Legal Executives
The ethical lawyer
Anna Buttimore, administrator of lawyers’ support charity LawCare, considers the stresses that finding yourself in an ethical dilemma – such as blowing the whistle on possible wrongdoing at your firm – can cause and where to seek help.
ILEX makes consumer protection argument to protect ‘legal executive’ title
The Institute of Legal Executives has called on the incoming government to protect the title of ‘legal executive’ as a matter of consumer protection as currently anyone can call themselves a legal executive regardless of whether they have any legal qualification.
Legal executives seek full spread of rights
ILEX Professional Standards (IPS) is to seek conveyancing and criminal advocacy and litigation rights for legal executives, it has emerged. It forms part of IPS’s plan to become a regulator of alternative business structures.
ILEX considers legal version of Hippocratic Oath
The Institute of Legal Executives is considering whether to become the first legal body to require newly qualified members to take a ‘lawyer’s oath’ equivalent to the Hippocratic Oath doctors take on qualification.
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How does the legal profession become neuroinclusive?
My learning journey as mum to an autistic son with profound additional needs completely changed the way in which I work as a child protection lawyer.
The real cure for inequality at law firms? Listening
How can men, as one male panellist put it, “get out of the way of people coming up through the ranks?”
Most of these conversations only happen after the men leave the room.
Andy Burnham and the Hillsborough Law: should solicitors be worried?
Now that Andy Burnham has become prime minister, the Public Office (Accountability) Bill, otherwise known as the Hillsborough Law, will receive a real boost of political capital.
