Clarke Willmott ranked among UK’s top 100 law firms by The Lawyer
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National law firm Clarke Willmott LLP has been ranked 80th in The Lawyer’s UK 200 Top 100 for 2025, reinforcing its position as one of the leading law firms in the country.
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Clarke Willmott’s Birmingham office ranks highly in 2024 Legal 500
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The 2024 Legal 500 results have been announced and once again the Birmingham office of national law firm Clarke Willmott LLP has ranked highly with both practice areas and individual lawyers named.
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Clarke Willmott’s Manchester office improves on already impressive Legal 500 results for 2026
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The Manchester office of national law firm Clarke Willmott LLP has been ranked highly in this year’s Legal 500 guide, with numerous practice areas and individual lawyers being recognised.
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The Government has published the Commercial Rent (Coronavirus) Bill 2021 to implement the binding arbitration scheme announced on 18 June. The scheme is intended to resolve commercial rent debts which arose as a result of the coronavirus pandemic
The world’s media has become very interested in reports of a Chinese housewife receiving compensation on a divorce for ‘housework’ she did during the marriage. It certainly seems to be a positive, and some would say progressive, change for Chinese spouses.
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Cost of living crisis and the impact on service charge recoveries
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In February 2023, the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) voted that the bank interest rate would make its tenth increase over the past year by 0.5ppts to 4%, being the highest level in 15 years.
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Effective succession planning is a delicate balancing act involving both personal legacy and tax efficiency. Technical legal advice is therefore essential to achieving the very best outcome, but so too is wise counsel.
Intellectual property (IP) rights, especially those that are registered such as trade marks, registered design and patents, can act as useful deterrents to third parties seeking to take advantage of your intellectual and trading efforts. However, ultimately, any intellectual property right is only as good as your ability to enforce it.
A patent is a monopoly right which protects inventions. The key point about a monopoly right is that it protects the invention not merely against people who copy it, but those who independently devise or develop something falling within the scope of the patent’s claims. Patents can cover either processes or products.
Resolution conference brings hundreds of family lawyers to Birmingham
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Family law
Resolution’s annual national conference has taken place with over 400 family law professionals coming together to share best practice and champion a constructive way of resolving family law matters.
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Adam Maguire
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