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Niche insurance law firm creates one-stop ABS for professional indemnity claims
Tuesday, 14 May 2013A defendant insurance law firm is to join forces with commercial claims handlers and loss adjusters within an alternative business structure to provide an outsourced service to insurance companies for professional indemnity claims.
Tags: ABS, Alternative business structures
Posted in Alternative business structures, Latest news, Market monitor
North-west ABS targets national practice after London launch
Friday, 10 May 2013A top north-west alternative business structure (ABS) has continued its expansion by moving into London. Fresh from its ABS licence approval in January, Stephensons is seizing on the “flexibility” of its new structure to muscle in on the London conveyancing market.
Tags: ABS, Alternative business structures
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Quindell: no reason for share price plummet
Friday, 10 May 2013AIM-listed alternative business structure Quindell Portfolio has been forced to issue a statement that it knows of “no valid reason” for the sudden 45% fall in its share price. It was trading at 13.25p at the end of last week, but since issuing its 2012 results on Tuesday, the price had fallen to 7.34p.
Tags: ABS, Alternative business structures
Posted in Latest news, Market monitor
Interest swap mis-selling claims company eyes ABS status
Tuesday, 30 April 2013A claims management company specialising in interest-rate swap mis-selling could become an alternative business structure in order to litigate its own cases. All Square Treasury has just announced the appointment of a legal director.
Tags: ABS, Alternative business structures, claims management companies, CMC, personal injury
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Jordans recruits senior in-house lawyer to spearhead ABS
Monday, 29 April 2013Corporate services provider Jordans has turned to the head of legal at a leading business process outsourcer to spearhead its planned alternative business structure. Debbie Farman, formerly legal director of Vertex, will lead a team of lawyers, paralegals and corporate compliance experts.
Tags: ABS, Alternative business structures
Posted in Alternative business structures, Latest news, Market monitor
Exclusive: legal advice charity becomes first not-for-profit to set up an ABS
Friday, 26 April 2013A legal advice charity in Leicester has become the first not-for-profit organisation to set up an alternative business structure (ABS), Legal Futures can reveal. The Community Advice and Law Service has won approval to launch Castle Park Solicitors Community Interest Company.
Tags: ABS, Alternative business structures, not-for-profit
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‘Click and collect’ law firm eyes major expansion after ABS licence award
Wednesday, 24 April 2013A law firm offering ‘click and collect’ legal services plans to double in size after securing its alternative business structure licence. Leeds firm Winston Solicitors originated as an online-only legal practice from managing partner Jonathan Winston’s spare room 10 years ago.
Tags: ABS, Alternative business structures
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SRA set to relax rules on non-material breaches as nearly 1,000 firms face COLP/COFA action
Wednesday, 24 April 2013Requiring all 10,000 law firms to report non-material breaches to the Solicitors Regulation Authority is “unsustainable and cannot be justified”, the regulator’s board will be told today. Meanwhile, the number of firms and individuals facing action over COLP/COFA nomination failures has risen to 928.
Tags: ABS, Alternative business structures, COFA, COLP, compliance officer for finance and administration, compliance officer for legal practice, Legal Services Act, Solicitors Regulation Authority
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Mortimer takes helm at legal expenses insurer's ABS
Monday, 22 April 2013Kathryn Mortimer, head of legal services for the DAS UK Group, has been named managing director of its new law firm, DAS Law. DAS Law was created after the legal expenses insurer was granted an alternative business structure licence.
Tags: ABS, Alternative business structures
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SRA plans for ABS fining guidance branded “premature”
Monday, 22 April 2013Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) plans to issue guidance on the financial penalties it will impose on alternative business structures (ABSs) and those working in them are premature, the Law Society has claimed.
Tags: ABS, Alternative business structures, Solicitors Regulation Authority
Posted in Alternative business structures, Latest news, Solicitors