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Grayling tells LSB to work towards its own abolition (LF)

The Lord Chancellor has set the Legal Services Board (LSB) the task of working towards its own abolition as part of a push to reduce the burden of regulation on

Rob Hailstone June 5, 2014

Conveyancing: Personal Searches vs. Official Searches (EAT)

Should a conveyancer carry out a personal search or a full official search?

Rob Hailstone June 5, 2014

Partners in the spotlight as a fifth of firms report “competence failures” (LF)

Almost a fifth of firms have reported “failures in competent legal service delivery” in the last 12 months, a major study for the Solicitors Regulation Authority has found.

Rob Hailstone June 5, 2014

ASA orders leading PI firm to stop adverts due to NHS ‘confusion’ (LF)

A well-known personal injury firm has been ordered to stop running a TV advert which directed clients to its NHSLaw.co.uk website, on the grounds that the public might confuse it

Rob Hailstone June 4, 2014

Not-for-profit’s ground-breaking ABS eyes expansion (LF)

The firm, created by Leicester-based Community Advice and Law Service (CALS) a year ago, has found the going tough, but is hopeful that income from private client work will be

Rob Hailstone June 4, 2014

New law to target “corrupt lawyers” who help criminals (LF)

“Corrupt lawyers” who help who organised crime gangs and hide behind a “veneer of respectability” will be targeted by a new offence, the Home Office announced yesterday.

Rob Hailstone June 4, 2014

ABS model boosts Knights’ revenue by 28% (LSG)

Revenue at private equity-backed north-west firm Knights grew 28% to £12m in 2013/14 – with the rise attributed to the firm’s first full year as an alternative business structure (ABS).

Rob Hailstone June 4, 2014

Building Society chooses Shakespeares conveyancing (TC)

Following an intensive tender process, growing Midlands law firm Shakespeares has successfully won renewed and extended contracts with Coventry Building Society’s legal panel to deliver re-mortgaging and conveyancing services.

Rob Hailstone June 3, 2014

New tax system in Wales: have your say

The Wales Bill will give the Welsh government new powers to borrow money and create new taxes to replace stamp duty land tax and landfill tax. It will also allow

Rob Hailstone June 3, 2014

SRA publishes response to the Independent Comparative Case Review

The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) has today (Tuesday, 3 June) issued its response to Professor Gus John’s Independent Comparative Case Review (ICCR) report, which was published in March this year.

Rob Hailstone June 3, 2014

Racial over-representation ‘an issue’, SRA agrees (LSG)

The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) has accepted the findings of an independent report showing black and minority ethnic (BME) solicitors to be over-represented in its regulatory activities.

Rob Hailstone June 3, 2014

Medium-sized firms lead way on fee income, profits and PEP (LF)

Law firms with 11 to 25 partners are leading the way out of recession, with rising fee incomes, net profits and a 21% surge in profit per equity partner (PEP),

Rob Hailstone June 3, 2014