Practice Management

Firms should relieve lawyers who hold their anti-money laundering compliance roles of some of their fee-earning workload and consider appointing deputies too, the SRA has said.

The law firm leading the new wave of firms balancing profit with social purpose has turned down “quite a lot” of potential clients for ethical reasons, its managing partner revealed last week.

Half of all legal professionals think that the pandemic has been detrimental to their career, with many now looking for new roles, according to a survey conducted by a Kent law firm.

Law firms record lower scores for customer experience than other professional sectors, with a host of “basic and avoidable errors” costing them new business, a survey has found.

Lawyers must “redouble” their efforts to provide pro bono legal advice because the pandemic had led to “increased inequality”, the London Solicitors Litigation Association has said.

Twenty one major commercial law firms have joined forces on a new initiative aimed at tackling the under-representation of Black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) groups in the profession.

The latest law firm to embrace employee ownership, West Midlands firm Talbots Law, is looking to buy other firms as part of its ambitious expansion plans.

Demand for pro bono legal assistance has accelerated dramatically since the pandemic started and providers cannot keep up, leading lawyers said this week.

The top 100 UK law firms are more likely to see cyber-attacks as a threat to their ambitions than Covid-19, a survey by Big Four accountants PwC has found.

Ampa – the group that owns midlands law firm Shakespeare Martineau – has made its first non-legal services provider acquisition since unveiling its innovative ‘house of brands’ strategy last year.