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SRA to research competence of personal injury lawyers
Friday, 4 December 2015The Solicitors Regulation Authority is to launch a research project on the “competence” of personal injury lawyers, it has emerged. The research will examine the “decisions and processes implemented by firms to respond to legislative and market changes”.
Tags: personal injury, Solicitors Regulation Authority
Posted in Latest news, Regulation, Solicitors
Horwich Farrelly recruits Greenwoods personal injury lawyers from Parabis
Tuesday, 24 November 2015Insurance specialist Horwich Farrelly has recruited the entire Greenwoods large and complex personal injury team, among a total of seven partners and 36 other staff, from Parabis. Meanwhile Fletchers has revealed its ambition to be a top 100 firm by 2018.
Tags: personal injury
Posted in Alternative business structures, Latest news, Legal Services Act
Personal injury experts join forces for launch of live “knowledge hub”
Thursday, 5 November 2015A personal injury “knowledge hub”, backed by a board of industry experts, has been launched by solicitor and due diligence specialist Zoe Holland. Andrew Twambley and Professor Dominic Regan are among those involved.
Tags: personal injury
Posted in Latest news, Technology
Law firm’s joint venture CMC sparks PI competition by undercutting market on success fees
Monday, 19 October 2015A claims management company set up as a joint venture between a law firm and two non-lawyer investors is looking to start competition in the personal injury market by offering clients success fees of 15%. Quittance promises to absorb other costs.
Tags: personal injury
Posted in Latest news, Marketing & PR, Technology
I was wrong to sell my firm to Quindell, says former legal division boss
Monday, 5 October 2015The former chief executive of Quindell Legal Services (QLS) has admitted that he was wrong to sell a business he had built up over 13 years to the troubled plc two years ago. However, Phil Hodgkinson said he had learnt a lot from the “Quindell experience”.
Tags: fixed fees, personal injury, Quindell
Posted in Alternative business structures, Latest news
“There’s nothing to stop us competing with you”, trade union ABS warns high street firms
Friday, 2 October 2015The co-founder of Britain’s only trade union-owned alternative business structure (ABS) has warned high street lawyers that there is nothing to stop it competing with them. He also expressed concern that the profession was becoming obsessed with profit at the expense of the client.
Tags: ABS, Alternative business structures, personal injury
Posted in Alternative business structures, Latest news, Legal Services Act
DAC Beachcroft turns claims group into ABS
Thursday, 3 September 2015International law firm DAC Beachcroft’s Claims Solutions Group, which employs 900 people across the UK, became an alternative business structure yesterday. Craig Dickson, chief executive of the group, said the move would help it respond to the “fluid” legal claims market.
Tags: ABS, Alternative business structures, personal injury
Posted in Alternative business structures, Latest news, Legal Services Act
Car crash not to blame for lack of training contract, judge tells litigant-in-person
Monday, 10 August 2015A judge has told a litigant-in-person that a road traffic accident she was involved in was not to blame for her failure to secure a training contract. Judge Walden-Smith said the “sad fact” was that many “competent individuals” failed to obtain a contract.
Tags: personal injury, professional negligence
Posted in Indemnity insurance, Latest news
Exclusive: Minster Law signs national advocacy deal with Clerksroom and Parklane Plowden
Friday, 7 August 2015Personal injury specialist Minster Law has signed an exclusive two-year contract with national chambers Clerksroom and Parklane Plowden, to provide barristers for its fast and multi-track cases. Stephen Ward, chief executive of Clerksroom, said he hoped similar contracts would follow.
Tags: Alternative business structures, Barristers' chambers, personal injury
Posted in Alternative business structures, Latest news, Legal Services Act
Serious Fraud Office launches criminal investigation into Quindell
Wednesday, 5 August 2015The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) has announced this afternoon that its director has opened a criminal investigation into “business and accounting practices” at troubled Quindell plc. The Financial Reporting Council has launched its own investigation.
Tags: personal injury, Quindell
Posted in Latest news