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The chairman of the Bar Council has urged the Bar Standards Board to let it lead work on improving equality, diversity and inclusion in the profession.

Conveyancers are facing a “an environment more hostile than ever before” and clients have “never been so litigious”, the owner of a well-known firm has warned.

Law firm partners have been told that they must dip into their own pockets to replace any shortages on client accounts immediately upon discovery.

A barrister and part-time immigration tribunal judge who was the last of a group of lawyers found guilty of defrauding the Legal Aid Agency has been jailed for three years.

Former clients of the collapsed SSB Group are “confused and uncertain” about an insurer’s offer to stop pursuing them for costs if they assign their claims against the law firm.

Stressed conveyancers must learn about boundaries, tell their managers what they are capable of doing and avoid a situation where work “takes over your life”, the head of residential property at a London law firm has said. Maria Lati said… Read More

A breach of the anti-money laundering rules by Dentons, the world’s largest law firm, was “inadvertent” and did not amount to professional misconduct, the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal has ruled.

A law firm employee who diverted a client’s stamp duty refund to herself – via an unwitting friend’s bank account – has been barred from the profession.

A fee-earner who has not complied with a court order to return documents taken from his former law firm has been handed a four-month suspended jail sentence for contempt.

The Solicitors Regulation Authority revealed yesterday that it has more than 20 live investigations into solicitors and law firms involved in the Post Office scandal.