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…
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…
The Solicitors Regulation Authority has been ordered to make an interim costs payment of £400,000 to the solicitor for former Conservative Chancellor Nadeem Zahawi. The post SRA ordered to make…
Dye & Durham has announced that Stewart Title Indemnity Insurance is now fully available within its Unity® legal platform, giving conveyancers a simpler, faster way to order and manage both…
The failure of the claimants in the ‘Dieselgate’ group litigation to “curb the extent of the involvement of innumerable lawyers” is to be marked by a costs penalty, the High…
The Solicitors Regulation Authority has begun making emergency payments to clients of collapsed law firm PM Law, it revealed yesterday. The post PM Law clients receiving files and emergency payments…
A solicitor’s 50-year legal career has ended with being struck off after he misled a mortgage lender about when completion on a conveyancing transaction had taken place. The post Veteran…
Google AI overviews are having a “major detrimental impact” on the efforts of legal advice agencies to get good information out to consumers, MPs were told this week. The post…
For years, many law firms have treated ID verification as a box-ticking exercise. Run a liveness check, match a face to a document and move on. But that is no…
As law firms face increasing pressure on profitability, retention, and performance, episode 28 sees the return of Simon McCrum, who shares practical guidance from his latest book on the behaviours…
Aquarius Reporting and Qanooni have announced a strategic partnership aimed at helping law firms adopt legal AI with confidence and clearly evidence its impact on productivity, cost, and capacity. The…
Whilst we know professional learning has always been part of career paths, to hire, retain and keep talent, AI needs to be embedded as a core part of this training.…
A self-employed advocate who lied in an attendance note about a court hearing in an attempt to cover up the fact he had missed it, has been struck off. The…
The rising tide of complaints to the Legal Ombudsman continues to accelerate, with 37% more in the last quarter of 2025 compared to a year earlier and the most in…