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Private equity-backed Express Solicitors has made its fourth acquisition of the year with a deal for a well-known fellow Manchester personal injury firm.

The Solicitors Regulation Authority is conducting monthly “intelligence-led reviews and risk assessments” of so-called accumulator firms, it has emerged.

A US company that earlier this year set up a law firm backed by its AI system has made its first UK hire to manage its expansion both here and elsewhere around the world.

A trainee solicitor and paralegal have been banned from working in the profession following separate convictions that included attempting to engage in sexual communication with a child.

Four leading legal advice charities have expressed their dismay at the government’s failure to accept a single recommendation on improving the legal aid system.

The justice select committee is “deeply concerned” about the government’s approach to legal aid, following a “highly disappointing” response to its critique of the system.

The Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal has refused to lift restrictions on the practising certificate of a solicitor which he failed to show were “punitive in effect”.

A tribunal judge has been given a formal warning for making “disparaging generalisations” about the Roma community to other members of the tribunal.

Solicitors have backed peers in questioning the government’s lack of action on modernising wills, particularly introducing electronic wills.

A law firm that specialises in credit hire litigation has secured a £2m funding package to support a management buyout.