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A Chartered Accountant by training, Sean brings over 29 years of experience with the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) and the Law Society. He concluded his career at the SRA as Head of [...]

Hello again, This week’s edition is more treat than trick, we hope. We share our takeaways from the SRA COLP COFA conference, and turn our attention to what we don’t know about the [...]

By Ed Marshall At the risk of making you utter the phrase “not another AML blog post”, welcome to another anti-money laundering blog post. The idea for this one came from our recent visit to the [...]

By Sophie Cisler It’s been a bit of a wild ride in legal services regulation recently. We’ve had the Axiom Ince and now SSB reports, with deep criticisms of the SRA. Only a few weeks ago, the [...]

The COLP COFA conference always gives a useful into what the regulator is worried about, where supervision is heading, and how firms should respond. Here are the headlines we took away. 1) The [...]

Hello! In this week’s COLP Insider we’ve got three fresh blogs to chew over: how a strong compliance culture becomes a genuine competitive edge; why you shouldn’t treat clients like a [...]

By Samantha Bray Shutting the doors of a firm you’ve built or led is unlikely to feel like a compliance task. It’s much more personal. You’ll feel the weight of responsibility to clients, your [...]

Mergers, ownership changes, insolvencies and outsourcing projects all create pressure to move large numbers of client files at speed. It’s tempting to treat the exercise like warehousing: count [...]

By Samantha Bray In a sector where reputation is everything, your ethics are your competitive advantage. Working in risk and compliance, we spend a lot of time helping firms navigate regulations, [...]

Happy Friday! Here’s what’s inside this edition of COLP Insider. We’ve got three fresh blogs to get your team thinking and acting. Sophie tackles the Mazur fallout with a calm, practical lens on [...]