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One of the country’s leading non-solicitor probate providers will today be unveiled as the newest alternative business structure. Kings Court Trust has chosen to be regulated by the Council for Licensed Conveyancers.

A firm in Plymouth has become the first criminal law practice to become an alternative business structure as the pace of new licences from the Solicitors Regulation Authority continues to step up.

Third-party litigation funders thinking of investing in law firms to avoid liability for adverse costs will have to try their luck in front of the court after an important report on contingency fees refused to make a recommendation on whether this should be possible.

A corporate/commercial solicitor has launched the latest alternative business structure with a view to forming partnerships with other professionals. Joanne Bligh has set up Thinking Legal in Birmingham.

The legal market is in danger of being consumed by the same doom and gloom that taunts the UK economy. For years the media have filled our TVs and newspapers with stories of fear, uncertainty and doubt. While some of the stories may be true, many are fiction. There is a real danger we are consumed by the fiction and allow negative predictions to become a self-fulfilling prophecy, where banks stop lending and consumers stop spending. A familiar story? We end up acting out the very scenario we want to avoid. I see the same pattern emerging in the legal world.