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Ince Group saved as law firm Axiom DWFM steps in with rescue deal

  • June 2, 2023
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Ince Group has been acquired out of administration by UK law group Axiom DWFM, which has agreed to buy the insolvent firm’s legal business and associated assets.

But this time around, Ince’s partners will drive the direction of the business.

Ince & Co, as the successor entity will be known, will continue to operate separately from Axiom DWFM and will be managed independently as a separately branded legal services business, Ince said on Friday.

It said the transaction will allow its partner group “to refocus the firm’s growth strategy on its core legal services, whilst also improving operations and support structures”.

Donald Brown, chief executive of Ince & Co, said the acquisition will give “a simple and clear corporate and capital structure under professional, knowledgeable and robust ownership”.

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“We are underpinned by a group of immensely talented lawyers with deep expertise in our key sectors,” he said.

“After taking over the management of the [publicly listed] group, it quickly became apparent that we needed to address a series of poorly structured and executed transactions and expansions.”

Managing partner Jennette Newman said Ince & Co is “committed to reinforcing the firm’s reputation of providing complex legal services to corporate, commercial and high-net-worth clients in our core sectors”.

Axiom DWFM is a full-service legal practice with a network of UK offices. Its managing partner, Pragnesh Modhwadia, who is a practising solicitor, said it has confidence in the Ince & Co business and its lawyers.

“When the opportunity came to acquire a business of the calibre of Ince & Co, we were eager to engage and are delighted that the Ince & Co team shared our enthusiasm,” he said.

“We believe we have a great relationship already and a great opportunity together.”

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Author John Grisham on ‘Talk Justice’ podcast about the importance of legal aid

  • June 2, 2023

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Legal Services Corporation President Ron Flagg introduced Grisham’s speech, which was recorded at a recent LSC forum on access to justice.

Grisham serves on LSC’s Leaders Council, which works to raise public awareness of the current crisis in civil justice. He is also a prominent advocate for criminal justice reform, frequently speaking publicly about wrongful conviction and serving on the board of directors for both the Innocence Project and Centurion Ministries.

“I have a long affinity with legal aid,” Grisham said. “It goes back to when I finished law school at Ole Miss some 42 years ago. I inadvertently became a legal aid lawyer.”

Grisham was struggling to build up clientele in his own law firm after law school when a woman in tears found his office and asked for his help in court that day. She was going to be evicted from her mobile home, and she told Grisham about the years of effort she put in to keep it up, only to have it all taken away. He went with her to court and ended up representing several of her neighbors in the trailer park. He got all of their evictions dismissed and became the community’s go-to pro bono attorney.

“That case proved to me the power of a license to practice law when it’s used to help people,” said Grisham. “It’s astonishing what happens when you’re a lawyer and you take

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8.79 lakh people received govt’s legal aid since 2009

  • May 26, 2023

8.79 lakh people received govt’s legal aid since 2009

DHAKA, April 27, 2023 (BSS) – As part of the present government’s commitment to provide justice for all, it is providing free legal aid from 2009 through the National Legal Aid Services Organization (NLASO) and so far 8,79,929 people received its services.

“Apart from these, NLASO provided free legal advice to 3, 53, 656 people in this period,” Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Anisul Huq told BSS on the eve of National Legal Aid Services Day, to be observed tomorrow.

The law minister further said the then Awami League government led by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina formulated Legal Aid Services Act, 2000, and formed NLASO to provide legal assistance to the people who are financially insolvent, penniless or unable to get justice because of various socio- economic reasons.

“But the issue of providing legal aid remained neglected from 2001 to 2008. After Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina formed government for the second time in 2009, implementation of that act gained momentum,” he added.

Narrating the achievements of NLASO to BSS, Law Ministry spokesperson Dr Md Rezaul Karim said the organization managed to realize Taka 134.90 crore as compensation for the victim parties and resolved a total of 82, 588 cases or disputes through alternative dispute resolution (ADR) from 2009 to March, 2023.

“The NLASO, through its 64 district legal aid offices, provided legal services to 4, 50, 067 people, of which 1, 05, 650 received the services in prisons. A total of 1, 53,413 people were given free legal aid though toll -free national helpline ‘16430’ since its launching in 2016,” the law ministry official added.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on the National Legal Aid Day on April 28, 2016, launched the service and it became more and more popular with

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Top lawyers should provide the needy free legal aid: Rijiju

  • May 24, 2023

Itanagar, April 23 (UNI) Union Law and Justice Minister Kiren Rijiju on Sunday urged the top lawyers to provide free legal aid to the needy people who cannot afford to pay a lawyer.
The Union Minister was addressing a gathering including members of legal fraternity in a function at Jarbom Gamlin Govt Law College (JGGLC) at Jote in Arunachal Pradesh’s Papum Pare district after inaugurating a Mega Legal Services Camp and Seva Aapke Dwar 2.0 program at the college campus, according to official sources.
During the program, Rijiju also inaugurated a Pro Bono Club at JGGLC, Jote. While laying the foundation stones for three projects namely, construction of court building for Judicial Magistrate First Class at Namsai, court building for District & Sessions Judge at Khonsa and court building for Judicial Magistrate at Bomdila, he congratulated the people of these three districts and promised to take responsibility for the construction of all the courts in Arunachal Pradesh.
On occasion, Rijiju lauded the judges of the district courts of Arunachal Pradesh for efficient and timely delivery of justice, thereby resolving many pending cases.
He called JGGLC a state property and said “it being the premier law institute of Arunachal is our pride and we need to put concerted efforts for its overall development”.
In his speech, Advisor to State’s Law & Justice Minister cum MLA Kento Jini said that the motto of the Pro Bono Club is to instill in the minds of young lawyers the sense of responsibility of community services in the legal field.
He exhorted the students of the Law College to volunteer as ‘Nyay Bandhu’ in the Club to provide free legal aid to the poor and weaker sections of society.
During the day-long programme, organized by Arunachal Pradesh State Legal Services Authority (APSLSA) in collaboration with

