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The number of law firms in England and Wales has dipped below 9,000 for the first time in recent memory after dropping by nearly 2,000 over the past 15 years.

Solicitors yesterday received an invitation to vote on whether to increase the threshold for calling an SGM of the Law Society – a move it no longer supports.

Senior associates are the unhappiest cohort of fee-earners at UK law firms and represent the biggest “flight risk”, according to research.

No mention of a new tax on LLPs and making apprenticeship training free for under-25s in SMEs were the good news for lawyers in yesterday’s Budget.

The SRA needs to provide urgent advice on how artificial intelligence can be used in litigation in compliance with the Mazur ruling, the Law Society has said.

A leading provider of outsourced services and consultancy to the insurance industry has launched its own law firm to handle litigated disease, illness and abuse claims.

Efforts to reduce the number of avoidable requisitions that the HM Land Registry has to make are working, new figures have shown.

The restriction of funding for Level 7 apprenticeships, like those for solicitors, will not cause a “significant or unavoidable fall” in the supply of skills, the government insisted yesterday.

The Court of Appeal has granted CILEX permission to appeal against the Mazur judgment, saying it “raises an important point of practice”.

The “chaos” caused by the Mazur ruling demands “a courageous, full-scale review of the regulatory framework” in response, the chair of the Legal Services Consumer Panel has argued.