Legal
Birketts advises construction consultancy firm Potter Raper on the establishment of an Employee Ownership Trust
Birketts advises construction consultancy firm Potter Raper Ltd on the sale of the business into an employee ownership trust (EOT), benefiting over 170 employees. ...
Birketts adds dedicated employment law trainer to strengthen shaping excellence training division
Birketts’ Employment Team expands with the arrival of Associate Solicitor and Employment Law Trainer, Jonathan Shevlane. ...
CIIPM continues its programme of virtual training courses with Commercial Patent Search & Analysis, taking place on 8-9 June.
This training course provides an overview of search and analysis techniques to prepare patent landscape reports for business decision making. Attendees will learn how to construct and perform business-focused patent searches and how to analyse the results to report on competitor patenti...
Is your organisation up to date on the changes to Right to Work checks?
This spring the rules around conducting right to work checks changed. If they are not carried out properly, any organisation could leave itself open to potentially hefty fines, or even a criminal offence, if it is found to be employing people unlawfully. ...
Experiencing Imposter Syndrome at work
What do you think are some of the common triggers for feeling like an imposter? Being in a minority? Whether that be gender, sexual orientation, ethnicity, disability or neuro-diversity? That's what research so far indicates. But there's another pattern appearing from my conversations. ...
We have a new website, who cares?
Greenwoods Legal LLP says: Standard procedure dictates that every few years a law firm changes its website so it looks more modern / works more effectively / or because we’re bored and it’s something to do. The site is released with great fanfare and backslapping and the world yawns. We...
Stone King announce a new Cambridge hire and promotion
The national law firm is delighted to welcome Anna Hyde to its Cambridge office as a Senior HR Consultant in the firm’s Employment team. ...