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LeO bids to open doors to clients of unregulated legal services providers
Tuesday, 30 July 2013The Legal Ombudsman (LeO) has today begun a debate over whether its remit should be widened to capture complaints against the 130,000 unregulated providers who deliver legal services. It has also raised the prospect of becoming the complaints body for a wide range of professionals.
Tags: Legal Ombudsman, Legal Services Act, Legal Services Board, LeO, reserved legal activities
Posted in Latest news, Legal Ombudsman
QASA heads for launch after LSB gives final green light
Monday, 29 July 2013There is “sufficient consistency of evidence and concern” about the standard of criminal advocacy to warrant the Quality Assurance Scheme for Advocates (QASA), the Legal Services Board concluded today.
Tags: bar standards board, ILEX Professional Standards, Legal Services Board, QASA, Quality Assurance Scheme for Advocates, Solicitors Regulation Authority
Posted in Barristers, Latest news, Legal Executives, Legal Services Act, Legal Services Board, Question of ethics, Solicitors
Legal Services Board “fears legal challenge” over Legal Ombudsman compromise
Friday, 26 July 2013The Legal Services Board fears a successful legal challenge should it accept the compromise aimed at resolving the impasse over moving the handling of complaints about claims management companies to the Legal Ombudsman, Legal Futures has learned.
Tags: claims management companies, claims management regulator, Legal Ombudsman, Legal Services Act, Legal Services Board, LeO
Posted in Latest news, Legal Ombudsman, Legal Services Board
Future of cab-rank rule still in question despite approval of new code of conduct for barristers
Friday, 26 July 2013The future of the cab-rank rule is still up for debate despite approval of the new Bar Standards Board code of conduct, which includes it, the Legal Services Board has warned. The BSB is also set to raise the issue of a cab-rank rule for solicitors, it has emerged.
Tags: bar standards board, cab rank rule, Legal Services Board
Posted in Barristers, Latest news, Legal Services Board
Revealed: Legal Ombudsman puts 10% of staff at risk of redundancy
Thursday, 25 July 2013The Legal Ombudsman has put around 10% of its staff at risk of redundancy as it undertakes a restructuring brought about by receiving fewer complaints than expected. It has been exacerbated by difficulties in transferring over the handling of complaints about CMCs.
Tags: claims management companies, CMC, Legal Ombudsman, Legal Services Board, LeO, personal injury
Posted in Latest news, Legal Ombudsman, Legal Services Board
Law Society lays into consumer panel over single compensation fund
Friday, 28 June 2013The Law Society has dismissed the Legal Services Consumer Panel’s call to consider a single compensation fund for all legal service providers. It claimed that the panel’s report “lacks the degree of rigour necessary for it to be considered seriously”.
Tags: compensation fund, Law Society, Legal Services Board, Legal Services Consumer Panel
Posted in Consumer panel, Latest news, Solicitors
Accountants hit back after Law Society protests over ABS regulator bid
Thursday, 27 June 2013The Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales has hit back against Law Society objections to its application to become an alternative business structure regulator, claiming the public interest was “built into accountants’ DNA”.
Tags: ABS, Alternative business structures, ICAEW, Institute of Chartered Accountants, Law Society, Legal Services Act, Legal Services Board, probate
Posted in Alternative business structures, Latest news
SRA and Legal Services Board tussle over ABS application process
Thursday, 20 June 2013The Legal Services Board has been critical of the length of the time the Solicitors Regulation Authority has taken to approve alternative business structures, it has emerged.
Tags: ABS, Alternative business structures, Legal Services Board, Solicitors Regulation Authority
Posted in Alternative business structures, Latest news, Legal Services Board, Solicitors
SRA will consider “fast-tracking” ABS applications aimed at price competitive tendering
Tuesday, 18 June 2013The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) will consider fast-tracking alternative business structure (ABS) applicants who want to bid for the government’s proposed criminal legal aid contracts, Legal Futures can reveal.
Tags: ABS, Alternative business structures, Legal Services Board, QASA, Quality Assurance Scheme for Advocates, Solicitors Regulation Authority
Posted in Alternative business structures, Latest news, Solicitors
SDT rulings send out warning to law firms over relationships with debt recovery companies
Monday, 17 June 2013Law firms must not allow arrangements with debt recovery companies to compromise their independence, the Solicitors Regulation Authority has warned, after two solicitors were fined heavily for allowing litigation to be carried out in their name.
Tags: Legal Services Board, Solicitors Regulation Authority
Posted in 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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