Second firm faces miners tribunal

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LAWYER NEWS DAILY - 06/01/2009
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Second firm faces miners tribunal
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The fallout from the miners' compensation scheme is becoming major,
with the Solicitors Regulation Authority today accusing six Raleys
Solicitors partners of scamming the scheme.

The firm had 29,000 miners as clients, not all of whom are happy.

The move comes just a month after the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal
struck off Beresfords Solicitors partner Jim Beresford for milking payments
to sick miners under the Government's British Coal compensation scheme Which
is probably the reason a row has broken out over John Mann MP's opinion
piece in this week's edition of The Lawyer which argues it's high time
lawyers coughed up for their mistakes. See story and join the debate:
http://www.thelawyer.com/cgi-bin/item.cgi?id=136083
http://www.thelawyer.com/cgi-bin/item.cgi?id=136157

Still, miners compensation lawyers aren't the only ones to have
behaved badly.

As TheLawyer.com's Tulkinghorn reports today, a former Dickson Minto
partner has been fined GBP300 for exposing himself at a posh restaurant
in Scotland. See story:
http://www.thelawyer.com/cgi-bin/item.cgi?id=136184

Takes all sorts to make a profession, eh?

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Phillip Anderson won't be the only uncomfortable lawyer this year, as
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grip on M&A; how US firms are divided on partner promotions; the top
litigation battles of 2009, and is Davenport Lyons' internet piracy
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