Industry Insights

Chapter 1 of the SRA Code of Conduct  sets out a number of areas that must be communicated to the client at the outset of each matter. Whilst there is no strict requirement to put this [...]

The SRA has published an update to its Risk Outlook and warns legal professionals of the risks currently facing law firms. The report contains a table of today’s key risks: Misuse of money or [...]

Offering The Osiris Legal team has vast experience in criminal and family work. The firm provides a full legal service to its clients on a privately paying basis.  It also provides an innovative [...]

We have been instructed to search for a senior compliance specialist to join one of Cardiff’s top legal firms. The business is a true “rising star”, and this is a rare [...]

Law firms must carry out extra pre-contractual due diligence, introduce tighter agreement liability clauses and undertake regular reviews of active contracts when outsourcing web marketing such [...]

When I left the law in 2011 to start a compliance consultancy for law firms, Jonathon Bray Legal Services, I perhaps did not appreciate the importance of regular cash flow.  I was more concerned [...]

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COLPs and COFAs are under a duty to keep a record of all compliance failures and to report breaches to the SRA as required.  In the case of “material” (i.e. serious) breaches, as a rule of thumb [...]

Firms intending to host festive client events as part of their marketing strategy this year will shortly be turning their thoughts to venue choices, canapés selections and whether or not the [...]

We talk to Andrew Garbutt, Director of Risk at the SRA Please give a brief background about yourself and explain your role at the SRA. I started working in the Law Society group in 2005 working [...]