How to increase the effectiveness of your lasting power of attorney
Private wealth
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Lasting powers of attorney (LPAs) are vitally important documents: they give someone power to make decisions about your financial affairs, or to make decisions in relation to your personal welfare, after you lose capacity.
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How to safeguard business assets, including employees, clients and contracts
Commercial litigation and disputes
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As a business leader, your clients, relationships, and confidential business secrets are your crown jewels. You must handle them with the utmost care or risk your business’s success. If you don’t you might end up gifting your hard work and talent to your nearest competitor.
Written by
John Flint
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Our inheritance tax specialists examine the inheritance tax bills some families may face if their loved one died without a Will. Contact an IHT solicitor on 0800 652 8025 for a free initial consultation. Offices in Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, London, Manchester, Southampton & Taunton.
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It’s not just a load of ‘Wagatha’ – What directors can learn from celebrity defamation cases
Civil dispute resolution
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If the ‘Wagatha’ carousel has any lessons for directors in particular, it’s that protecting commercial reputations requires skilled litigators to navigate high-profile cases.
Written by
John Flint
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We are looking for a Legal Cashier to join our Finance Team. Working as part of a team of 8 to maintain accurate and timely financial ledgers by providing compliant and effective cashiering duties in a professional, friendly and helpful manner.
Reporting to the Legal Cashier Manager, the team Supervisor will assist and support the Accounts Manager with the general supervision of the cashier’s team on a day-to-day basis. In addition, the role will maintain cashiering duties within the team work, ensuring accurate and timely financial ledgers by providing compliant and effective cashiering duties in a professional, friendly and helpful manner
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With over twenty years of experience acting on behalf of survivors of life changing injuries, partner Phil Edwards specialises in amputation and loss of limb compensation claims.
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Philip Edwards
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Many consider that inheritances ought to be ring-fenced on divorce for the party to whom it has been left but the law is not that straightforward. However, there are steps which can be taken to minimise the risk of inherited assets being “invaded” in the event of a divorce.
