Industry Insights

Ask most solicitors what they understand by “legal ethics” and you’ll likely hear a version of: “doing the right thing.” It sounds straightforward – until the right thing is inconvenient, [...]

By Ed Marshall Can we, just for five minutes, put AML to the side? Normal service will resume soon, I promise. Here is a question for you: are we, as a profession, becoming so preoccupied with [...]

By Sophie Cisler Internal Audit has long been an integral function in financial services firms, but there is also growing awareness of its value in law firms. I spoke to Mark Penlington, Head of [...]

By Sam Bray Following our recent webinar on wellbeing, we have felt very humbled by how many people have reached out to us to say how useful the session was and how grateful they are for this [...]

By Ed Marshall In our most recent Jonathon Bray webinar, we focused on the wellbeing of solicitors and the profession as a whole. We were joined by guest speakers from several support networks [...]

By Sophie Cisler Like a child on Christmas morning, I was all of a flutter to see the breaking news: LSAG had published long-awaited updates to the guidance. What would be in it, I thought [...]

By Sam Bray In our recent webinar (recording link in our 2 May edition of the COLP Insider newsletter), we tackled an often overlooked yet critically important issue in the legal sector: the [...]

If your firm is within the scope of the Money Laundering Regulations 2017 (MLR 2017), you will be well aware of the importance of AML compliance. The SRA has made it clear: get this wrong and you [...]

By Sophie Cisler We’ve been discussing it for years, haven’t we? Every legal conference, every conversation about the future of our profession – AI is always there, lurking in [...]

The Legal Services Board’s (LSB) latest regulatory performance assessment has caused more than a few waves in the world of legal regulation. Its main target? The SRA, which the LSB accuses of [...]