Month: May 2013
Legal Aid: an end to client choice?
24.05.13Legally aided clients will no longer be able to choose their solicitor if new Government proposals are brought in next year. Instead, the State will allocate you a lawyer – and tell you to lump it. Worse still, that lawyer will not be allocated because he or she is any good, but because his/her firm offered […]
Ranked in Legal 500 2012
23.05.13Shearman Bowen & Co is ranked amongst the top firms in London for both crime and white collar crime – 2012 edition, Legal 500 legal500
Chambers 2013: Top Ranked for Crime & Fraud
23.05.13“The firm is praised for its client care and conscientious case preparation” – Chambers Guide to the Legal Profession 2013 The 2013 edition of Chambers Guide was published today and Shearman Bowen & Co have once again maintained their high rankings for crime and fraud work. In the ‘Crime – London’ category, the firm is once again ranked in […]
Legal aid lawyers fight to save justice
22.05.13Today saw an historic protest outside Parliament by hundreds of lawyers against the MOJ’s Price-Competitive Tendering Proposals. Later some 1,200 attended a sold-out meeting at Friends Meeting House in Euston where a vote was carried for a series of days of action.