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• News focus: council lawyers face up to government cuts
  external story (20/04/2011)
  
• Reforms will deter VC firms
  external story (20/04/2011)
  
• Shadow justice minister attacks Jackson costs reforms
  external story (20/04/2011)
  
• Firm wins injunction against Solicitors from Hell
  external story (20/04/2011)
  
• Advocacy Training Council calls for vulnerable witness support
  external story (20/04/2011)
  
• Struck-off solicitor: ‘one of the worst SDT cases’
  external story (20/04/2011)
  
• City lawyers warn over EU boardroom plans
  external story (20/04/2011)
  
• Court hearings should not be private, says Lord Neuberger
  external story (20/04/2011)
  
• IT errors costly for legal aid firms
  external story (20/04/2011)
  
• Solicitors Regulation Authority launches review of CPD rules
  external story (20/04/2011)
  
• Half of UK adults cold-called by claims firms
  external story (19/04/2011)
  
• Linklaters tops table of law firm websites
  external story (19/04/2011)
  
• Prudential granted leave to appeal in privilege case
  external story (19/04/2011)
  
• More law firms face financial distress, report suggests
  external story (18/04/2011)
  
• CBI slams ‘claim first, think later’ tribunal culture
  external story (18/04/2011)
  
• TUC warns against impact of employment law reforms
  external story (18/04/2011)
  
• Society welcomes amendment to solicitors’ insurance rules
  external story (15/04/2011)
  
• Consumer ‘confusion’ over legal expenses insurance
  external story (15/04/2011)
  
• Law firm develops divorce app
  external story (15/04/2011)
  
• APIL warns of ‘dumbed down’ lawyers post-ABS
  external story (14/04/2011)
  
• Eversheds and DLA Piper lose employment tribunal cases
  external story (13/04/2011)
  
• Growth remains 'anaemic' in top 50 law firms
  external story (13/04/2011)
  
• MPs oppose legal aid cuts
  external story (13/04/2011)
  
• Future uncertain for Community Legal Advice Centres
  external story (13/04/2011)
  
• High Court challenge to court closures
  external story (13/04/2011)
  
• New round of district judge appointments
  external story (13/04/2011)
  
• Firms ignoring ABS impact are 'sticking their heads in sand'
  external story (13/04/2011)
  
• Solicitor won High Court injunction for stalking victim
  external story (13/04/2011)
  
• Big-hitters join Society’s Human Rights Committee
  external story (13/04/2011)
  
• Clifford Chance advises on Arsenal deal, General Electric aquisition and Norton Rose helps with Danaos changes
  external story (13/04/2011)
  
• Law Commission proposes new ‘Consumer Act’
  external story (12/04/2011)
  
• Society announces election of deputy vice-president
  external story (12/04/2011)
  
• APIL’s new president pledges to campaign for rights of injured
  external story (11/04/2011)
  
• ASA rejects complaint about QualitySolicitors TV advert
  external story (11/04/2011)
  
• Profession helps law schools to step up pro bono advice
  external story (08/04/2011)
  
• Dominic Grieve set for Minority Lawyers Conference
  external story (08/04/2011)
  
• Employment lawyers see surge in disputes
  external story (08/04/2011)
  
• RBS offers legal documentation to small business clients
  external story (08/04/2011)
  
• Legal Services Board reveals high level of ABS interest
  external story (08/04/2011)
  
• European courts face workload ‘crisis’, claims House of Lords
  external story (07/04/2011)
  
• Human rights partner acts for London Fortnum & Mason protestors
  external story (06/04/2011)
  
• Garden party date
  external story (06/04/2011)
  
• Study to examine oversupply of LPC graduates
  external story (24/02/2011)
  
• First law firms accredited under Conveyancing Quality Scheme
  external story (23/02/2011)
  
• Very superstitious
  external story (23/02/2011)
  
• Cuts to put half of legal aid firms at risk of closure
  external story (23/02/2011)
  
• Separating couples to be forced to consider mediation option
  external story (23/02/2011)
  
• Lloyds Banking Group heeds Law Society confidentiality concerns
  external story (23/02/2011)
  
• Robert M Jones represented mental illness patient in bankruptcy annulment
  external story (23/02/2011)
  
• Mosley speaks on privacy
  external story (23/02/2011)
  
