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Most female barristers say the menopause has had a “negative impact” on their role, with the Bar Council saying it should be a protected characteristic under the Equality Act 2010.

A partner in a London law firm has been fined £25,000 for allowing its client account to be used as a banking facility and failing to make adequate identity checks.

Legal data is a “valuable asset” which needs to be managed responsibly, while the belief that all types of legal data are sensitive and confidential is a “common misconception”, LawtechUK has said.

The public policy behind the ban on a solicitor taking an assignment of their client’s cause of action prior to judgment holds good in the era of DBAs, the Court of Appeal has ruled.

Any convention that former judges should not advise clients after they retire from the bench has come to an end, the ex-president of the Supreme Court has suggested.

A new law firm called RJW Legal, made up of the Manchester-based criminal law team of Slater & Gordon, starts work today as part of consolidator Metamorph Law.

New rules on the information that must be included in property listings will encourage sellers to instruct conveyancers earlier in the process, National Trading Standards has said.

International professional services group ETL Global has unveiled its fourth law firm deal in England and Wales after one of its earlier acquisitions bought a fellow London commercial firm.

The healthy state of the legal market, with law firms expanding their range of services, is leading to a talent war and rapidly rising salaries, new research has found.

The Legal Ombudsman is in crisis but “refusing to acknowledge serious and fundamental concerns” facing the organisation, the Public and Commercial Services union has warned.