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Stuart Gillespie, founder of recruitment company G2 Legal, has set up a commercial law alternative business structure with his in-house solicitor, Lucy Tarrant. They are partners in Cognitive Law LLP.

Legal entrepreneur Brad Askew has relaunched a property website for landlords, which attracts up to 600,000 unique visits a year. The Tenancy Agreement Service is aimed particularly at the 78% of Britain’s 3.5m private landlords who only let one property.

Quindell plc told investors today that it cannot explain the latest slide in its volatile share price. The alternative business structure closed at 136.5p on Friday, down nearly 10% on the day and 35% since announcing its first-half results on 21 August.

Cherie Blair QC is to throw herself into her work with her alternative business structure (ABS) Omnia Strategy after leaving Matrix Chambers, which she co-founded 14 years ago.

Two north-west alternative business structures (ABSs) have announced record results, while Slater & Gordon’s next potential acquisition, and first in Wales, has emerged.

Lawyers2you, the shopping centre-based marketing brand previously owned by failed Birmingham firm Blakemores, has been resurrected and relaunched with the first two stands open for business this week, Legal Futures can reveal.

The Solicitors Regulation Authority has reined in its ambitions for massive internal powers to fine solicitors and ‘traditional’ law firms, applying to increase the current £2,000 limit to £10,000.

There has been a hitch in the Legal Services Board approving the Bar Standards Board’s bid to regulate entities, meaning that the LSB has had to issue a formal warning notice that it is considering whether to refuse the application.

National Accident Helpline has today unveiled a 26% jump in profits, in the first financial results released since the personal injury marketing business listed on AIM in May.

The work to develop the Slater & Gordon brand in the UK has made it one of the three best-known law firms in the UK, with one in 10 consumers recognising its name, the firm has told shareholders.

Solicitors Regulation Authority plans to make it easier for multi-disciplinary practices to be licensed as alternative business structures will give the large accountancy firms a competitive advantage, the Law Society has claimed.

Rising demand from FTSE 100 and Fortune 500 clients has led Riverview Law to stop offering its innovative annual contracts for small businesses, Legal Futures has learned.

The Legal Ombudsman has introduced a policy for dealing with complaints about organisations which provide non-legal as well as legal services, such as some alternative business structures and, shortly, accountants who offer probate advice.

Law firm network QualitySolicitors has ditched its nascent ‘Upfront Price Promise’ in favour of a ‘Clear Price Guarantee’ after its research found consumers valued transparency more than fixed fees.

The board of the Solicitors Regulation Authority today approved a series of measures to further its regulatory reform programme, including making it easier for multi-disciplinary practices to become alternative business structures.