News archive
2021
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- Listed business make major move with £30m law firm acquisition
- Legal Services Act has delivered “limited benefits to competition”
- LSB: Regulators must play role in unleashing potential of lawtech
- Citizens Advice reveals huge demand for help during pandemic
- Owners of closed law firms told: Find extra run-off cover – if you can
- “I totally cracked” – law firm founder struck off for client money theft
- Call for work to make consumer-facing legal documents more intelligible
- Woman jailed for providing unqualified immigration advice
- ‘Knowledge activation’ is key for the future hybrid workforce
- SDT: Drink-drive solicitor did not automatically undermine public trust
- NDA initiative aims to promote benefits of standardisation
- Senior City lawyers want to continue working flexibly – or will leave
- 160 firms sign up to consumer app aiming to transform access to lawyers
- Solicitor unfairly dismissed for refusing Covid variation to contract
- Profession has struggled with AML rules, says firm fined £10,000
- Firm to use AI to triage new clients and give initial advice
- Solicitor struck off for “sophisticated” Land Registry fraud
- Conveyancing giant enters the big leagues as acquisitions pay off
- SRA bid to cut Compensation Fund payout cap facing rejection
- SRA backs new cyber-losses clause for indemnity policies
- IP lawyers face multi-million pound claim over “secret commissions”
- Fine for solicitor who acted on both sides in “undue influence” house sale
- Negligence claim against Irwin Mitchell thrown out after assignment
- Law firm and top entrepreneur ramp up Thirdfort backing
- Solicitors who misused £1m raised from loan notes struck off
- Irwin Mitchell tipped for £500m stock market listing – again
- Ince launches client onboarding solution for estate agents
- Law firms’ cost focus will drive financial innovation in the sector
- Ban for accountant jailed over £400k theft from major City law firm
- Solicitor paid away £290k of sale proceeds after falling for email fraud
- Covid hits revenue and profits at Co-op Legal Services
- Petition calls for SRA to allow unsolicited approaches online
- Bristol and Bath region targets growing lawtech role
- No TUPE protection for staff after firm’s owner made bankrupt
- Wellbeing a “global problem” with severe effects on some lawyers
- “No evidence” of worse outcomes from unregulated firms
- Law firm’s virtual careers event attracts 7,000 teenagers
- QC’s opinion “crudely altered” to mislead third party, court finds
- Tribunal awards ex-Kingly solicitors £37k in compensation
- Law firms should advertise unbundled advice, says consumer panel
- Negative perceptions of Bar “still a barrier to social mobility”
- How burnout was my catalyst for serving lawyers instead of being one
- Senior judge criticises counsel for withdrawing from case without explanation
- Law firm did not discriminate against menopausal apprentice
- US court lifts prosecution risk for City firm holding disputed funds
- Former Bar chair’s rallying call: “We are all Essex Court now”
- Fitness to practise regime “can deal with incompetent lawyers”
- Lawtech start-up outlines big ambitions for family law disputes
- Pandemic led to “dramatic” change for notaries
- Former army lawyer takes “military approach” to legal services
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