• APIL chief urges government to give RTA portal a chance
  external story (23/02/2011)
  
• Justice system delays endemic, research shows
  external story (23/02/2011)
  
• One in two children in care 'don't trust the courts'
  external story (23/02/2011)
  
• London solicitor criticises 'absurd' conditional fee agreement ruling
  external story (23/02/2011)
  
• Djanogly defends impact of legal aid cuts on voluntary sector
  external story (22/02/2011)
  
• Oversupply of lawyers to drive down costs, says Green
  external story (22/02/2011)
  
• Rise in legal disputes between commercial landlords and tenants
  external story (21/02/2011)
  
• Lloyds backs down on client account information
  external story (18/02/2011)
  
• Clifford Chance merges with Australian firms
  external story (18/02/2011)
  
• Jackson reforms fail to account for RTA progress
  external story (18/02/2011)
  
• French judges in protest
  external story (16/02/2011)
  
• Colum Smith acts for businesswoman claiming from plastic surgeon
  external story (16/02/2011)
  
• Short sentences for young offenders ‘inefficient’
  external story (18/01/2011)
  
• Law Society demands release of Iranian lawyer
  external story (18/01/2011)
  
• UK legal sector set to benefit from Hong Kong investment
  external story (17/01/2011)
  
• Law firms’ poor use of Twitter risks 'damaging their brand’
  external story (17/01/2011)
  
• SRA takes first steps in review of training and education
  external story (14/01/2011)
  
• Fraud hits record high, KPMG report claims
  external story (14/01/2011)
  
• Stephanie Prior acted for three women over contraception failure
  external story (12/01/2011)
  
• Legal aid survey
  external story (12/01/2011)
  
• Burger deal, fashion buy, road-building initiative, new listing
  external story (12/01/2011)
  
• 'Virtual’ visitor interrupts police interview
  external story (12/01/2011)
  
• Bar Council calls for prohibition of referral fees
  external story (23/12/2010)
  
• Ministry of Justice backs virtual courts scheme
  external story (23/12/2010)
  
• Age of criminal responsibility will not change, says government
  external story (21/12/2010)
  
• ‘Irresponsible’ to roll out virtual courts after critical report, says Law Society
  external story (21/12/2010)
  
• Firms reject candidates on the basis of their accents, research suggests
  external story (21/12/2010)
  
• Publish complaints against firms, Consumer Panel urges
  external story (21/12/2010)
  
• Immigration cap ‘unlawful’, court rules
  external story (20/12/2010)
  
• Forced meditation will encourage ‘excessive demands’ in family disputes
  external story (20/12/2010)
  
• Lord chief justice allows Twitter in court
  external story (20/12/2010)
  
• Solicitors make errors in PII proposal forms
  external story (17/12/2010)
  
• MPs warned they will be ‘overloaded’ due to legal aid cuts
  external story (17/12/2010)
  
• FSA raises protection for client accounts
  external story (17/12/2010)
  
• Linklaters tops diversity league table
  external story (17/12/2010)
  
• Motion to widen Society membership withdrawn
  external story (17/12/2010)
  
• Judiciary has failed to lure City lawyers, lord chief justice admits
  external story (16/12/2010)
  
• SRA consults on simplifying regulation for sole practitioners
  external story (16/12/2010)
  
• Firms set to be forced to publish diversity data
  external story (15/12/2010)
  
• Law Society sets up lobbying working party
  external story (15/12/2010)
  
• City claims EC proposal would 'dilute English law'
  external story (15/12/2010)
  
• £1bn paid out to law firms for handling coal miners’ claims
  external story (15/12/2010)
  
• Green paper warning from mental health professionals
  external story (15/12/2010)
  
• Law firms face new year 'cash crunch'
  external story (15/12/2010)
  
• Students get murder case referred back to Court of Appeal
  external story (15/12/2010)
  
• Solicitor who 'shamed profession' jailed
  external story (15/12/2010)
  
• Government announces court closures
  external story (14/12/2010)
  
• Allen & Overy faces lawsuit over employee sacked for erotic blog
  external story (14/12/2010)
  
• Leading Sheffield firm falls victim to downturn
  external story (13/12/2010)
  
• Consumers unattracted by non-legal brands, survey suggests
  external story (10/12/2010)
  
