News archive
2020
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– October
(75)
- Number of solicitors on the roll hits 200,000 for first time
- Consumers “growing in confidence” to manage own PI claims
- “Not all mistakes are misconduct”, says SDT as it clears solicitor
- Record fine for Co-op Legal Services after indemnity principle breach
- Success planning trumps succession planning
- LeO to seek in-year budget supplement for first time
- “KKK” solicitor fined for groping female colleagues
- Female lawyers anxious over disproportionate impact of Covid
- Pro-Beijing lawyer faces SDT over “kill protestors” comments
- High street solicitor launches second BSB firm with client
- SRA slapped with costs order over failed prosecution
- Consumers use “limited criteria” when shopping around for lawyers
- Top PI firms reveal mixed profits as another hits TV to build brand
- Personal injury lawyer who “wrecked lives” is struck off
- PI firms “failing to understand” what clients look for in a lawyer
- Law firm loses appeal against penalty for late tax payment
- Family lawyers embrace mixed teams to offer non-court alternatives
- Why remote working has exacerbated cyber-security concerns
- Accountants ponder new push to regulate legal services
- City solicitor fails in claim for pay reduced during Covid
- Frenkel Topping given more time for NAHL takeover talks
- Reduced legal budgets seen as biggest virus challenge
- Court reforms data collection progress “disappointing”
- PI firms face deluge of costs claims after High Court ruling
- “Don’t drain law firms of Black talent”, GCs told
- Lawyers and accountants at odds over economic crime levy
- Remote hearings “can bring horror into your home”, says judge
- Exclusive: Keystone investor eyes next legal opportunity
- SRA seeks charitable status in Law Society split
- Barrister suspended for breaking man’s jaw with hockey stick
- Legal Ombudsman hires new leadership team
- Price transparency “dispelling fears” about cost of legal services
- Solicitors to have vote on reform of Law Society council
- LSB “forced” accountants to withdraw from legal services regulation
- Remote hearing success means no backlog in some family courts
- High Court upholds order to stop barrister from acting
- Ethics worry with lawyers and lawtech firms “not speaking same language”
- New hub to aid Black founders with scaling up businesses
- Legal Ombudsman urges CMA to extend reach to unregulated firms
- Cutting to the chase on the SQE
- Exclusive: High street consolidator buys three more firms
- Bullying at the Bar “tolerated”, with pupils suffering most
- Barristers on AG panels “should consider resigning”, says top QC
- Pandemic the “right time” to launch law firm
- In-house solicitor wins unfair dismissal claim against insurer
- Law Society “must show it listens to solicitors” about cost of practising
- Obelisk adds paralegals and junior lawyers to freelance pool
- Man who “probably” contacted Legal Futures pretending to be judge jailed for harassing him
- “No excuse” for barrister’s positive discrimination jibe at judge
- Big firms “quietly” working to reclaim ground from alternative providers
- Rocket Lawyer imports English model back to US
- The inherent dilemma of the in-house lawyer
- Employee ownership move like “rocket fuel”, says firm
- MP urges government to raise conveyancing standards
- Limit on Law Society council terms “essential for diversity”
- Race equality and inclusion in law firms “totally achievable”
- Bar Council: Positive action like ‘preferential briefing’ can aid diversity
- LeO warns over emerging trend of holiday sickness complaints
- Law Society conveyancing scheme a “barrier to competition”
- Solicitor apprentices train while boosting advice agency
- More mergers mark start of new insurance year
- “Manifestly incompetent” partner suspended over client cash
- SRA: transparency rules compliance “improving”
- Leeds bids to rival London for lawtech as ABSs thrive
- Gunnercooke develops associate and multi-disciplinary offerings
- Solicitor asked boss to help cover up her misconduct
- Report calls for disclosure, not ban, of estate agent referral fees
- LSB hints at forcing regulators to fund Legal Choices
- Fine for drunk solicitor who assaulted 18-year-old woman
- S&G to “automate everything” as it says: The future is digital
- Disabled lawyers “benefit from homeworking during pandemic”
- Undertaking due diligence for relatives of PEPs
- No sanction for trainee who billed “in anticipation” of doing work
- LSB issues wide-ranging list of weaknesses in legal market
- MoJ: “Time has come” to mandate online probate applications
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