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Clerks Room Oct09 Clerks Room Oct09 ISSUE 95 - OCTOBER 2009 HEALTH WARNING: This magazine contains comments that may disturb the bar PAGE 11 PAGE 15 PAGE 20 & 22 PAGE 28 Talking Silk Suspense Sport Wine Circulated FREE to Barristers’ Clerks in the United Kingdom WWW.CLERKSROOM.COM/MAGAZINE EDITOR’S PAGE Welcome to the October edition. The clocks have gone back but it feels too warm for winter yet. This time last year we had snow! There is plenty of sport. Check out the advert for the IBC Pool Competition on the 3rd December at Riley Snooker Club Victoria. First prize is £125. Not bad for a couple of hours work! We have reports on golf and tennis, and I would just like to remind all Manchester United fans that the bragging rights remain at Anfield yet again. We are trying to cater for junior clerks more and if there are any topics of Bob Moss interest [beyond the suspenders story], please email me. And yes ladies, there should have more female interests, and I keep asking for ADVERTISING ENQUIRIES TO: contributions but you are silent. I have said in the past I would even pay [email protected] for a good story / article. EDITORIAL ENQUIRIES TO: The Bar Council has appointed the team for 2010 to run the affairs of the [email protected] Bar, and Chambers had their awards ceremony at the beginning of the month. The winners of the Law Society excellence awards have recently This edition of the Clerksroom been announced. Magazine has been kindly supported by the following companies: Around 500 firms of solicitors have been having a very difficult month when their insurance cover ran out on the 1st of October 2009 and they Advantage Office Supply Systems Ltd had not been offered renewal terms. Premiums have rocketed even for Unit 10, Poole Hall Industrial Estate, Ellesmere Port, Cheshire CH66 1ST. those offered terms, but some have simply closed their doors rather than T: 0151 357 3500 pay high premiums. Those who have gone into the special pool of firms F: 0151 356 3459 with no offer of cover can expect to pay 27.5% of fee income as E: [email protected] premium. One North-West firm with 190 years of history and staff of 90 is now in administration. Corner House Design & Print Ltd The Old Chapel, Manchester Road, Many firms now pay their premiums monthly as cash flow does not allow Carrington Village, them to pay a single premium. The knock on effect may be to delay if Manchester M31 4BL T: 0161 777 6000 necessary payment of disbursements such as counsel’s fees. If you take a F: 0161 777 6060 look at the aged debt collectively owed by some of your clients you may E: [email protected] see the magnitude of the “overdraft facility” your members are providing. May be chambers should take a leaf out of the banking book and charge Clerksroom Magazine is produced under licence by JAR Holdings Limited, 9 Old Coach Road, escalating penalty rates of interest and £35 each time you write to a Kelsall, Cheshire CW6 0QL. 07734 995 902 solicitor to tell him he has not paid. Cover photograph is Matthew McCabe, Junior Clerk at Blackstone Chambers which won “Set of the Year” at the Chambers Awards. 1 OCTOBER 2009 ~ ISSUE 95 ARTICLE ”What Makes A Clerk Tick?” winterbreaks Blackstone Chambers won the “Set of the year” award at the Chambers Bar Awards held on the 1st Whether you are looking for a weekend away October 2009. The following day I took some money [just a small sum but it was the winning that mattered!] off Michael Couser, their deputy senior clerk, on the Addington Golf course. So it seemed with friends, a bonding session with your clerks’ fair to get his chambers involved. A few weeks before I had bumped into their junior clerk Matthew McCabe in the Strand and could not resist a photo of a young man at work. Junior team leader is Stuart room or just a romantic winter break for two, Thom and he volunteered to take part. putting it together on a realistic budget can be Blackstone was described at the Legal Business Awards 2009 as “a role model for chambers management”. difficult. What has been your worst moment in Chambers? Staying until 11pm creating an authorities bundle to be http://www.houblon-inn.co.uk lodged in the Supreme Court the following day Who has been the greatest influence on your http://www.honeysucklecottage-foxdale.co.uk career? Outside of Clerking it would be my Father. The drive and determination he has showed to achieve what he has is http://www.ancasterkarting.co.uk something I hope to emulate. Clerking wise, it would be the fantastic team of Clerks I work with that continue to shape my career on a daily basis. What irritates you the most? When people do not take pride in their job. What is the best aspect of the job? Learning new skills and that every day is different. What is the worst aspect of the job? When did you start working in Chambers and in Tracking down obscure authorities what capacity? 