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A senior costs specialist at Slater & Gordon has failed in his appeal against a ruling that he had not been unfairly dismissed and was not harassed at work.

AIM-listed firm Keystone Law is “moving up the food chain” in terms of the quality of lawyers it is recruiting, which is helping to drive turnover and profit, it said yesterday.

A solicitor and former recruiter, and founder of a law firm which works entirely for recruitment consultancies, has launched an online platform to protect them from disputes.

Members of the Law Society’s ruling council are to be paid £2,050 a year on top of expenses, if a motion is approved at next month’s AGM.

The three solicitors whose firms were shut down last year after being named in a Daily Mail undercover investigation are to face the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal.

Barrister and former shadow justice minister Andy Slaughter was yesterday elected as the new chair of the justice select committee.

The latest law firm to embrace employee ownership – also one of the largest – did so after turning down private equity offers worth “millions of pounds”, its chief executive has revealed.

More high-profile figures have expressed their concern at the Bar Standards Board’s plan to impose a new positive duty on barristers to act in a way that “advances” equality, diversity and inclusion.

An experienced partner who failed to give a divorce client competent advice, leading to costs orders against the client, herself and her firm, has been rebuked.

The UK’s legal market remains “an economic powerhouse”, with exports of legal services reaching £7.25bn in 2022, an increase of more than £1.1bn since 2018.