Relationships with litigation funders are destabilising some high-volume consumer claims law firms, the Solicitors Regulation ...

The Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal has warned solicitors of the dangers of acting for family members after fining one who preferred his wife in the distribution of an estate.

The money employers have to pay employees for legal advice on settlement agreements is not enough to deal with the NDAs they ...

We here at Legal Futures, in conjunction with the FRCConnect team at Kain Knight Costs Lawyers, are keen to understand how ...

After spending the early years of my career in legal practice working in a traditional role as an employed solicitor, I found myself yearning for greater flexibility and autonomy.

The two largest legal regulators – the SRA and BSB – are the only ones to fail their performance assessments over the past year, the Legal Services Board revealed today. A senior district judge has ...

Law firms should adopt a ‘legitimate provenance of wealth test’ when taking on clients as part of an ethics-based approach ...

Solicitors for leading insurers have been accused of data protection breaches in collating evidence about the way a North ...

The first solicitor prosecuted for ‘tipping off’ a client about a money laundering investigation has now been suspended for allowing a client to use his firm’s account as a banking facility.

A deputy district judge who took nearly three years to hand down a judgment would have been removed from office had she not ...

Despite engaging a lawyer, some clients want to take the lead and on occasion you meet a client who thinks they know better ...