Solicitors

A solicitor who did not realise that his client had died seven years previously when he purported to act for her has been rebuked by the Solicitors Regulation Authority.

A partner at magic circle firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer is to face a disciplinary tribunal over his sexual conduct in relation to a more junior female member of staff.

The Legal Services Board is pulling back on proposed rules that would not allow bodies like the Law Society and Bar Council to try and “influence” their regulatory arms.

Law firms are willing to draw up non-disclosure agreements that clearly breach Solicitors Regulation Authority guidance, according to the woman whose own NDA threw the spotlight on the issue.

Legal regulators need to introduce common standards for providers of third-party managed accounts as the move for them to replace client account gathers pace, a leading payment processor has argued.

A partner who knowingly employed a struck-off solicitor has himself been struck off by the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal and ordered to pay over £56,000 in costs.

More than half of the reports received by the SRA about the use of non-disclosure agreements in discrimination or harassment cases relate to claims made within law firms, it has emerged.

A solicitor with a previous conviction for drink-driving has been fined £8,000 after she was caught again, having failed to learn from her first offence, a disciplinary tribunal decided.

Two personal injury lawyers who tried to blame “unhelpful” ethics guidance from the Solicitors Regulation Authority for paying banned referral fees have been fined by a tribunal.

A junior solicitor who was convicted after sending a woman he briefly dated a series of abusive Facebook messages has had his sentence reduced but now faces regulatory action too.