• Youth crime has fallen, report suggests
  external story (09/12/2010)
  
• Mystery shoppers to test will-writers
  external story (09/12/2010)
  
• EU divorce options
  external story (08/12/2010)
  
• Out of court disposals warning
  external story (08/12/2010)
  
• Lawyer denies ‘£1.4m theft’
  external story (08/12/2010)
  
• Solicitors miss out on judicial posts
  external story (08/12/2010)
  
• Paul Howcroft represents Accidia in da Vinci case
  external story (08/12/2010)
  
• Libel defence broadened to reflect internet age
  external story (08/12/2010)
  
• Family lawyers offered ADR fee
  external story (08/12/2010)
  
• Academics warn against restricting qualifying law degrees
  external story (07/12/2010)
  
• Government proposes 50% sentence cut for guilty pleas
  external story (07/12/2010)
  
• Firms tighten spending on support staff and training
  external story (07/12/2010)
  
• Law Society should open to non-solicitors, council member proposes
  external story (06/12/2010)
  
• Kate Oldfield represents families involved in the Redfern Inquiry
  external story (06/12/2010)
  
• Lawyers switched on to technology
  external story (03/12/2010)
  
• Bar Council visits Gulf to promote barristers
  external story (03/12/2010)
  
• Conveyancing under spotlight as SRA unveils sweeping PII reforms
  external story (03/12/2010)
  
• Paralegals seek right to advise in redundancy cases
  external story (03/12/2010)
  
• Regulator sets out guidance on pre-emptive ABS discussions
  external story (02/12/2010)
  
• 'Mixed practice' warning for publicly funded barristers
  external story (02/12/2010)
  
• Green pioneers slash carbon footprints
  external story (02/12/2010)
  
• House of Commons inquiry
  external story (01/12/2010)
  
• Moses backs jury questions in criminal trials
  external story (01/12/2010)
  
• Fixed-share partner loses appeal
  external story (01/12/2010)
  
• Insurers seek to pursue solicitors over whiplash fraud claims
  external story (01/12/2010)
  
• MoJ calls for data on RTA portal abuses
  external story (01/12/2010)
  
• Personal injury ad ban appeal
  external story (01/12/2010)
  
• EU bill set to confirm UK sovereignty
  external story (01/12/2010)
  
• Mexican lawyers honoured with human rights award
  external story (01/12/2010)
  
• EU to the rescue on legal aid?
  external story (01/12/2010)
  
• Legal aid solicitors overpaid by £77m
  external story (30/11/2010)
  
• Family courts have lost authority, warns judge
  external story (29/11/2010)
  
• Rise in number of intestacy disputes
  external story (29/11/2010)
  
• Ralli motors ahead with new iPhone app
  external story (26/11/2010)
  
• Law Society calls for greater focus on ethics in training
  external story (26/11/2010)
  
• Legal executives seek independent conveyancing rights
  external story (26/11/2010)
  
• Wigster comparison site signs up Shoosmiths’ consumer arm
  external story (26/11/2010)
  
• Online law degree launched in Scotland
  external story (25/11/2010)
  
• Court of Appeal dismisses US-style class action bid
  external story (25/11/2010)
  
• Herbert Smith to open document centre in Belfast
  external story (24/11/2010)
  
• Rapid population growth will fuel demand for legal services
  external story (24/11/2010)
  
• Calls for major reform to law training
  external story (24/11/2010)
  
• Law Society to fund panel action
  external story (24/11/2010)
  
• Internet ‘threat’ to jury system
  external story (24/11/2010)
  
• Stolen data used for email scams
  external story (24/11/2010)
  
• Real estate litigation to rise
  external story (24/11/2010)
  
• Unite and fight legal aid cuts – Kennedy
  external story (24/11/2010)
  
• BME firms told to embrace alternative business structures
  external story (24/11/2010)
  
• Djanogly in mediation push
  external story (24/11/2010)
  
• Solicitor jailed for client theft
  external story (24/11/2010)
  
• Trial judges should put questions to jurors, says Lord Justice Moses
  external story (24/11/2010)
  
• Forensic expert witnesses should be accredited, warns judge
  external story (23/11/2010)
  
• Justice minister calls for greater steer towards mediation
  external story (22/11/2010)
  
