News archive
2025
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- Exclusive: Australian firm eyes major UK expansion with PE backing
- SRA: Law firm’s work for warlord was not improper
- Paralegal to pay £20k in costs for “hopeless” claim against law firm
- Law firm avoids tribunal referral over PEP due diligence failures
- Law Society research highlights its TA6 failures
- Tribunal clears Daily Mail sting solicitor of misconduct
- In-house solicitor fined for offensive nicknames and emails
- AI and data-driven approaches to content marketing for law firms
- Trump escalates attack on lawyers with disciplinary threat
- Legal threat to US firm in London over “u-turn on helping trans man”
- Whiplash tariff to rise on 31 May but fixed costs review delayed
- Conveyancers warned over amending contracts ahead of SDLT deadline
- MR: “Very disappointing” end to court modernisation programme
- Congratulations on your engagement: improving social media performance
- SRA used “prejudicial hearsay evidence” in failed prosecution
- City giant fined £465k for sanctions breach by Russian arm
- Sidhu disbarred and attacked for “abusing power to perpetrate abuse”
- Beringer: No rules force law firms to take on questionable clients
- KC removed from panel hearing challenge to Scottish Bar rules
- Anti-corruption champion calls for offence targeting lawyer enablers
- Top family firm “would be prejudiced” by split trial in negligence claim
- City solicitor suspended from practice for stalking conviction
- Law Society among groups condemning Trump for targeting lawyers
- The rise of consultant lawyers and the future of legal services
- Court allows City giant to progress ex-client’s claim on assignment
- Trump attacks “global law firms” as top UK names face DEI probe
- Complaining to the SRA? Don’t expect a quick reply
- Litigation funders continue to pour money into market
- Don’t be too “seduced” by AI, lawyers warned
- Female legal team explores options over “sexist” judge
- Partner who fabricated documents he gave to SRA struck off
- Solicitor who misled firm about client loans fails in strike-off appeal
- AI in the legal profession: how soon will it make an impact?
- Tribunal sends message over sexual harassment at the Bar
- Lawyer groups back stronger regulation of litigation funding
- Accountants set to start administering oaths
- Reynolds corrects official record over calling himself a solicitor
- Government commits to continuing lawtech push
- London office of top US firm fined £300k for AML failures
- Lawyers worried by over-reliance on SRA discretion post Dentons
- CLC deprecates “apology” by disqualified conveyancer
- Judge temporarily blocks Trump order targeting Clinton’s lawyers
- Why now is the right time for mentoring in lawtech
- Court: Solicitors’ breaches of AML rules “strict liability offences”
- “Clear evidence” that solicitor apprenticeships aid social mobility
- Costs judge allows £700 an hour in biggest departure from guidelines
- AI will allow conveyancers “to resume role of trusted advisors”
- SRA’s Philip says retirement plan predated Axiom Ince
- Solicitor cannot base victimisation claim on firm’s report to SRA
- City law firm takes action over “anti-Islam” HR advisor
- Investment in UK lawtech hit £140m last year
- Thousands of privileged documents disclosed in “unprecedented” error
- Firm and two partners fined £50k for offering banking facility
- Black barristers face a “concrete ceiling”, says BBN chair
- Judge throws out skeleton argument for being three times too long
- Digital marketing for law firms in 2025
- MP: SRA needs to be empowered to crack down on lawfare
- High-profile conveyancer “transferring shares” post-disqualification
- Government seeks power to provide legal advice in employment disputes
- Campaigners call for single supervisor of legal sector’s AML activities
- High Court reinstates negligence claim against top family law firm
- AI in claims management: Help or hindrance?
- LSB tells regulators to improve lawyers’ ethical standards
- Client account interest drives rising profits at SME law firms
- Regional mergers and another PE-backed deal in latest M&A
- Barrister who harassed woman at party suspended for three months
- Thousands of motor finance claims can be brought via omnibus forms
- City solicitors hit out at SRA’s “instinct to overregulate”
- Litigation funder awarded £2.1m on assigned claim
- Solicitor’s joy as miscarriage campaign set to succeed
- High-profile conveyancer disqualified for misleading 300 students
- Listed law firm makes 23rd and biggest acquisition to date
- Fee-earner banned for misleading firm over Law Society accreditation
- Will AI replace lawyers or enhance their work?
- Claimant firms at odds as judge refuses group order for £18bn PPI case
- “Disruptive” solicitor ordered to pay SRA costs of £20,000
- Two firms rebuked for residual balances as charity launches campaign
- LSB chair steps down less than halfway through term
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