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Lawyers in the future will likely be more public-spirited and less focused on personal enrichment, but demand for legal skills will persist whatever the political context, according to one of the world’s premier futurologists.

The Solicitors Regulation Authority has discontinued disciplinary tribunal proceedings against two solicitors after they admitted multiple accounts rules breaches.

The Bar Standards Board went back on its intention to issue guidance on the use of non-disclosure agreements after concluding it was “neither necessary nor appropriate”, MPs have been told.

A solicitor prosecuted for his involvement in a Ponzi scheme – and for the second time over the same set of facts related to a collapsed overseas investment scheme – has this time been struck off.

The charity that publishes law reports for the higher courts of England and Wales yesterday launched a research lab to leverage its archive of law reports in boosting legal innovation.

A solicitor who was jailed for 30 days after pleading guilty to making false statements to the Mueller inquiry has been referred to the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal.

A new organisation looking to bring together and speak for all those involved in supporting claimants in the civil justice system is formally launching tomorrow, Legal Futures can reveal.

Acting without integrity involves “greater moral turpitude” on the part of a solicitor than dishonesty but a lesser sanction, a High Court judge has ruled, while appearing to question previous authority.

The first chambers to use a recruitment system which provides ‘contextual’ information to improve diversity is not “virtue signalling”, the head of its pupillage committee has said.

A barrister who failed to tell a client that he was withdrawing from their case before the Court of Appeal has effectively been suspended for three years. He did not tell his chambers either.