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Please note, visitor parking spaces at our St Albans office will be limited during our refurbishment project.
We are ready for the careers fair at Berkhamsted school! 📚📖
Thanks to our social committee for organising a great a trip to the theatre yesterday evening to watch @sixthemusical 🎭🎶#theatre #London #stafftreats
Thank you to @Dominos_SE and also to @SA_Law & @DebenhamsOtt for your raffle prize donations! 🥂🍷🍫
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Great turnout for our City Club event this morning! Thank you to @Strettons1931 and @AlixPartnersLLP for speaking on the panel alongside our internal speakers @luketharrison & Panayiota Ioannou #insolvency #tenants #CVAs #landlords
Recruitment
We are looking for a secretary to provide secretarial and administrative assistance to a minimum of two fee earners.
Commercial property lawyer – 3 years’ PQE+
We are looking for an experienced lawyer/legal executive to join our established commercial property team and work on a varied case load of all aspects of commercial property matters, including landlord & tenant, purchases and sales and development.
Business services legal assistant
We are looking for a legal assistant to join our business services team, the role will involve providing administrative and fee earning assistance on a varied case load of employment and company/commercial matters.
Debenhams Ottaway were recently involved in an Employment Tribunal case which could affect the employment rights of thousands of peripatetic teachers across the UK.
In the case of Scott v Chigwell School and Others, Michael Kerrigan acted on beh...
The Court of Appeal has recently clarified the position on (a) whether section 423 of the Insolvency Act 1986 can apply to dividends, and (b) the circumstances in which the duty of directors to have to regard to the interests of creditors arises - BTI 2014 LLC v Sequana S.A. & Ors [2019] EWCA Civ 112.
On 6 Februar...
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