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A Bill recently passed in the Senate will introduce important changes to the Employment Act 2000 (“the Act”), Bermuda’s key piece of employment legislation, with effect from June 1. The changes are part of Government’s intended modernisation of labou...

A Bermudian woman has been admitted as a solicitor in England and Wales. Hannah Keane graduated from the University of Portsmouth with a Bachelor of Laws degree. She later studied at the BPP College of Law, where she completed her bar exams and was a...

Two lawyers in the Bermuda office of international law firm Carey Olsen have been recognised in the 2020/21 edition of Legal Week's Private Client Global Elite Directory. Bermuda partner Keith Robinson, who leads the firm's trusts and private wealth ...

Law firm Conyers has launched an essay competition in honour of Black History Month, which is celebrated annually in February. The firm invites middle and senior school students, grades 8-11, to submit an essay of 1,500 words discussing the contribut...

Law firm Walkers Bermuda, which is celebrating its fifth anniversary on the island, said it is bullish about Bermuda’s future prospects. It also believes that Britain’s separation from the European Union, after lengthy negotiations that concluded las...

Bermudian Ojeda Smith has joined law firm Wakefield Quin as a pupil. Ms Smith previously worked at the firm in 2018 and 2019 as a summer student, and is a two-time recipient of the firm’s legal scholarship award. She will work across all of its pract...

The Bermuda Bar has welcomed its first new lawyer of the year. Chelsea Rodrigues, 23, was Called to the Bar last Friday during a ceremony in front of her family and professional colleagues. Ms Rodrigues said that she felt like “a weight has been lift...

Walkers Bermuda will host its eighth webinar on the topic of the jurisdiction's Personal Information Protection Act 2016 on Tuesday at 12.30pm, with a focus on health and medicine. The hour-long webinar coincides with Data Privacy Week and will be h...

A prominent re/insurance lawyer who cofounded the law practice Attride-Stirling & Woloniecki, which is now known as ASW Law Limited, has died at 61. Tributes have been paid to Jan Woloniecki, who was head of litigation at the firm. He gained internat...

Almost $75,000 was paid to a private law firm last year by the Ombudsman’s office to deal with a dispute with a fired senior employee. The sum was revealed in a notice published by the Ombudsman in the Official Gazette, which listed total spending of...

Law firm Walkers (Bermuda) Limited has celebrated the five year anniversary of its Bermudian operations in Hamilton. It opened its doors on January 4, 2016 as Taylors in association with Walkers and offered a full service commercial practice. Within...

A barrister said he was stunned to be told on Christmas Eve he had been rejected for jobs as a Legal Aid lawyer – after two years’ work as a consultant with the office. Paul Wilson added that two applications he submitted to become a permanent staff ...