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The Legal Services Board is pushing ahead with plans to require law firms and chambers to publish comprehensive diversity and class information about their staff from next year, Legal Futures has learned.

It is fair to say that I have banged on about the critical importance of reserved legal activities quite a lot in the relatively short time Legal Futures has been going. But I now feel fully vindicated by the 50-page report from the College of Law’s Legal Services Policy Institute on this very subject.

The Legal Services Board has continued making contingency plans to regulate alternative business structures itself if none of the current approved regulators are up to the task, it has emerged from a consultation on the arrangements for appeals against the decisions of ABS licensing authorities.

The Legal Services Board is on a collision course with the Law Society and Bar Council after demanding that both introduce lay majorities on the boards of their regulatory arms sooner than planned, Legal Futures can reveal.

Why do people become lawyers? In my case, as I suspect for many others, it was largely because my parents thought it a good idea. Some may have watched too much LA Law or read too much Rumpole. Quite a few lawyers I know couldn’t think of anything better to do.