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Regulate lawyers by “competence not title”, chair of CILEx Regulation says
Friday, 1 May 2015Alan Kershaw, chair of CILEx Regulation, has said lawyers should be regulated “by competence, not by title” and urged the different branches of the profession not to give up on common training.
Tags: CILEX Regulation, comparison websites, Education and training
Posted in Latest news, Legal Executives, Regulation
Paralegal hopes to be first solicitor admitted through ‘equivalent means’ route
Friday, 20 March 2015Paralegal Shaun Lawler has said he hopes to be the first solicitor admitted to the profession through the ‘equivalent means’ route rather a traditional training contract.
Tags: Education and training
Posted in Latest news, Regulation, Solicitors
BSB eyes loosening constraints on design of both BPTC and pupillages
Monday, 23 February 2015The Bar Standards Board has said that there is no need for the Bar Professional Training Course to be delivered as “one, integrated course”, and is also set to give chambers and employers more freedom to design pupillages.
Tags: bar professional training course, bar standards board, Education and training, pupillages
Posted in Barristers, Latest news, Regulation
“Unbalanced promotion of competition” puts lawyers’ ethical standards at risk
Wednesday, 26 November 2014The “unbalanced promotion of competition” in the legal services market “carries dangers” and puts ethical standards at risk, a major report based on a survey of 966 solicitors and barristers has concluded.
Tags: Education and training, Legal Services Act
Posted in Latest news, Legal Services Act
Fifth of law firms admit to substandard service
Thursday, 18 September 2014A fifth of law firms admit to providing a substandard service at some point in the past year, with extra training for staff the common response, Solicitors Regulation Authority research has revealed.
Tags: competence, Education and training, Solicitors Regulation Authority
Posted in Competence, Latest news, Solicitors
Latest SRA move to slash red tape could boost number of training contracts
Wednesday, 27 November 2013Much of the red tape around the training of solicitors would be swept away if proposals before the Solicitors Regulation Authority are adopted, including abandoning a ceiling on the number of trainees firms are allowed to take on.
Tags: Education and training, LETR, Solicitors Regulation Authority
Posted in hrtraining, Latest news, Solicitors
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Five key issues to consider when adopting an AI-based legal tech
As generative AI starts to play a bigger role in our working lives, there are some key issues that your law firm needs to consider when adopting an AI-based legal tech.
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.
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