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A trainee solicitor who started a petition calling for SQE reform has rebuked the former home secretary Suella Braverman KC ...
Telling clients how to complain not just at the start of a matter but again at the end sounds harmless. For law firms that live and die by their client work, it is a distraction.
The firm reported this week that net profit in the 2024/25 year had fallen 12% to £24.6m, with profit per equity partner coming down from £655,000 to £601,000. This was on the back of revenue ...
A solicitor at a practice that describes itself as ‘London’s top law firm’ has been rebuked for allowing a ‘poorly drafted’ ...
An old Fleet Street adage has it that ‘Good news is not news’. That’s a journalistic principle to which I generally adhere.
Authenticity of posts on new Telegram channel not possible to verify.
A group claiming to be hackers who stole more than two million records from the Legal Aid Agency (LAA) has threatened to ...
The regulator says that evidence from its training records and reviews of the legal sector show that solicitors completed at ...
Of all those lawyers whose education will be disrupted by AI, trainees and junior lawyers are the most affected: their most ...
Barbara Mills, chair of the Bar Council, noted that the incident is 'latest in a series of issues with the courts' IT systems ...
One distinguished solicitor with good cause to remember the year very well is Andrew Holroyd (OBE, CBE), who was president of the Law Society of England and Wales back in 2007/08. Andrew is this month ...
SDT also orders solicitor pay £50,000 costs and imposes practice restrictions following unintentional failings.