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A solicitor who stole cash from a vulnerable client using her debit card while acting under a lasting power of attorney has been struck off.

An immigration platform launching this week is aiming to help law firms attract “very strong leads”, in return for a monthly subscription.

A start-up that creates visual models of complex legal transactions, set up by a former City solicitor, has announced a $6m funding boost, led by American investors.

A solicitor who misled a vulnerable family law client into sending explicit photographs of herself to his personal mobile phone has been struck off.

The Barrister Group has used some of the private equity funding it secured this time last year to recruit what it believes to be the largest single intake of pupils at the Bar.

The Probate Service needs to share more data about its performance so that lawyers can manage client expectations, the outgoing chair of the justice select committee has said.

The High Court has used new powers to “encourage” the use of alternative dispute resolution (ADR) in family proceedings in the absence of agreement between the parties.

The number of complaints received by law firms went up by about a fifth between 2019 and 2023, the SRA has found – but averages out only at four per practice.

Efforts by the Solicitors Regulation Authority to speed up investigations are falling short of some of the targets introduced last year, it has emerged.

Members of the BSB clashed with senior staff last week over how to deal with the large number of foreign lawyers seeking to be called in England and Wales but who do not intend to practise here.