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Beaumont ABS Ltd, one of the companies in the Metamorph Law group, owes creditors £2.3m. Meanwhile, a winding-up order has been made against another group company.

The SQE could be deconstructed and its modules used to form the “final end-point test” for chartered legal executives and licensed conveyancers as well as solicitors.

A £600,000 print and digital advertising campaign to draw public attention to the landmark £17bn Mastercard class action began yesterday.

An alternative business structure that aims to combine the best of traditional law firms and of the new-model fee-share practices has gone live.

Cultural change is needed for in-house legal teams to fully benefit from the wider liberalisation in the market since the Legal Services Act reforms took hold, a new report has argued.

A start-up founded by a City solicitor that creates visual models of complex legal transactions is aiming to double in size by the end of next year after raising almost £3m in funding.

The justice select committee has backed the appointment of management specialist Helen Pitcher as the new chair of the Judicial Appointments Commission.

The LSB has begun talking about taking formal action against the BSB over shortcomings in its performance, which it has emerged include how it has dealt with the Post Office scandal.

A leading Midlands law firm has become the fourth in the UK to obtain B Corporation status, meaning that it aims to balance profit with purpose.

Almost all larger law firms are increasing billable hours targets for their lawyers but write-offs are also on the rise, a report has found.