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Goodbye Fellows, hello Chartered Legal Executives
Tuesday, 31 January 2012The Institute of Legal Executives was formally presented with its Royal Charter yesterday, transforming Fellows of the Institute into Chartered Legal Executives. The charter protects the title of ILEX members for the first time.
Tags: Chartered Institute of Legal Executives, CILEX, ILEX, Institute of Legal Executives
Posted in Latest news, Legal Executives
Queen grants ILEX historic Royal Charter
Thursday, 13 October 2011The Queen has granted the Institute of Legal Executives a Royal Charter, meaning that in future Fellows of ILEX will have a protected title – ‘chartered legal executive’. It will also change its name to the Chartered Institute of Legal Executives.
Tags: ILEX, Institute of Legal Executives
Posted in Legal Executives, News
Bar Council fails governance test again while Law Society goes to the wire
Monday, 26 September 2011The Bar Council is once again not compliant with the rules on ensuring the independence of its regulatory arm, the Legal Services Board has decided – while the Law Society’s compliance remains unresolved. But the Bar Council has been given one more year to get its house in order.
Tags: Association of Costs Lawyers, Bar Council, bar standards board, Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys, ILEX, Institute of Legal Executives, Institute of Trade Mark Attorneys, Law Society, Legal Services Board, Solicitors Regulation Authority
Posted in Barristers, Legal Services Board, News, Solicitors
CLC hits back at Lord Chief Justice and Law Society opposition to new rights
Friday, 5 August 2011The Council for Licensed Conveyancers (CLC) has hit back at opposition from the Lord Chief Justice and the Law Society to its application to grant rights to conduct advocacy and litigation. The Legal Services Board is currently considering the CLC’s application, and as one of its statutory consultees, the Lord Chief Justice Lord Judge has expressed his total opposition.
Tags: advocacy, Council for Licensed Conveyancers, ILEX, ILEX Professional Standards, Institute of Legal Executives, Law Society, Legal Services Board, Legal Services Consumer Panel, litigation rights, Office of Fair Trading, probate, reserved legal activities
Posted in Legal Services Board, News, Other lawyers
ILEX is first to receive LSB clean bill of health on regulatory independence
Friday, 22 July 2011The Institute of Legal Executives is the first approved regulator to receive a clean bill of health for its internal governance arrangements for 2011. The Legal Services Board is currently reviewing the regulatory independence certificates submitted by each approved regulator where there is also a linked representative body. There is no news yet on either the Law Society or Bar Council’s certificates.
Tags: Association of Costs Lawyers, Bar Council, bar standards board, Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys, Costs Lawyer Standards Board, ILEX, ILEX Professional Standards, Institute of Legal Executives, Institute of Trade Mark Attorneys, Intellectual Property Regulation Board, IPReg, Law Society, Legal Services Board, Solicitors Regulation Authority
Posted in Legal Executives, Legal Services Board, News, Other lawyers, Regulation
The Apprentice – lawyer style
Friday, 24 June 2011It wasn’t that long ago that you didn’t need a degree to become a solicitor. There are plenty of very eminent solicitors around who joined a law firm after school and did the old five-year articles to qualify. In fact training to be a solicitor started off purely as an apprenticeship in the form of articles of clerkship, with no examinations.
Tags: bar standards board, ILEX, ILEX Professional Standards, Institute of Legal Executives, legal education, Solicitors Regulation Authority
Posted in Blog
LSB grants first application to extend reach of reserved legal activities
Friday, 4 March 2011The Legal Services Board has for the first time granted an application to extend the reach of reserved legal activities, giving the Institute of Legal Executives the power to award the right to conduct litigation to associate prosecutors.
Tags: associate prosecutors, Crown Prosecution Service, ILEX, ILEX Professional Standards, Institute of Legal Executives, Legal Services Board, reserved legal activities
Posted in Legal Executives, Legal Services Board, News
City firms and Law Society back latest initiative to improve social mobility in the law
Sunday, 30 January 2011Three magic circle law firms are among the first to back an online initiative aimed at helping underprivileged youngsters break into the professions. Allen & Overy, Slaughter and May and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer have signed up to accessprofessions.com, a charity website which connects students aged between 13 and 21 with career-enhancing opportunities.
Tags: equality and diversity, ILEX, Institute of Legal Executives, Law Society
Posted in hrtraining, News
Professions united in opposition to “name and shame” complaints policy
Friday, 14 January 2011The three main professional bodies have all set out their stalls against lawyers being “named and shamed” if found guilty by the Legal Ombudsman (LeO) of providing an inadequate service. The Bar Council has this week joined the Law Society and Institute of Legal Executives in criticising the idea.
Tags: Bar Council, complaints, Institute of Legal Executives, Law Society, Legal Ombudsman
Posted in Barristers, Latest news, Legal Executives, Legal Ombudsman, Solicitors
LSB to take on £110,000 cost of supervising immigration advisers
Tuesday, 16 November 2010The Legal Services Board is expected take over responsibility for overseeing the regulation of immigration advisers by the legal professional bodies from the Office of the Immigration Services Commissioner (OISC), starting in April 2011.
Tags: Bar Council, immigration, Institute of Legal Executives, Law Society, Legal Services Board
Posted in Barristers, Legal Executives, Legal Services Board, News, Solicitors
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The lonely role of a COFA: sharing the burden of risk management
Compliance officers for finance and administration in law firms can often find themselves walking a solitary path. But what if we could create a collaborative culture of shared accountability?
Mind the (justice) gap: Why are RTAs going up but claims still down?
The gap between the number of road traffic accident injuries and the number of motor injury claims continues to widen, according to the latest government data.
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.
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