Why are public sector logos (and, by extension, their brands), so awful? The latest Brand Soup blog compares the likes of the Government’s Gangmasters Licensing Authority, Vehicle and Operator Services Agency and Health & Safety Executive with private firms’ logos – and finds them sadly lacking. What should the pen pushers in Whitehall –...
Bath law firm Stone King has appointed experienced lawyers Amanda Watts and Jo Boyle to its growing residential property team. Amanda, pictured, right, with Stone King’s managing partner Steven Greenwood, joins the firm, which also has offices in Melksham, Cambridge and London, from Hertfordshire legal practice Nockolds where she was a partner in its...
Thrings, the M4 corridor law firm with a major office in Bath, has recruited Jane Oakland as a partner in its corporate team. Jane joins from the Bristol office of rival Clarke Willmott, where she was a corporate partner. She brings more than 20 years’ corporate experience in acquisition and disposal, strategic planning, reorganisation,...
You can’t get a better illustration (forgive the pun) of the power of a brand than the recent abortive sale in Miami of a Banksy which had last been seen attached to the wall of a north London Poundland. Setting aside the furore over who actually owns the work and who has the right...
Two solicitors at Bath law firm Withy King will team up with some of the city’s best-known rugby players to cycle 963 miles in nine days to help improve the prospects for disadvantaged young people. Commercial property partner Paul Daniels and cycling law solicitor Mark Hambleton will join Bath Rugby’s David Flatman, Andy Beattie,...
More couples are starting their own businesses together, often ploughing in redundancy pay-outs. But what happens if the love fades? Bath Business News Expert Panel member Rebecca Silcock from Bath-based Mogers solicitors explains. Since the recession started we have seen a growth in the number of start-up businesses with couples working for themselves. Frequently...
Two family law experts from Bath have become the first in the city to qualify as family arbitrators. John Brownrigg and Jon Toogood, partners at Bath law firms Stone King and Withy King respectively, will become members of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and two of a select band of 75 family arbitrators nationwide....
Bath law firm Stone King has appointed Rod Smith as a partner in its expanding trusts and estates team. Rod, pictured, joins Stone King, which also has an office in Melksham, from London-based Bolt Burdon, where he was a partner and head of its wealth and estate planning team. He specialises in advising on...
West law firm Thrings has appointed five new partners including recruiting respected corporate lawyer Alex Pyatt from rivals Withy King. The appointments take the number of partners at the firm, which has an office in Bath, to more than 60. Alex, pictured, by the Chambers UK 2013 legal guide as “commercial, pragmatic and sensible”...
The latest developments in employment relations will come under the spotlight at a major conference for West businesses staged by Acas, Britain’s top employment relations service. The event, called The Changing Face of Employment Relations, will tackle the issues that every company needs to be aware of including, how to make flexible working work...
