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To Qualify or Not to Qualify
Monday, 8 March 2021Law firms or legal providers that offer legal services are regulated by regulators such as the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) to maintain the public trust and the ethical delivery of legal services. Solicitors often receive and hold their client’s money as part of a legal service e.g. buying a house.
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Furloughed but never forgotten
Wednesday, 3 March 2021Have you arranged refresher training yet for your staff that may have been on furlough? The government is actively encouraging employers to do so and the Institute is ready and keen to help you provide it.
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Salary Survey 2021
Monday, 1 March 2021Our 2021 Legal Accounts Salary Survey is now live, and we again need to ask for your help in compiling the all-important data. It seems like a lifetime ago when we published the results of our 2020 Legal Accounts Salary Survey, which arrived during a period of widespread uncertainty for the legal sector and economy as a whole.
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Change in regulator shouldn’t make AML less of a priority
While SRA fines for AML have been climbing, many in the profession aren’t confident they will get any relief from the FCA, a body used to dealing with a highly regulated industry.
There are 17 million wills waiting to be written
The main reason cited by people who do not have a will was a lack of awareness as to how to arrange one. As a professional community, we seem to be failing to get our message across.
The case for a single legal services regulator: why the current system is failing
From catastrophic firm collapses to endemic compliance failures, the evidence is mounting that the current multi-regulator model is fundamentally broken.
