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Bigger than ABSs?
Monday, 5 March 2012While alternative business structures are gaining all the headlines right now, something perhaps even more fundamental is going on this year: the Legal Education and Training Review. Many know it’s happening, but I suspect few quite understand how radically it could reshape the foundation of becoming a lawyer. I don’t think I did until last week, when I attended the first of a series of five seminars being run by the Legal Services Board, this one in association with the Legal Services Institute.
Tags: bar standards board, Barristers, ILEX Professional Standards, legal education, legal education and training review, legal practice course, licensed conveyancers, Solicitors, Solicitors Regulation Authority, will-writing
Posted in Blog
SRA bids to scrap minimum salary for trainees
Thursday, 12 January 2012There is no regulatory justification for retaining the 30-year-old policy of minimum salaries for trainee solicitors, the Solicitors Regulation Authority has said. It also admitted to concerns that the Legal Education and Training Review’s timetable is too tight.
Tags: bar standards board, ILEX Professional Standards, legal education and training review, minimum salary, Solicitors Regulation Authority, trainee solicitors
Posted in hrtraining, Latest news, Solicitors
News in brief: Gulliford leaves Co-op Legal Services, ABS innovation award, LPO shunned, and more
Wednesday, 23 November 2011Our regular news in brief round-up reveals that Jonathan Gulliford, one of the architects of Co-operative Legal Services, is leaving the company this week. Meanwhile, the first ABS has won an innovation award, general counsel are cool on LPO, and Lord Justice Jackson says his reforms could boost lawyers’ work.
Tags: ABS, Alternative business structures, Co-op, conveyancing, Jackson report, legal education and training review, legal process outsourcing, Litigation Funding, LPO, Solicitors Regulation Authority
Posted in News, News In Brief
BSB presses on with Bar student aptitude test after positive pilot results
Friday, 18 November 2011An aptitude test that indicates whether Bar students will pass their exams is “the best single predictor of course outcomes”, a pilot study has concluded. The Bar Standards Board is pressing ahead with plans to introduce the test formally in autumn 2012.
Tags: bar professional training course, bar standards board, legal education and training review
Posted in Barristers, hrtraining, News
Education and training review “may not report until 2013”, Potter admits
Monday, 17 October 2011The legal education and training review, commissioned by the three main frontline legal regulators in November 2010, may not produce its final report until some point in 2013, it has emerged. Meanwhile, the academic body contracted to provide research has shut down, but the work will continue.
Tags: bar standards board, ILEX Professional Standards, legal education and training review, Solicitors Regulation Authority
Posted in Barristers, Legal Executives, News, Solicitors
SRA board moves to solicitor/lay parity with appointment of ex-LCS chief
Friday, 8 July 2011The board of the Solicitors Regulation Authority this month moved to parity between solicitor and lay ordinary members, ahead of introducing a lay majority in two years’ time. Shamit Saggar, the former chairman of the Legal Complaints Service, joined the board this month as part of a deal with the Legal Services Board.
Tags: bar standards board, ILEX Professional Standards, internal governance rules, Law Society, Legal Complaints Service, legal education and training review, Legal Services Board, Office of Fair Trading, Review 2020, Solicitors Regulation Authority
Posted in Legal Services Board, 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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