2½ years ago as the most junior of four Junior Clerks. What is your best characteristic, clerking or otherwise? Why did you become a clerk? Attention to detail and an endless amount of patience. I had a work experience placement whilst I was at school at 3 Temple Gardens, I really enjoyed my time Do you have any bad habits? there and have never looked back… Singing in Clerks room (If you’ve had the misfortune of hearing my voice you would understand why…) So far what has been your best moment in Chambers? Meeting Joe Calzaghe. 2 Continued on page 4... OCTOBER 2009 ~ ISSUE 95 ARTICLE ...continued from page 2 Manchester’s Administrative Court Opened in January 2009 London set 39 Essex Street launched a Manchester branch in June 2009. Chambers director Michael Meeson: “Manchester is a hive of activity.” [The Lawyer] Doughty Street Chambers opened in August 2009 in Manchester. Chambers director Robin Jackson: “Manchester is a strategically important site.” [The Lawyer] Can we help? Our facilities are: Designed for: We also offer: • Non-branded • Meeting & Trial • Copying Printing offices Preparation faxing & Wi-Fi Your favourite film? If you were stranded on a desert island, what 2 • At the heart of Rooms • Hot desking or a Superbad/Green Mile items would you take with you? Manchester’s • Video Conference quiet corner Both Volumes of The White Book and a Fishing Rod. legal community Suite facility • DX exchange in What car do you drive? [Editor: Sings and witty. He’ll go far.] • Located just off • Seminar, Training the building For the moment it’s the two wheeled variety of a Deansgate & Lecture rooms • As much tea & Trolley If you had not gone into clerking, what would • Newly refurbished • Mediation, coffee as you you have become? What’s on your iPod? I would most probably have gone into my Uncle’s to a high Arbitration need! Currently it is Cream Anthems – Ibiza 2009 line of work which is Plumbing. standard • Membership for individuals and How do you relax? So what does make a clerk tick? chambers If Chitty on Contracts is not available to read I will I believe that two key points that make a Clerk tick spend my time relaxing with my friends. are: Contact our Regional Manager: Bob Moss Hunger for Progression What event anywhere in the world would you Playing a part in helping Chambers success and T: 0161 839 1002 most like to witness? growth 64 Bridge Street: Manchester Legal Centre England winning the World Cup in South Africa 64 Bridge Street, Manchester M3 3BN T: 0161 839 1002 F: 0161 819 5205 Name one person you would like to have dinner with and why. DX: 14349 Manchester E: [email protected] Cheryl Cole (I think the reason is obvious) www.64bridgestreet.com 4 Serving the legal community in Manchester OCTOBER 2009 ~ ISSUE 95 “the second legal city” ARTICLE Second Class Citizens? By The Editor I had been talking to a few of the senior clerks at the Addington Golf day about their thoughts for the future. It is perhaps no good waiting for the new government of whatever political shade to scrap the plans for ABS structures. The following week I read with interest the Lawyer’s had to think about their own practice and chambers on article on Lovells in merger talks with Hogan. It read: a global strategic level. The whole ethos is the sole practitioner looking after his or her clients interests. “For years, Lovells' US practice has been characterised by its low-key, softly-softly strategy. That might all be So with the arrival of a new playing field called ABSs, about to change, and pretty dramatically too. The firm and the opportunity to play that game on a global is in merger talks with Hogan & Hartson, a $922.5m scale, you could argue that the Bar is light years behind firm. A deal would catapult Lovells into the top 10 of solicitors in experience. Counsel are not and never have the world's largest law firms. been sat at the decision making table when the legal Has your firm spoken to advantage yet about joining one of the profession is being mapped out for the future. Legal Buying Groups and massively reducing your office supplies Both firms' relatively healthy financials suggest that this overhead? would not be primarily a defensive merger but one This may prove to be a serious disadvantage.
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