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YouTube stars coming to the fore in branded content
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08 August 2013In an article for Marketing Week, Philip Hughes discusses how brands working with video stars are now benefiting from the lack of focus from regulators in the vlogger and user-generated content areas.
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What are zero-hours contracts?
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05 August 2013In a BBC article, Michael Burd discusses the benefits of zero-hour contracts and why employers choose to use them.
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#acknowledge: advertising compliance on social media
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26 June 2013In an article for Law In Sport, Alex Kelham discusses various celebrity tweets which have fallen foul of advertising compliance codes and laws. Alex suggests that in order to avoid the indignation of ASA complaints, perhaps the answer is for agencies to do what they do best - get creative.
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Why you should avoid the distractions of the annual financial reporting round
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26 June 2013In an article for Managing Partner, Ian Jeffery discusses the first sets of annual results coming out of the UK's leading law firms for the financial year 11/12 and how prominence is often given to short term measures, such as profit per equity partner (PEP).
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Employer issues with LinkedIn: Stemming the tide
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26 June 2013In an article for PLC Magazine, Ellen Temperton discusses the issues that employers may face when its employees use professional networking sites, such as LinkedIn.
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100 Years of Employment Law
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18 June 2013Richard Lister wrote an article for the Impact magazine to mark the centenary of the CIPD, taking a look back at how UK employment law has evolved over the past 100 years.
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Bankers' bonuses: Curbing excess
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14 June 2013In an article written for PLC Magazine, Colin Leckey, Victoria Goode and Ailsa Murdoch discuss a recent ruling that investment bank Dresdner Kleinwort must uphold a promise made at the height of the financial crisis to guarantee a minimum €400 million bonus pool to a group of bankers at its London office.
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Bring your own device: Responding to the trend
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14 June 2013In an article for PLC Magazine, Ellen Temperton discusses the 'Bring your own device' (BYOD) trend, how employers should respond to it, and how it could have potentially damaging implications.
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E-cigarette brands prepare to emphasise quality message
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14 June 2013In an article for Marketing Week, Lewis Silkin discusses how, from 2016, the current type of ads in the UK which arguably market e-cigarettes in a glamourised manner will cease to exist.
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City A.M. covers appointment of new partner Adam Glass
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12 June 2013New Media, Brands and Technology partner Adam Glass' appointment has been covered in this morning's edition of City A.M.'s 'Who's switching jobs' section.
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US employment law firm FordHarrison joins Ius Laboris, Global HR law Alliance
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12 June 2013Ius Laboris, the world’s largest alliance of Human Resources law firms (of which Lewis Silkin is the UK member) announced that U.S. employment law firm FordHarrison LLP has joined the Alliance.
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Delay: you cannot be serious!
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11 June 2013In an article written for PLC Construction, James Levy discusses the frequent occurrence of delays in construction projects. As this affects the timescale of the project, it gives rise to the right to terminate.
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Leading IP and media lawyer joins Media, Brands and Technology team
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10 June 2013City law firm Lewis Silkin today announces the appointment of Adam Glass as partner in the firm’s renowned Media, Brands and Technology (MBT) team. He joins Lewis Silkin from Davenport Lyons, where he was a partner and head of litigation and IP.
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Association of Partnership Practitioners AGM
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28 May 2013Fergus Payne, Joint Head of our Partnerships and LLP team, recently spoke at the APP (Association of Partnership Practitioners) AGM. A synopsis of his pre-dinner speech was included in the most recent APP newsletter and is available to read in this article.
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Flexible working - the backlash
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23 May 2013In a Financial Times article, Russell Brimelow discusses Flexible Working and how often some employers don’t realise they have health and safety obligations if staff are working from home. Not only does technology need to be safe, but the working environment needs to be as risk-free as practicable too.
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How To: sever a partnership
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20 May 2013In a Law Society Gazette article, Fergus Payne stresses the importance of studying the partnership or members’ agreement when looking to sever a partnership.
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LLPs to face NI contribution hike in move to clamp down on taxing self-employed staff
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17 May 2013Commenting in a Legal Week article, Clive Greenwood talks about the need for clarification surrounding the definition of Limited Liability Partnerships (LLPs) when discussing the National Insurance Contributions Bill. The Bill, which was formally announced in the Queen's Speech on 8 May, would remove the presumption of self-employment for LLP members from April 2014.
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Big yourself up
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17 May 2013In an article for Building magazine, Alex Kelham discusses a government initiative that allows suppliers of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games to promote certain work they undertook.
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Weapons of mass eviction
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17 May 2013In an article for Inside Housing, Paul Hayes discusses increasing rent arrears and the Registered Providers who are using mandatory grounds for possession. The rising rent arrears are a result of welfare reform. In a bid to defend their income, housing associations are increasingly considering the use of mandatory grounds for possession and, last year, social landlords filed 96,742 possession claims in the county courts.