• Scrap training contract, says thinktank
  external story (22/11/2010)
  
• Society launches campaign to fight legal aid cuts
  external story (19/11/2010)
  
• ‘Compensation culture’ peer quits over gaffe
  external story (19/11/2010)
  
• Indian legal services market to stay closed
  external story (17/11/2010)
  
• Ian Ginbey challenges Whitehall policy on regional planning
  external story (17/11/2010)
  
• Criminal justice ‘sluggish’
  external story (17/11/2010)
  
• Judicial Appointments Commission survives quango cull
  external story (17/11/2010)
  
• Sole practitioners see fall in SRA interventions
  external story (17/11/2010)
  
• Skilled worker visa quota massively oversubscribed
  external story (17/11/2010)
  
• More than 300 firms reform as LDPs
  external story (17/11/2010)
  
• Consumer shift in estate services
  external story (17/11/2010)
  
• Government rethinks TUPE stance
  external story (17/11/2010)
  
• Neuberger: mediation is no substitute for justice
  external story (17/11/2010)
  
• News focus: more uncertainty ahead for legal aid lawyers
  external story (17/11/2010)
  
• Legal fees drive up motor premium costs, claim insurers
  external story (16/11/2010)
  
• Government unveils overhaul of legal aid and civil litigation costs
  external story (15/11/2010)
  
• LSC extends family contracts
  external story (12/11/2010)
  
• Solicitors ‘not doing enough’ to market themselves as ABSs approach
  external story (12/11/2010)
  
• Increase alcohol tax to fund legal aid, says Law Society
  external story (12/11/2010)
  
• Research reveals widening social divide in the profession
  external story (12/11/2010)
  
• SJ Berwin drops merger plans with US firm
  external story (12/11/2010)
  
• SRA to launch ‘strategic review’ of training
  external story (12/11/2010)
  
• QualitySolicitors opens first ‘legal store’
  external story (11/11/2010)
  
• Consumer panel wants lawyers to undergo ‘regular MOT’
  external story (11/11/2010)
  
• More solicitors struck off, as sole practitioners see interventions fall
  external story (11/11/2010)
  
• Top-50 firms see revenues grow
  external story (11/11/2010)
  
• ‘Sluggish’ justice must be faster and cheaper
  external story (10/11/2010)
  
• Judicial Appointments Commission survives quangos cull
  external story (10/11/2010)
  
• GC100 rejects government's disclosure proposals
  external story (10/11/2010)
  
• Virtual court pilot in ‘chaos’
  external story (10/11/2010)
  
• ProcureCos could earn bar ‘millions’ in new work
  external story (10/11/2010)
  
• Neuberger endorses accreditation scheme
  external story (10/11/2010)
  
• Miners’ compensation claims website under investigation by MoJ
  external story (10/11/2010)
  
• Big majority backs free legal advice
  external story (10/11/2010)
  
• 'Solicitors from Hell' owner vows to persevere after another libel loss
  external story (10/11/2010)
  
• Surprise fall in solicitors' PII bill
  external story (10/11/2010)
  
• Rail acquisition, energy listing, bank sale and telecoms loan
  external story (10/11/2010)
  
• LSC facing court challenge over immigration contracts
  external story (09/11/2010)
  
• Revenues rise at Allen & Overy
  external story (08/11/2010)
  
• New High Court challenge to legal aid contracts fails
  external story (08/11/2010)
  
• Hammonds agrees latest transatlantic merger
  external story (08/11/2010)
  
• National Pro Bono Week gets under way
  external story (08/11/2010)
  
• Indemnity insurance bill falls to three-year low
  external story (05/11/2010)
  
• Law Society warning over immigration cap proposals
  external story (05/11/2010)
  
• Robertson to deliver human rights lecture
  external story (04/11/2010)
  
• Drafting error fears over Equality Act
  external story (03/11/2010)
  
• Bribery Act sparks recruitment drive for compliance lawyers
  external story (03/11/2010)
  
• Call for professional code of conduct for all mediators
  external story (03/11/2010)
  
• Ombudsman to investigate complaints against LSC
  external story (03/11/2010)
  
• Scrap single PII renewal date, report says
  external story (03/11/2010)
  
• Clifford Chance sued in New York over redundancies
  external story (03/11/2010)
  
