (known as Bayley and Janson after 1836), working in conjunction with the architect, landscaper and surveyor Thomas Allason.

Law Society of Ireland

The Law Society was formally incorporated by royal charter obtained from Queen Victoria on 5 April 1852, under the name of "the Incorporated Society of Attorneys and Solicitors of Ireland".

Norman C. Stiles

He is one of seven directors of The United States Patent Association, which includes examiners of the Patent Office, solicitors of patents, and inventors.

Solicitor

Regulation of both barristers and solicitors was reviewed by David Clementi on behalf of the Ministry of Justice in 2004.

Solicitors Act 1974

The Solicitors Act 1974 (c 47) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom governing the regulation and responsibilities of practicing solicitors, and the firms for whom they work, as well as stipulating under what circumstances one can practise as a solicitor.

Tods Murray

The firm was based for over one hundred years on Edinburgh's Queen Street, a popular area for solicitors' firms, but moved in 2005 to the new Edinburgh Quay development in the city's regenerated Fountainbridge business district.


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