A leading costs lawyer has launched a tech platform to help ensure that clients “genuinely understand” and consent to the costs involved in their cases. The post Platform aims to…
Lawyers are bringing far fewer but “better evidenced” complaints on behalf of clients to the Financial Ombudsman Service, it said yesterday. The post Lawyers making “fewer but better” complaints to…
An ex-barrister who failed to disclose he had been disbarred has failed in a challenge to the Immigration Advice Authority’s refusal to register his firm. The post Judge rejects disbarred…
The proposed Interest on Lawyers’ Client Accounts scheme is being framed as a sensible, international, “tried and tested” way for the profession to help fund a justice system under strain.…
5 February 2026 DASLS has prepared a robust and comprehensive response to the latest proposal by the Ministry of Justice to use interest generated by law firms on deposits of…
Onboarding with confidence isn’t just about identifying criminal risk among your clients, it’s also about ensuring the very system you use to onboard these individuals is secure and reliable. The…
AI Goliath Anthropic looks to shake things up as stock market reacts Anthropic, one of the biggest names in US artificial intelligence, is edging into the legal market with a…
Reports had become ‘distraction’ Brad Karp Brad Karp, the longtime chairman of Paul Weiss, has stepped down from his leadership role at the firm after his name appeared in the…
Must not replace human judgement As criminal courts buckle under sustained pressure, an independent review has urged the adoption of AI to improve efficiency and reduce mounting backlogs. The second…
Client concentration or over-dependence now counts as a top strategic risk for 26% of firms. Cross-selling is an antidote – a way to bolster revenue resilience without relying on client…
The “sheer number” of criminal legal aid firms is “unsustainable” and there is merit in “some form of consolidation”, Sir Brian Leveson has recommended. The post Leveson: Number of criminal…
A law firm has won permission to judicially review a decision by the Legal Ombudsman to award a former client £66,000 in compensation and refunded or waived legal fees. The…
Artificial intelligence will create a “huge dividing line” between innovative and conservative law firms, the founder of a Sussex litigation practice has predicted. The post AI to create “dividing line…
The SRA has intervened into 11 law firms that between them have 30 trading names following the sudden closure on Monday of the PM Law group.. The post SRA intervenes…
A UK in-house legal team has cut contract review time by 60% after piloting an AI-assisted drafting and review tool embedded directly in Microsoft Word. The post In-house team cuts…