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Hi and happy Friday! This week’s COLP Insider has three new articles for you, each one tackling a different (but very familiar) compliance headache. We start with mistakes. Most errors in [...]

Alison didn’t go looking for trouble. Trouble came looking for her. When she agreed to become her firm’s COFA, it felt like the sensible, grown-up thing to do. She was a salaried partner at [...]

The SRA’s recent thematic review of compliance officers is one of those documents that looks modest on the page but has significant importance in practice. If your firm has ever treated COLP/COFA [...]

The cover-up is the killer. That sounds obvious until you look at how these cases actually unfold. A deadline is overlooked. A hearing is missed. A letter isn’t sent. A difficult file quietly [...]

Welcome to this week’s edition of COLP Insider. There’s a lot going on in the compliance world at the moment. It feels like the legal profession is edging into a new phase. A new SRA Chief [...]

Here at JBL HQ we had an internal discussion this week about conflicts of interest in law firms. How they are deceptively simple in principle, endlessly awkward in practice, and tend to surface [...]

By Sophie Cisler There’s a reason political scandals are so compelling. They tend to expose very human failings: assumption, trust and over-familiarity. And while most of us aren’t appointing [...]

The SRA has published a Warning Notice on “‘no win, no fee’ and other fee arrangements in high-volume consumer claims“. It is aimed squarely at firms (and individuals) doing high-volume [...]

Hello, and welcome back to COLP Insider. This edition has a distinct client money flavour. The Ministry of Justice has launched a consultation on interest earned on client account, with proposals [...]

By Samantha Bray We all like to think that the red lines are obvious. You don’t fake a signature. You don’t “tidy up” an attendance note after the event and pretend it was written at the time. [...]