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The Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal has urged solicitors under work pressures to “be open with their clients when problems arise” after suspending a “cavalier” partner.

Shares in listed legal business RBG Holdings fell to an all-time low today after it said turnover would be down a “disappointing” 16% in 2023. The price fell 35% in early trading.

The High Court has struck out a claim against a London law firm because of a release clause in a previous settlement involving its clients.

Delaying the point at which barristers are called to the Bar until after obtaining pupillage could improve social mobility if it reduces the number of overseas students and “less able domestic students”.

CrowdJustice, the pioneering funding platform for legal fees, has been acquired by the country’s largest crowdfunder, which aims to “amplify” the work it does.

A solicitor who submitted a claim form for far less than the case was worth, in order to avoid paying a large court fee, and later fabricated it to show a higher value, has been struck off.

The government has acknowledged concerns that its legislative proposal to address the Supreme Court’s PACCAR ruling does not go far enough – but further change is not imminent.

An experienced male solicitor found to have inappropriately touched a 21-year-old female paralegal, including slapping her backside, has been suspended for a year.

The Legal Services Board plans to increase its “capacity and capability” to launch investigations into, and reviews of, the frontline regulators “on a regular basis”.

There is a “slow but steady increase in diversity among all lawyers”, the Solicitors Regulation Authority reported yesterday in its biennial collection of the profession’s diversity data.