Legal Services Act

LegalZoom, the US-based online legal services provider that owns an ABS, has received a $500m investment – believed to be the largest ever in the legal world.

Consumers are happier with the service they receive from lawyers than any other time this decade, according to new research.

The State Bar of California has been urged to take the lead in the US in allowing non-lawyers to invest in and own law firms. It has agreed to set up a task force to investigate.

Fast-growing alternative business structure Progeny Group has acquired its third wealth management firm in little more than a year, also launched a wide-ranging legal subscription service.

Some 35 Labour MPs have signed an early day motion in Parliament calling on the government to withdraw its planned increase in the small claims limit for personal injury.

Fundamental rights to legal advice and representation for people accused of crimes are at risk, the justice select committee has warned.

The Legal Services Board is to impose reform that will end the “different treatment” for accountancy regulators which also oversee legal services.

MPs on the justice select committee have called on the government to explain why it considers the proposed increase in the small claims limit to £5,000 “proportionate”.

A legal tech business spun out of a law firm run by a former City solicitor and his technologist brother has secured £3.1m in private equity investment.

The Legal Ombudsman badly missed its targets over the last year following an unexpected surge in complex complaints against lawyers.