Legal regulators and representatives join government SLAPPs taskforce
Legal regulators and representative bodies were yesterday named as members of a new government taskforce aiming to clamp down on SLAPPs.
Five-year jail sentence for man who defrauded probate clients
A “callous” man who purported to carry out probate for vulnerable clients has been jailed after admitting to defrauding them of nearly £1m.
Magic circle firm agrees to meet lawyer eco-campaigners
Slaughter and May has become the first magic circle law firm to agree to meet Lawyers Are Responsible, the campaigners urging big practices to stop work on fossil fuel projects.
Litigation funder eyes up $6.2bn return from single case
The world’s biggest litigation funder could recover an astonishing $6.2bn (£5bn) from a single piece of litigation after a US ruling in its clients’ favour.
Reputation management ABS to launch communications consultancy
Schillings – the multi-disciplinary London law firm that operates as a reputation management business – is launching a strategic communications business.
Irwin Mitchell targets Scotland with major acquisition
National giant Irwin Mitchell has unveiled a major expansion of its Scottish practice by acquiring five-office firm Wright Johnston & Mackenzie.
Surge in legal businesses embedding social purpose as B Corps
There has been a surge in legal businesses becoming B Corporations, the movement which aims to balance profit with purpose, with Obelisk Support and the London Law Collective the most recent.
“Catalogue of mistakes” – STEP makes case for will-writing regulation
Nearly half of consumers who have a will either wrote their own or obtained it through a cheap online service, with hardly any checking the credentials of the provider.
Government set to resist calls for ban on NDAs in the workplace
The government indicated this week that it would resist calls for a statutory ban on non-disclosure agreements in the workplace, having been told that lawyers “are part of the problem”.
Solicitor who “failed to disclose existence of clients” struck off
A solicitor who told clients to pay fees into his personal bank account, in some cases for work that was never done, has been struck off by the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal.
