The private equity backer of serious injury law firm Fletchers has committed to another four or five years after announcing a continuation fund transaction. The post Private equity commits to…
A solicitor coroner has been struck off for underplaying the seriousness of a criminal investigation he was facing when reporting it to the Chief Coroner’s Office. The post Coroner struck…
The House of Lords last week backed government plans to expand eligibility to become Crown prosecutors to CILEX lawyers and other non-solicitors and barristers. The post Peers back widening eligibilty…
The Legal Services Board should increase its oversight of the SRA to ensure the failures around Axiom Ince and SSB Group are not repeated, the Law Society has said. The…
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The principles that govern a child’s post-adoption contact with his or her birth family have developed from a position that there should be a complete break at the point of…
Sarah Rapson succeeded Paul Philip as chief executive of the Solicitors Regulation Authority last November. So what has this high-flying public servant learned in her first 100 days? – Read…
Firms are increasingly acknowledging the need for alternative senior roles – positions that offer influence and recognition without the obligations of ownership. The post Legal director: an alternative to partnership…
Microsoft has disclosed details of a new version of the ClickFix social engineering tactic in which the attackers trick unsuspecting users into running commands that carry out a Domain Name…
Researchers warn that a critical vulnerability patched this week in BeyondTrust Remote Support is being exploited in the wild to compromise self-hosted deployments, including Bomgar remote support appliances, which included…
Zscaler’s acquisition of SquareX comes as competitors like CrowdStrike and Palo Alto Networks are also investing in secure browser technologies. – Read More
South Korea’s data protection authority has handed down a combined KRW 36 billion (approximately US$25 million) in administrative fines to the local subsidiaries of three global luxury houses, after finding…
Developers have resolved a legacy flaw in the widely used libpng open-source library that existed since the software was released nearly 30 years ago. The heap buffer overflow in libpng…