Temple Legal Protection has been recognised for the first time in the Chambers Litigation Support Guide 2025, with a listing in the UK Litigation Insurance Underwriters category. The post Temple…
Working in legal finance and compliance can be a lonely experience. Many professionals in this field can find themselves feeling isolated, dealing with unique challenges that colleagues in other departments…
Enhanced lawyer forecasting powered by integrated time recording data helps protect profitability from skyrocketing pay packages, talent attrition, and administrative waste. The post BigHand addresses lawyer utilisation and profitability challenges…
The proportion of consumers choosing unbundled legal services has hit its highest ever rate at just over a fifth, according to research for the Legal Services Consumer Panel. The post…
89% Watson Farley & Williams (WFW) has reported a strong summer trainee retention score of 89%. The City outfit confirmed that 16 of its 18 final-seat trainees will be staying…
Pleaded guilty to assault The bar disciplinary tribunal has reprimanded an unregistered barrister following a late-night altercation at a Nottingham cocktail bar that led to an assault conviction. Benedicte Mabika,…
The Legal Ombudsman has published three of its final decisions in full for the first time, including the names of the firms involved, arguing that the move increases transparency. The…
The head of the infected blood inquiry yesterday called on the SRA to tell solicitors that they should not be charging clients making a claim for compensation. The post Infected…
A senior paralegal has been rebuked for wrongly requesting the release of at least £1.85m to a property developer which later went bust, leaving his law firm to repay buyers.…
Program rapidly modernizes mid-sized law firms over 50% faster with streamlined deployment and enhanced user adoption strategies The post Litera and Fireman launch Foundation Value Accelerator to provide action intelligence…
Your criminal law module could soon be out of date The right to a trial by jury — long seen as a central part of justice in England and Wales…
The Legal Cheek team discuss AI and the future of legal jobs — listen now The Legal Cheek Podcast returns this week as publisher Alex Aldridge and writer Lydia Fontes…
No deal Less than a month after reports emerged of merger talks, Southern England law firms Cripps and Michelmores have confirmed they will not be joining forces. The deal would…
The man who founded now-defunct Stobart Barristers and then bought two well-known criminal law firms has been disqualified from running a law firm in future. The post High-profile non-lawyer firm…
A senior lawyer should be appointed to make sure that first compensation offers to victims of the Post Office Horizon scandal are “full and fair”, the first part of the…