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Law firm Fox Rothschild shakes up top leadership

  • February 22, 2023

(Reuters) – U.S. law firm Fox Rothschild said Monday that Todd Rodriguez, a longterm leader of the firm’s healthcare group, will take over as firmwide managing partner effective April 1.

Rodriguez succeeds Mark Morris, a real estate lawyer who has served as the Philadelphia-founded firm’s managing partner since 2017. Morris will become chair, replacing current chair Mark Silow.

Rodriguez, who has served as co-chair of the firm’s healthcare department since 2008, said Silow and Morris have built a “very healthy and robust firm” with a diversity of people and practice areas, and he views his charge as “continuing that legacy.”

The new leaders step into the roles for three-year terms.

Fox had about 200 lawyers located regionally when Silow became managing partner in 2005 and has since grown to 1,000 lawyers in 29 offices nationally, the firm said.

The firm has expanded over the years in part through a series of mergers with much smaller law firms in different markets. It has also opened new offices in recent years with hires and attorney relocations, including most recently in Boston, Oklahoma City and Kansas City, Missouri.

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Rodriguez declined to share specific details about the firm‘s 2022 financial results. The firm generated $650 million gross revenue in 2021, according to figures reported by The American Lawyer.

He did say that like many of Fox’s peer law firms, the firm is “coming off of two very successful years financially [2020 and 2021], and I recognize that repeating that level of success will be challenging.”

He added that Fox is “uniquely situated to meet that challenge” due to its diversity of client offerings.

Revenues and profits at many large U.S. law firms hit new heights in 2021, due in part to a surge in corporate deal work.

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New York law firm Shearman & Sterling lays off lawyers and staff

  • February 10, 2023

  • Shearman has laid off 38 employees, including associates and business services professionals
  • Other law firms to reduce headcount include Davis Wright Tremaine, Goodwin and Cooley

(Reuters) – New York-founded law firm Shearman & Sterling said Wednesday it has laid off attorneys and business professionals, citing a need to “align our capacity levels with existing client demands.”

Shearman cut 12 associates and 26 business services professionals in the United States, in what a firm spokesperson described as a response to “continuing and growing economic headwinds and market conditions.”

The layoffs follow similar moves by a handful of other large U.S. law firms amid cooling client demand for legal services, especially for work involving corporate deals.

The cuts at Shearman, which has about 850 lawyers globally, “focused mainly on transactional practice areas most affected by current and projected market conditions,” the firm said.

Seattle-founded law firm Davis Wright Tremaine laid off 21 professional staff this week in areas the firm “either had excess capacity or redundancy and misalignment,” according to a Tuesday statement from its managing partner Scott MacCormack. The cuts there did not include any lawyers, a spokesperson said.

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Other law firms that have trimmed their lawyer and professional ranks in recent months also cited staffing levels that outmatched demand, including Goodwin Procter, Cooley and Stroock & Stroock & Lavan.

Law firms surveyed by Wells Fargo’s Legal Specialty Group reported a 1.9% drop in demand in 2022. Lawyer headcount was up 4.5% after firms kept on most of the attorneys they hired in 2021 and early 2022 to handle surging M&A work at the time, the report said.

Shearman has recently seen some partner exits to rival firms, including the departure this week of London-based lawyer Phil Cheveley, who was

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Telangana HC orders authorities to ensure kiln workers’ lives, legal services are in compliance with- The New Indian Express

  • August 22, 2022

By Express News Service

HYDERABAD: The Telangana High Court has ordered the Member Secretary of the Telangana State Legal Services Authority to coordinate with various government agencies to ensure working conditions for migrant workers in brick kilns are in compliance with the law.

Additionally, the court instructed the Registry to give a copy of this order to the Member Secretary of the Telangana State Legal Services Authority. In a suo moto taken up PIL relating to the circumstances of migrant laborers working in the State’s brick kilns, the High Court issued the directive. In the session held on December 21, 2015, migrant workers’ difficulties were discussed. The court ordered the Member Secretary of the Telangana State Legal Services Authority to ensure that migrant workers’ conditions in the brick kilns are in compliance with the law.

HYDERABAD: The Telangana High Court has ordered the Member Secretary of the Telangana State Legal Services Authority to coordinate with various government agencies to ensure working conditions for migrant workers in brick kilns are in compliance with the law. Additionally, the court instructed the Registry to give a copy of this order to the Member Secretary of the Telangana State Legal Services Authority. In a suo moto taken up PIL relating to the circumstances of migrant laborers working in the State’s brick kilns, the High Court issued the directive. In the session held on December 21, 2015, migrant workers’ difficulties were discussed. The court ordered the Member Secretary of the Telangana State Legal Services Authority to ensure that migrant workers‘ conditions in the brick kilns are in compliance with the law.

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