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Leading personal injury law firm Minster Law said yesterday that it has completed a three-year transformation that allows it to run low-value whiplash claims profitably.

The government today announced plans for an extra £20m for civil legal aid – specifically housing and immigration work – the first increase in funding since 1996.

The High Court has taken the almost unprecedented step of withdrawing a notice of intervention into a law firm issued by the Solicitors Regulation Authority.

A former member of the board of the Solicitors Regulation Authority has called for its chair and/or chief executive to resign in the wake of the Axiom Ince report.

Members of the public are more aware than ever about class actions and more positive about their outcomes, research has found.

Listed law firm Gateley said yesterday that it expected “pricing and efficiencies” to mitigate the extra £1.8m that the National Insurance increase is set to cost it.

Make UK, the representative voice of UK manufacturing, has expanded its employment law and HR services by acquiring a Sheffield-based law firm.

The Lady Chief Justice yesterday complained to MPs about the government’s decisions to reduce the digitisation of civil justice and limit sitting days in the criminal courts.

Law firms need to redesign their social media strategies to embrace influencers who “massively outperform” their firms on LinkedIn.

The Irish arm of City giant Simmons & Simmons has become the first of a new breed of law firms that allows solicitors to form partnerships with barristers.