Overcoming the challenges associated with economic instability looks set to trouble individuals and businesses alike in 2023. Increased wage demands look certain to add to the rising cost of [...]
Litigation funding is an excellent option for many dispute resolution lawyers and their clients, especially when dealing with high-value or complex cases. It can help bring a successful outcome [...]
Let’s start with a more basic question: do you actually have a written payment of interest policy for money held in a client account? Under the old rules, that was mandatory. Under the revised [...]
We were delighted to contribute the concluding chapter to this new title from Globe Law and Business. We were asked to write about ‘Innovation and the opportunities in flexible [...]
The new Register of Overseas Entities presents solicitors with the opportunity to develop a practice as verification agents for new and existing clients. On paper, the work itself may not [...]
A couple of recent posts on the r/uklaw forum invited lawyers to share their horror stories of mistakes they had made early in their careers. It made me think back to my early days of practice [...]
Our October webinar (SRA sexual misconduct guidance and the regulation of solicitors’ private lives) proved to be very popular. We were very fortunate to be joined by Geoffrey Williams KC, a [...]
On 1 September the SRA issued sexual misconduct guidance, an important piece of guidance for lawyers and those working in regulated firms. It doesn’t paint the legal profession in a good light, [...]
There is no doubt that the legal sector, as with many other sectors, has recently undergone a period of extensive change and reform, with what might have taken decades to happen taking place over [...]
The thought of an SRA money laundering audit may fill you with dread. But the regulators are getting more proactive about their role as AML supervisor. Many firms have had the pleasure of [...]
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