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Small law firms could end up “falling or stepping away” from the clinical negligence market if fixed recoverable costs (FRC) for cases worth less than £25,000 are set too low.

Financial and professional services group Punter Southall has laid out plans to expand its nascent consultancy law firm as it offers senior lawyers a new option to continue their careers.

The Solicitors Regulation Authority has stepped up its probe of solicitors who acted for the Post Office during the sub-postmasters’ scandal, it has emerged.

A solicitor suspended for a year after a tribunal ruled he had acted dishonestly in signing a declaration on behalf of one of his firm’s directors has successfully challenged the decision.

Litigation funder Balance Legal Capital has raised £130m in the first close for a new fund as we round up developments in the funding world, including an ‘initial legal offering’ to the public.

A law firm partner dismissed a “inconvenient” member of staff because she was having a difficult pregnancy and taking time off work, an employment tribunal has found.

Plans for major shake-up of the rules of the Legal Ombudsman, including reducing the time limit to bring complaints from six years to one, have been unveiled.

The former boss of a personal injury claims management company previously jailed for contempt of court has now been convicted of failing to preserve company accounting records.

A law firm which specialises in the recovery of unpaid parking fines has been fined £15,000 for delays in investigating unallocated payments from debtors totalling nearly £130,000 at one point.

National law firm Simpson Millar has launched a single lawyer divorce service for couples committed to an “amicable solution”, following a prediction by Resolution last year that this was the future.