Unchaining in-house: LSB looks to cut ‘unnecessary restrictions’ on in-house lawyers Legal Business The Legal Services Board (LSB) has raised concern over whether current regulatory restrictions for in-house lawyers are justified, stating that…
Deregulating education: BSB proposes to put barristers in charge of pupillage Legal Business The Bar Standards Board (BSB) has today (20 February) announced in a new report that chambers and employers are best…
News in brief – December 2014 Legal Business KING & WOOD MALLESONS HIRES HEAVYWEIGHT EVERSHEDS TRIO KWM last month hired former Eversheds senior partner Cornelius Medvei alongside former…
Broadening ‘the public’s choice’: Bar Standards Board to regulate businesses from 2015 Sarah Downey The Bar Standards Board (BSB) has received approval from the Legal Services Board (LSB) for its application to regulate businesses…
Hong Kong Law Society president forced to go amid row over independence from China Legal Business Ambrose Lam, president of the Hong Kong Law Society since May last year, was forced to resign on 19 August…
Law Society foresees return to pre-recession growth for industry by 2015 Legal Business The Law Society has forecasted the UK legal industry will return to pre-Lehman levels of growth by next year, according…
Asia: Fears over Hong Kong’s judicial autonomy see vote of no confidence passed in local law society head Legal Business Hong Kong lawyers turned out in force last night (14 August) to cast a vote of no confidence in local…
‘The overall benefits are potentially enormous’: Bucks County Council granted ABS licence with emergency services group Sarah Downey In a move that has been welcomed by the Legal Services Board, the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) has granted an…
The Bar: BSB picks Sir Andrew Burns as new lay chair Legal Business The Bar Standards Board has selected Sir Andrew Burns as its next chair with Baroness Ruth Deech QC due to…
Guest post: A few thoughts on the Butler Sloss controversy Legal Business Lady Butler Sloss, a former and eminent senior judge, with significant experience through a child abuse inquiry (Cleveland) of matters…
Firms face additional partner pensions liability after Supreme Court defines LLP members as ‘workers’ Legal Business Partnerships could now be saddled with a new layer of financial and administrative responsibility after a Supreme Court ruling last…
Bleak reading for all but the biggest law firms in latest Law Society statistics report Legal Business The squeeze on the legal profession is in evidence in the latest annual statistics report from the Law Society, which…
The Bar 1-0 MoJ: Crown court halts serious fraud trial over lack of representation Legal Business In an embarrassing setback for the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) in its long running dispute over legal aid with the…
Law Society lines up TLT’s senior partner to take over as president Sarah Downey The Law Society has today (24 April) announced that TLT Solicitors senior partner Robert Bourns has been elected as the body’s…
‘Why don’t parties and their donors pay to run Parliament?’ MoJ pushes ahead with controversial court fees reform Legal Business Despite fierce accusations from within the senior echelons of the legal profession that the Government has failed to comprehend the…
A&O duo at risk of SRA investigation after criticism of Dahdaleh conduct Jaishree Kalia Two senior litigators from Allen & Overy (A&O) face the possibility of an investigation by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) following…
End of the lawyer glut? Latest stats show fall of 3,000 working solicitors amid profession in flux Legal Business With the impact of the latest cuts to legal aid yet to bite, the number of practising solicitors in the…
Race to provide direct legal services sees Allianz convert to an ABS Sarah Downey Last year they hit your television with an advert comparing the stresses of the daily commute and school run to…
Reforming the reforms: One-year-on Jackson soundings likely to lead to further calls for overhaul of DBAs Sarah Downey The first year bedding down Lord Justice Jackson’s extensive civil litigation reforms was always going to be challenging, but as…
In-house lawyers to be affected by impact of ABS as hundreds of corporates consider conversion Sarah Downey Up to 700 companies, public authorities and charities could currently be considering the business case for applying to become an…
