Tag Results

The Solicitors Regulation Authority has outlined the three key financial ‘warning signs’ against which it will assess firms’ financial stability as a key element of its supervisory work over the next year. It is also to end the need for firms to submit an annual report on non-material rule breaches.

Nearly a fifth of the north-west’s specialist personal injury law firms are considering shutting up shop due to the financial impact of the government’s civil costs reforms, with many predicting huge cuts in their profitability as a result of the new RTA portal fees, new research has revealed.

Legal expenses insurer DAS has finally secured the law firm acquisition that will kickstart its bid to become one of the UK’s top legal services providers. DAS, which is owned by German insurance giant Munich Re, has bought Bristol law firm CW Law.

A company that specialises in helping wealthy business people from Russia and Eastern Europe relocate to London has acquired an alternative business structure licence in order to add legal services to its business services portfolio.

BT’s new legal arm will have more than 100 staff once it is at full strength, its head of legal practice has revealed. Miles Jobling also expressed strong confidence that it would prove an attractive service to those seeking volume services.