News archive
2025
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– May
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- Credit hire: The truth behind the headlines
- Fee-share law firms continue to attract hundreds of new recruits
- ‘TikTok’ lawyer faces money laundering charges
- In-house barrister elected Bar vice-chair for first time
- Mahmood downgrades recommended 4.75% pay rise for judiciary
- Merricks funder: £23m profit on £46m investment “not reasonable”
- Stamp duty deadline pushed conveyancing fees to “all-time high”
- Arbitral tribunal panels lacking in diversity, IBA finds
- High Court rejects bias claim against SDT panel chair
- Defendant law firms “protecting litigation work” with credit hire row
- Mastercard settlement “very far from a success”, says tribunal
- High Court grants law firm injunction to ban man from office
- NAO: Family justice at risk from “inconsistent political leadership”
- Sixth and biggest acquisition so far for PE-backed Lawfront
- Choosing a reporting accountant
- S&G fights off deductions challenge by 224 ex-clients
- “Eyes-on, hands-off” – law firm boss calms fears over PE investment
- Solicitor “used one bankruptcy to camouflage another”
- Russian litigants return to Commercial Court in force
- Zahawi solicitor “ignored” regulatory duties with email
- PE house outlines ‘sweet equity’ offer to keep law firm staff happy
- Commercial law firm to have name on Everton’s new stadium
- ‘Integrity’ index downgrades law firms that did deals with Trump
- Ex-solicitor cited fake cases in bid to appeal strike-off
- “Not improper” for barrister to compare Israel with Nazi Germany
- Electronic wills at heart of overhaul of 188-year-old law
- Blinded by the light: Can law firms survive the PE gold rush?
- SRA hands out record £4m fine to non-lawyer owner of failed firm
- High Court upholds strike-off for solicitor’s antisemitic tweets
- Private equity boom pushes law firm valuations to “upper end”
- In-house solicitors’ contracts should “incorporate ethical rules”
- Vaginal mesh solicitor to face multiple charges at SDT
- SRA to “ratchet up” AML blitz after £575,000 of fines in six months
- SRA decides against changing who pays for compensation fund
- Veteran barrister disbarred after “prolonged period of incompetence”
- UWO will investigate how jailed ex-solicitor’s wife bought house
- SRA to revise fining guidance on economic crime and drink driving
- Paralegals receive formal recognition with CILEX ‘chartered’ title
- Smaller law firms reject M&A in favour of organic growth
- Conveyancers “should advise on liability from climate risks”
- The COFA role: Balancing responsibility, risk and reality
- Confusion reigns after property information guidance withdrawn
- Law firm “justified” in not promoting salaried partner to equity
- Eversheds staffer created invoices for pro bono case
- CA refuses to hear appeal from man who stalked judge
- Why you should be using AI – but for the boring stuff
- SRA seeks extra £11m as complaints about solicitors soar 20%
- Law firm takes assignment of client’s claim after pay out
- Law school sets minimum “secure” assessments to combat GenAI
- Legal Services Board ratchets up pressure over BSB performance
- Judge condemns “continued saga” of excessive family law costs
- “Challenging” year for PI group as new cases nearly halve
- Newspaper pays class action firm damages for ‘client pressure’ libel
- Revised whiplash tariff jumps final parliamentary hurdle
- Judge condemns lawyers who produced “fake citations” to court
- Conveyancer refuses to give in to one-star scammer
- Knights adds Essex and IFA services in latest acquisition
- Law firms “failing to be proactive on wellbeing”, says IBA
- Exclusive: SRA authorises first AI-only law firm
- Mahmood: SSB and Axiom Ince show need for Legal Services Board
- Rebuke for solicitor who made baseless perjury threat
- Judge strikes down Trump’s “unconstitutional” order targeting law firm
- Building your law firm’s generative AI strategy
- IL4U wins summary judgment in claim brought by founder law firms
- City giant seeks to shift blame for errors that cost client £83m
- Investor points to law firm’s potential in opposing Anexo bid
- SDT rejects solicitor’s “meritless” appeal over undertaking breach
- Why better domestic abuse screening in mediation is long overdue
- High Court criticises City firm for breaching judgment embargo
- Jail for property solicitor who defrauded own firm of £160k
- Family law market grows more strongly than expected
- “Confidence in the future” – listed law firm pays special dividend
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