All SRA regulated law firms must have a Compliance Officer for Legal Practice (‘COLP’) in place. The COLP must be a manager or employee, as defined by the SRA Glossary, and formally approved into this role. Som...
SRA Transparency Rules. Grace period is at an end. We previously published a blog on how your firm should be complying with the SRA Transparency Rules (‘the Rules’). Despite the Rules coming into force in Dec...
Are these lengthy reviews needed? We recently received an enquiry from a solicitor. He questioned whether his firm needed to continue carrying out file reviews, as the process had become cumbersome and time-con...
A recent survey conducted by LawNet, the network of mid-sized and smaller firms, has found that reputation and trust remain the key factors for clients when differentiating between a legal services provider. De...
Lexcel is the Law Society’s legal practice quality mark for practice management and client care. It is a scheme for any type of practice to certify that certain standards have been met following independent ass...
Smaller firms taking the lead A recent report has concluded that large firms are now losing their talent to smaller competitors. The Bellwether Report 2019: Stress in the Legal Profession found that despite num...
Despite the SRA Transparency Rules 2018 (‘the Rules’) coming into force in December 2018, the regulator has recently announced that following a review of 500 law firm websites, almost 20% made no effort to comp...