Industry Insights

(EDIT – since this article was originally written in 2012, the regulatory regime for solicitors has had a major overhaul (see SRA Standards and Regulations), but the main thrust of the article [...]

(This is a guest post by Fiona de Feu aka ‘My Compliance Colleague’. Thanks, Fiona!) Spoiler alert! You will not enjoy this article. There’s nothing “feel good” about it, and it’s [...]

So you’ve submitted a DAML…What next? The NCA will probably contact you within 7 days, either for further information or to give or refuse the defence you have requested. If they have [...]

Today is the first Data Privacy Day post-Brexit, and in this post Rachael Eyre looks at the impact on international data flows. While not an awful lot has changed with GDPR (the EU GDPR became [...]

Anyone working in the legal sector will know that commercial disputes are part of corporate life for even the most successful businesses – but they can cause considerable damage when [...]

Non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) have become a risky affair for solicitors. #MeToo threw a spotlight on the role that lawyers play in buying silence from victims of misconduct.  From the lawyer’s [...]

Have you always wanted to work for yourself? Perhaps you are tired of working in a soulless office, fed up with partnership politics, or not being properly paid for the work you bring in. There [...]

The SRA publicity rules (now contained in Standards 8.8-8.9 of the Code of Conduct and its associated guidance) say that unsolicited approaches to members of the public are forbidden. ‘Members of [...]

The 5th Money Laundering Directive came into effect on 10th January 2020. With it came a critically important change to the definition of ‘tax advisers’.  This has the potential to bring many [...]

The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) has published its annual Risk Outlook 2020/2021. It appears they have switched the publishing schedule to roughly coincide with the practising year. [...]