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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 [...]

Off the back of our recent webinar with Gary Horswell from Ntegrity, here is a practical, step-by-step way to prepare your solicitors PII proposal so you’re not firefighting in the week of [...]

By Liz Bond Rule 3.3 of the SRA Accounts Rules, which prohibits the use of a client account as a banking facility, often causes considerable stress and raises a number of questions. This is why [...]

By Sophie Cisler It’s a simple question, and a seemingly simple answer. Who can conduct litigation? Answer: Authorised individuals as per the Legal Services Act 2007. And yet, it’s really not an [...]

Welcome back to COLP Insider. Lots to cover this month — and a date for your diary. We’re hosting a free webinar with Gary Horswell (Ntegrity) on Wednesday 1 October at 12pm: a practical debrief [...]

By Sophie Cisler I was excited speak at the Legal Compliance Collective discussion forum earlier this week on the topic Solicitors’ Ethics – Where Are We Going? We’ve been wringing our [...]

By Sophie Cisler Hurrah, it’s finally here! Trailed for the last several months, the government has now published the draft amendments to the Money Laundering Regulations (the consultation paper [...]

Professional indemnity insurance (PII) renewals are always a nervous time for law firms. With premiums remaining one of the top three overheads for most practices, getting the best possible terms [...]

Welcome back — I hope you managed a proper break over the summer. The regulators didn’t! This edition tackles the SRA’s high-volume claims thematic review (and that “exceptional” [...]