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S&G fights off deductions challenge by 224 ex-clients

The new Senior Costs Judge has rejected a major challenge to how Slater & Gordon charged personal injury clients, finding it provided enough information to them.

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“Eyes-on, hands-off” – law firm boss calms fears over PE investment

Lawyers should not believe “everything you read” about the negatives of being acquired by private equity, according to the managing director of a Midlands law firm bought last autumn.

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Solicitor “used one bankruptcy to camouflage another”

A veteran solicitor who used the existence of his first bankruptcy in 1993 to “camouflage the existence” and the need to report his second in 2014 has been struck off.

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Zahawi solicitor “ignored” regulatory duties with email

The solicitor for former Conservative MP Nadeem Zahawi either “ignored or dismissed his regulatory responsibilities” in trying to stop publication of an email he sent, the SDT has decided.

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In a legal market where tradition collides with transformation, law firms of every size and stripe are being approached almost daily by private equity houses.


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The world of legal compliance is a pressured one, with few positions carrying the weight of personal responsibility quite like that of the COFA.