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The battle of RBG: listed legal business fires solicitor founder

8 January 2025

The board of listed legal business RBG Holdings has terminated founder Ian Rosenblatt’s consultancy agreement amid accusations that he is setting up another law firm.


KPMG to break new ground by launching ABS in America

8 January 2025

KPMG is set to become the first of the Big Four accountancy firms to set up a regulated law firm in the US after applying for a licence in the state that allows non-lawyer owners.


Regulators accused of doing “nothing” to improve client-care letters

8 January 2025

It is “an indictment” on all the legal regulators that “nothing substantial” has been done to tackle the problem of “complex and difficult to read” client-care letters.


Paralegal disqualified for attendance notes of calls he didn’t make

8 January 2025

A paralegal who did not make the dozens of phone calls he recorded in attendance notes has been disqualified. He also reallocated his files to colleagues without telling them.


Exclusive: Major consumer group launches law firm

7 January 2025

The Octopus Group, the £13bn financial services and energy business, has launched a law firm to handle probate and estate administration work, Legal Futures can reveal.


GLD discriminated against senior lawyer on caring career break

7 January 2025

The Government Legal Department discriminated against a senior lawyer by excluding her from a cost-of-living payment because she was on a career break at the time.


Suspended suspension for solicitor who fabricated email

7 January 2025

A solicitor who dishonestly created and backdated a letter to the landlord of a vulnerable client has been handed a 12-month suspension, suspended for 24 months.


SRA imposes control order on CILEX lawyer who misled lender client

7 January 2025

A CILEX lawyer who misled her lender client so as to complete a residential property transaction has been made subject to a control order by the SRA.


SRA issues £1.5m in fines since enhanced power came on stream

6 January 2025

The Solicitors Regulation Authority has used the enhanced fining power to issue more than £1.5m fines on solicitors in its first two years, new figures have shown.


Blacker fails in challenge to Inner Temple’s membership refusal

6 January 2025

Alan Blacker – the struck-off solicitor once dubbed by a judge as dressing “like something out of Harry Potter” – has failed in a challenge to a decision refusing him membership of the Bar.

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