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WEB1 day ago · In July, I completed a second-year evaluation of a health justice project in Australia amid the continuing interest in England and Wales in co-locating health and legal services. Legal news and updates from Legal Futures. …
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WEBWhy it’s time to embrace health justice partnerships. In July, I completed a second-year evaluation of a health justice project in Australia amid the continuing interest in England and Wales in co-locating health and legal services. Read More. 30 August 2024.
SRA issues fines exceeding £55,000 for AML compliance breaches
WEBMar 8, 2024 · AML: Inconsistent SRA notices. The Solicitors Regulation Authority has handed out more than £55,000 in fines to firms and individual lawyers in recent days for breaches of anti-money laundering (AML) requirements. The largest was for Bristol firm Batchelor Sharp, which received a fine of £23,035, near the limit of the regulator’s powers ...
Innovating an outdated criminal justice system - Legal Futures
WEBJan 8, 2021 · A £280m digital infrastructure system, it reforms criminal justice by delivering a dedicated online ‘central hub’ allowing organisations, including HMCTS, the Crown Prosecution Service and the police, to share and access relevant information. The programme is designed to help transition legal professionals away …
Huge US law firm start-up targets London presence by spring
WEBJan 8, 2024 · One of the largest law firm launches in US legal history – a ‘distributed’ practice with over 130 senior lawyers announced last week – is set to plant its flag in London shortly. Pierson Ferdinand is peeling away a huge number of lawyers from FisherBroyles, which was a pioneer of the model of senior lawyers leaving big firms to …
Reach for the STaRs – new solicitors’ rulebook goes live
WEBNov 25, 2019 · The Solicitors Regulation Authority’s (SRA) new rulebook – Standards and Regulations (STaRs) – comes into force today, with experts highlighting several areas of significant change and opportunity for firms. These include new rules on reporting concerns about regulatory breaches, the chance to use third-party managed accounts (TPMAs) to ...
Susskind: Lawyers wrong to think technology cannot replace them
WEBMar 20, 2019 · Lawyers are wrong to think that there are tasks beyond technology that only they can carry out, Professor Richard Susskind has warned. He urged lawyers of the future not to look to compete with the machines, but to help build them instead. Addressing the recent Westminster Legal Policy Forum in London on …
Sunak “undermining trust in lawyers”, says Bar Council
WEB26 July 2023 Posted by Neil Rose. Sunak: Budget on Wednesday. The Bar Council has accused Prime Minister Rishi Sunak of undermining trust in the profession by claiming that a “subset of lawyers” are exploiting illegal migrants for profit. Mr Sunak made the comments in the wake of a Daily Mail investigation that claimed lawyers at three ...
Think tank calls for compulsory pro bono and oaths for newly …
WEBJul 14, 2015 · An influential think tank has called for the introduction of compulsory pro bono for lawyers, set at 10% of their “work output”. The call follows justice secretary Michael Gove’s comment in a speech last month that “much more” needed to be done to encourage pro bono, particularly by commercial lawyers.. ResPublica, which has been linked to David Cameron’s ‘Big Society’, also ...
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WEBAt Legal Futures, we’ve been keeping solicitors up to date with the latest changes in the legal market for over a decade via our ground-breaking journalism and conferences. And through our predecessor, LIPs Legal, we’ve been providing practical, online CPD training for 16 years to literally thousands of legal professionals.