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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 ...

A defence lawyer failed to appear at a trial due to start yesterday because his practising certificate was not renewed in time. Charles Richardson should have represented a 35-year-old man accused of attempted sexual assault at a trial in Magistrat...

After success with a consulting company, Kastleway Group is taking another step forward by opening a registered law firm and recruiting a Bermudian attorney. Monika Adams launched Kastleway Compliance to give businesses the ability to hire a consulta...

International law firm Kennedys is calling for applications from Bermudian law students for two-year solicitor training contracts at its London office. Partner Mark Chudleigh said a place is being offered for entry next September, and another spot is...

Law firm Phoenix Law Chambers has had its corporate service business provider licence revoked by the Bermuda Monetary Authority. The BMA said it had done this due to breaches of the Corporate Service Business Provider Act 2012 in three key areas. It ...