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A coalition of 45 organisations has been formed to support a £5.8m project aimed at connecting people more closely to the law.

The Legal Ombudsman is to increase its budget by £2m or 11.4%, having received fierce criticism of its initial plan for a 10.2% rise – but it was nearly even more.

There are now just nine tier 1 medical reporting organisations available on MedCo after one resigned from the system citing payment delays among other issues.

A paralegal has been banned from the profession for fabricating an email in a bid to cover up a mistake she made that led to a case being struck out.

The Bar Council has transferred delivery of the Bar Sustainability Network from itself to a consultancy that specialises in running carbon-cutting initiatives across the legal profession.

At least 15 consumer claims law firms have gone bust in the last five years owing more than £400m and poor practices in the sector will likely lead to more, a leading insurer has predicted.

In the second part of this interview, Will Evans, who leads the professional services team at Arrowpoint Advisory, talks about the next steps for private equity investment in the law.

A solicitor who paid away proceeds of a property sale in breach of an undertaking and then loaned the client the money to make up the shortfall, has been fined for misconduct.

Poor-quality immigration legal aid work is having “devastating consequences” for clients and better support from the Solicitors Regulation Authority would help, a report has found.

We talk to Will Evans, a managing director at Arrowpoint Advisory, about how private equity activity in the legal market has sped up in recent months and looks set to continue.