The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) maintains strict requirements for financial record keeping within law firms. Understanding and implementing these requirements is not merely a regulatory ...

Looking ahead at this year, we delve into the biggest trends for the legal sector and how they can be best navigated to build ...

The Lady Chief Justice has suggested that a new mediation council should be set up for civil and commercial matters to ...

The Law Society and the Bar Council have strongly attacked plans by the Legal Services Board to increase its budget by 14% to ...

The proportion of law firms switching insurer for lower premiums at last year’s October renewal rose significantly with ...

The Legal Ombudsman is bucking the wider trend of requiring staff to spend more time in the office and is instead halving it to the equivalent of one day a week.

The High Court has rejected a solicitor and his client’s bid to challenge the Judicial Conduct Investigations Office’s ...

The SRA yesterday handed out a fine and a rebuke for breaching undertakings, one relating to property transactions and the other to a divorce matter.

East Midlands law firm Nelsons has completed its third local acquisition, in the wake of its private equity owner adding ...

The evidence “does not support anxiety about standards” for qualifying as a barrister, despite rising numbers seeking to do ...

The High Court has rejected a solicitor and his client’s bid to challenge the Judicial Conduct Investigations Office’s refusal to entertain their complaints about three Court of Appeal judges. The SRA ...