Susskind lays out blueprint for education and training reform
The Legal Education and Training Review (LETR) should recruit a high-powered team of young lawyers to vet its proposals and provide fresh insights into the future of the legal marketplace, Professor Richard Susskind has urged.
The legal lot of the asylum seeker: complex system, hard-to-find lawyers and “sloppy” advice
Vulnerable asylum seekers are at risk of “serious detriment” from a complex asylum process and potentially “sloppy” work by immigration advisers, according to the Legal Services Consumer Panel.
High Court throws out racial discrimination challenge to SDT ruling
The High Court has thrown out a solicitor’s challenge to the decision to suspend him, which he argued was tainted by racial discrimination. Mr Justice Haddon-Cave said that “no scintilla of discrimination of any kind is detectible”.
Pinto Potts cites uncertain post-Jackson future as key driver for Quindell deal
The law firm that yesterday agreed to be bought by Quindell Portfolio did so in the face of a “future laced with uncertainty” for personal injury practitioners, its managing partner has told Legal Futures.
Twitter and Facebook are the new golf course – law firms urged to take online marketing initiative
Law firms will have to adopt a more forceful marketing model if they are to survive in the post-alternative business structure (ABS) marketplace, a specialist in growing online businesses has urged.
High Court backs SRA bid to increase suspension of solicitor to a strike-off
The High Court has struck off a solicitor who was only suspended by the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal. The Solicitors Regulation Authority appealed the February 2011 decision to suspend him for three years, even though he was found him to have acted dishonestly.
Quindell to acquire second leading PI firm
AIM-listed Quindell Portfolio is to acquire its second leading claimant personal injury (PI) law firm after reaching agreement to purchase Pinto Potts for around £14m. The deal also extends Quindell’s offering to insurers beyond PI.
One in six solicitors have experienced bullying, Law Society research finds
Around a sixth of practising solicitors – and a quarter of those working in-house – say they have been bullied in the workplace, according to a survey on wellbeing in the profession. Almost one in five of solicitors suffer from severe stress or worse, the figures also suggest.
Law students wary of impact of ABSs on salaries and status
Law students believe that alternative business structures will mean more job opportunities but lower salaries and status, according to a survey conducted by the College of Law. It also found that four in ten post-graduate students are shouldering debts of more than £20,000
Bar Council: solicitors to blame for falling criminal advocacy standards
It is solicitors, and not barristers, who are to blame for the decline in advocacy standards that has led to the Quality Assurance Scheme for Advocates (QASA), the Bar Council has claimed, while also strongly opposing the creation of ‘plea-only advocates’.
