News archive
2019
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– January
(63)
- Bullying and harassment calls to legal helpline double
- Panel questions future of underperforming regulator
- Research to probe ethical issues raised by legal technology
- Regulators “must be pressured” to publish lawyers’ disciplinary records
- Solicitor who took £1m from clients jailed
- Vos: “Court technology can speed up progress on diversity”
- Female barristers highlight clash between work and family
- Mini-pupillages could “indirectly discriminate”, BSB review finds
- Listed law firm’s shares soar on positive trading update
- VAT risk for law firms handling insurers’ claims work
- Immigration chief hits out as “abuse” by lawyers
- Struck-off solicitor turned claims manager cannot return to roll
- Struck-off solicitor disbarred over legal aid fraud
- Exclusive: Acquisition vehicle eyes PI firm deal rush
- City firm sets up ‘cheaper’ subsidiary for hedge fund clients
- Top law firm pays £3.5m for misleading US government
- Virtual firm adds share ownership to model
- “Reproduction of the legal profession” at risk from automation
- Tax consultancy sets up ABS to become one-stop shop
- SRA pays Leigh Day £1m in costs to end disciplinary case
- Unlawful service of claim by unregulated person still valid
- Bar Council eyes solicitor support for fair allocation of briefs
- Successor practice application against City firm “futile”
- Fined solicitor who ignored judges’ warnings fails with appeal
- Exclusive: Large PI firm begins three-year voluntary wind-down
- Third deal in eights months for Knights as it unveils strong results
- Bar Council renews attack on BSB over price transparency
- SRA “not sufficiently transparent” in explaining decisions
- Solicitor receives hefty fine in case with link to Panama Papers
- Court orders insurer to cover negligent solicitors’ unpaid costs
- Chartered legal executives seek parity with solicitors
- Solicitor fined for offensive and “bullying” emails
- NAH issues profit warning as third ABS receives green light
- Lawyers making fewer suspicious activity reports
- The Law Superstore relaunches 18 months after takeover
- MPs to probe access to justice impact of court modernisation
- PR: fee-earner or fee-drainer?
- “Nine in ten legal tech start-ups will fail”
- Advice sector set to benefit from trio of new digital tools
- Law firm merger advisers team up to form association
- Global law company seeks more purchases after buying UK firm
- Top firm uses computer simulations to train new partners
- Law Society: Employer clients’ interests don’t trump all in NDAs
- Young lawyers “fearful of innovation resistance”
- No TUPE protection for most staff shed in Lawyers Inc takeover
- Gateley set to become first listed law firm with £100m revenue
- Jail for solicitor “who wouldn’t ask too many questions”
- Solicitor who ran unauthorised law firm struck off
- Listed legal businesses buck downward market trend
- SDT shows leniency to solicitor who faked sick note
- PDS employee “unfairly dismissed” after work with murderer
- Judge criticises top firm for exacerbating divorce conflict
- Man jailed for harassing judges by megaphone, email and Twitter
- EU urges ethics guidance to make AI “trustworthy”
- Solicitor jailed for fine wine scam ordered to repay thousands
- Consumer panel attacks BSB over price transparency
- Solicitor fined for breaking referral fee ban – again
- Non-litigation justice needed “but robots not answer”
- Gordon Dadds unveils slimmed-down £27m deal for Ince
- Blavo told to repay £22m over “endemic” legal aid fraud
- Tax fraud solicitor struck off despite police plot plea
- Demand for pro bono advice “continues to rise”
- Creating a mentally healthy workplace
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