Industry Insights

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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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 [...]

On 16 October 2013 the SRA held its first conference for law firm Compliance Officers, entitled “The key to compliance”, at the NEC in Birmingham. Around 500 delegates – mainly COLPs [...]

When the SRA launched its “Risk Outlook” in July there was no doubt that the most significant risk identified was financial difficulty/stability. At the heart of the matter is [...]

Over the summer the Legal Service Board (LSB) conducted a survey of the 193 Alternative Business Structures (ABS) licence holders (38 CLC and the remainder SRA). The survey set out to gather [...]

On 31 July 2013, Edgbaston-based firm Tyndallwoods Solicitors became the latest Alternative Business Structure (ABS) to be authorised by the SRA.  The new structure means that the firm can bring [...]

The SRA’s decision not to ban Personal Injury inducements and incentives has put the cat amongst the pigeons, hasn’t it?  And now APIL’s Chief Executive, Deborah Evans, has [...]

  If you have a bit of time over the weekend, this video of futurologist Ray Kurzweil speaking at the recent “Future of Legal Technology” event is highly recommended.  See also [...]

File reviews are an important part of that supervision system – nobody has yet devised a better way to quickly and effectively monitor files.  Here are our seven tips to help COLPs conduct [...]