Exclusive: QS launches R&D division, with new campaign and strategy imminent

QualitySolicitors is set to unveil a “new approach to delivering legal services”, Legal Futures can reveal. It comes as the company’s deal with WH Smith winds down and founder Craig Holt becomes president to focus on research and development.

1,300 law firms face emergency hunt for new indemnity insurer

The 1,300 law firms who have their professional indemnity insurance with Balva face the prospect of having four weeks to find new cover if the winding-up process the Latvian company started yesterday becomes an “insolvency event”, the Solicitors Regulation Authority has warned.

AG rejects call to cap government-instructed lawyers’ rates at legal aid levels

The Attorney General has rejected a call to cap the pay of lawyers instructed by the state at legal aid rates, arguing that the work of government is “vastly more varied and complex than that for individuals and corporate”.

SRA will consider “fast-tracking” ABS applications aimed at price competitive tendering

The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) will consider fast-tracking alternative business structure (ABS) applicants who want to bid for the government’s proposed criminal legal aid contracts, Legal Futures can reveal.

Law Society kicks out committee members who failed to undergo E&D training

Will-writers face jail as new code of practice scheme goes live

Consumers “still see lawyers as too expensive”, says research