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Law firm and charity join forces in groundbreaking ABS
Wednesday, 1 October 2014Hampshire law firm Moore Blatch has teamed up with national spinal injury charity Aspire to launch the first alternative business structure of its kind. Aspire Law will open for business on 3 November, offering a specialist service to people with spinal cord injuries.
Tags: ABS, Alternative business structures
Posted in Alternative business structures, Latest news, Market monitor
Legal recruitment consultant sets up commercial law ABS
Tuesday, 30 September 2014Stuart Gillespie, founder of recruitment company G2 Legal, has set up a commercial law alternative business structure with his in-house solicitor, Lucy Tarrant. They are partners in Cognitive Law LLP.
Tags: ABS, Alternative business structures, commercial law
Posted in Alternative business structures, Latest news, Market monitor
North-west ABSs post strong results as Slater & Gordon eyes Welsh acquisition
Friday, 26 September 2014Two north-west alternative business structures (ABSs) have announced record results, while Slater & Gordon’s next potential acquisition, and first in Wales, has emerged.
Tags: ABS, Alternative business structures
Posted in Latest news, Market monitor
Revealed: SRA seeks five-fold increase in fining power
Wednesday, 24 September 2014The Solicitors Regulation Authority has reined in its ambitions for massive internal powers to fine solicitors and ‘traditional’ law firms, applying to increase the current £2,000 limit to £10,000.
Tags: ABS, Alternative business structures, fining powers, Legal Services Act, Legal Services Board, Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal, Solicitors Regulation Authority
Posted in Alternative business structures, Latest news, Solicitors
Law Society accuses SRA of helping large accountancy firms over others
Monday, 22 September 2014Solicitors Regulation Authority plans to make it easier for multi-disciplinary practices to be licensed as alternative business structures will give the large accountancy firms a competitive advantage, the Law Society has claimed.
Tags: ABS, Alternative business structures, Law Society, MDP, Multi-disciplinary practices, Solicitors Regulation Authority
Posted in Alternative business structures, Latest news, Solicitors
Legal Ombudsman outlines test for dealing with complaints about MDPs
Friday, 19 September 2014The Legal Ombudsman has introduced a policy for dealing with complaints about organisations which provide non-legal as well as legal services, such as some alternative business structures and, shortly, accountants who offer probate advice.
Tags: ABS, Alternative business structures, complaints, Legal Ombudsman, Legal Services Act, LeO, MDP, multi-disciplinary practice, separate business rule
Posted in Alternative business structures, Latest news, Legal Ombudsman
Personal injury to blame for Co-operative Legal Services losses
Friday, 5 September 2014Falling revenue from personal injury work is the reason for the £5.1m loss announced by Co-operative Legal Services (CLS) yesterday, managing director Matt Howells has said.
Tags: ABS, Alternative business structures, Co-operative Legal Services, personal injury
Posted in Latest news, Market monitor
SRA mulls scrapping COLP/COFA regime for small firms
Thursday, 4 September 2014The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) is to review whether the requirement for small law firms to have compliance officers is “overkill”, it emerged today.
Tags: ABS, Alternative business structures, COFA, COLP, compliance officer for finance and administration, compliance officer for legal practice, MDP, Solicitors Regulation Authority
Posted in Latest news, Solicitors
Co-operative Legal Services makes £5m loss in first half of 2014
Thursday, 4 September 2014Co-operative Legal Services (CLS) has announced an operating loss of £5.1m in the first half of 2014, a 70% increase on last year. However, there is no sign of the Co-operative Group selling it off.
Tags: ABS, Alternative business structures, Co-operative Legal Services
Posted in Alternative business structures, Latest news, Market monitor
Global wealth consultancy launches ABS
Wednesday, 27 August 2014Oracle Capital Group, a global family and wealth consultancy based in Luxembourg, is launching an ABS. The aim is to offer legal advice to its international clients, many of whom are entrepreneurs or business owners conducting transactions in or relocating to the UK.
Tags: Alternative business structures
Posted in Alternative business structures, Latest news, Market monitor
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Bulk litigation – not always working in consumers interests
For consumers to get the benefit, bulk litigation needs to be done well, and we are increasingly concerned that there are significant problems in some areas of this market.
ABSs, cost and audits – fixing regulation after Axiom Ince
A feature of law firm collapses and frauds has sometimes been the over-concentration of power in outdated and overburdened systems of control.
The new sexual harassment law: first among equals?
If there is a case for enhancing compensation for sexual harassment cases, then surely there is an equally strong case for enhancing compensation for other forms of harassment?
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