The Law Society and the Bar Council have strongly attacked plans by the Legal Services Board to increase its budget by 14% to ...

The proportion of law firms switching insurer for lower premiums at last year’s October renewal rose significantly with ...

The Legal Ombudsman is bucking the wider trend of requiring staff to spend more time in the office and is instead halving it ...

The High Court has rejected a solicitor and his client’s bid to challenge the Judicial Conduct Investigations Office’s ...

The evidence “does not support anxiety about standards” for qualifying as a barrister, despite rising numbers seeking to do ...

East Midlands law firm Nelsons has completed its third local acquisition, in the wake of its private equity owner adding ...

The SRA yesterday handed out a fine and a rebuke for breaching undertakings, one relating to property transactions and the other to a divorce matter.

Private equity-backed Lawfront has made its fifth major acquisition and expanded to the South-East by acquiring Kent firm ...

The director of a law firm and the firm itself have each been fined £25,000 for a series of compliance failures, including ...

Mid-tier practices are looking to grow both organically, or by a merger/takeover, and our survey revealed that 17% of firms ...

The profession has come out strongly against Legal Ombudsman plans for a 10% budget hike, arguing that throwing more money at ...