• MPs question MoJ over budget cuts
  external story (03/11/2010)
  
• Solicitors believe ABSs will create ‘more opportunity’
  external story (03/11/2010)
  
• Mid-tier law firms seek mergers as loans rise
  external story (03/11/2010)
  
• Law Society criticises jury trial proposals as 'entirely wrong'
  external story (03/11/2010)
  
• Outsourcing association for law firms launched
  external story (02/11/2010)
  
• Trade union backs asbestos appeal
  external story (02/11/2010)
  
• ‘Nothing is off the cards’ in ABS era, says Co-op
  external story (29/10/2010)
  
• Law Society calls for reform of murder sentencing
  external story (29/10/2010)
  
• Personal injury solicitors rebuff ABI claims over ‘excessive’ costs
  external story (29/10/2010)
  
• Freeman tops ranking of high-profile solicitors
  external story (28/10/2010)
  
• Abolish single PII renewal and review conveyancing process, says report for SRA
  external story (28/10/2010)
  
• Children 'at risk' over court fees
  external story (27/10/2010)
  
• Lawyers call for details of £350m legal aid budget cut
  external story (27/10/2010)
  
• Employment fears spark call surge
  external story (27/10/2010)
  
• LSC rules out appeal against family tender judgment
  external story (27/10/2010)
  
• Gazette reader offers
  external story (27/10/2010)
  
• James Carlton represents families of 7 July London bombing victims
  external story (27/10/2010)
  
• Supreme Court backs right to police station advice
  external story (27/10/2010)
  
• Gazette book reviews online
  external story (27/10/2010)
  
• New advocacy proposals 'prejudice' solicitors
  external story (27/10/2010)
  
• Solicitor jailed for fraud
  external story (27/10/2010)
  
• Regulators consult on tougher rules for law degrees
  external story (26/10/2010)
  
• Lord chief justice calls for reform of family system
  external story (26/10/2010)
  
• Immigration lawyers issue warning over appeals fee
  external story (26/10/2010)
  
• Support victims of rape, says Stern
  external story (22/10/2010)
  
• New advocacy proposals ‘prejudice’ solicitors
  external story (22/10/2010)
  
• Children at risk over court fees
  external story (22/10/2010)
  
• Des Collins named Gazette Legal Personality of the Year
  external story (22/10/2010)
  
• Thompsons reprimanded over miners’ claims
  external story (21/10/2010)
  
• Lawyers issue warning over Lord Young’s compensation proposals
  external story (20/10/2010)
  
• Price competition 'very possible' in criminal legal aid tendering
  external story (20/10/2010)
  
• SRA publishes ‘final draft’ of its radical reforms to the code of conduct
  external story (20/10/2010)
  
• Insurers accused of ‘abusing’ RTA scheme
  external story (20/10/2010)
  
• Bar unveils scheme to assess good conduct
  external story (20/10/2010)
  
• EC in class action plan
  external story (20/10/2010)
  
• Lawyers put forward alternatives to legal aid cuts
  external story (19/10/2010)
  
• SRA appoints former Linklaters partner as chief City adviser
  external story (18/10/2010)
  
• Law firm cashier jailed for stealing £1.6m
  external story (18/10/2010)
  
• MoJ budget slashed by 30%
  external story (18/10/2010)
  
• Lawyers suffer from ‘information overload’
  external story (18/10/2010)
  
• Young report seeks to curb ‘compensation culture’
  external story (15/10/2010)
  
• Consumer’s voice in legal reforms under threat
  external story (15/10/2010)
  
• Legal services reforms will create ‘tougher market’, says LSB
  external story (15/10/2010)
  
• Consumers ‘crowded out’ of small claims process
  external story (15/10/2010)
  
• Lawyers issue warning over Young’s proposals
  external story (15/10/2010)
  
• MoJ confirms quango cull
  external story (14/10/2010)
  
• LSC announces contract start dates
  external story (13/10/2010)
  
• Forced mediation 'may not serve interests of children'
  external story (13/10/2010)
  
• Stock market jitters hit equity capital markets teams
  external story (13/10/2010)
  
• TUC brands asbestos ruling 'obscene'
  external story (13/10/2010)
  
• Chancery Lane publishes Jackson review response
  external story (13/10/2010)
  
• Employment solicitor sets up legal aid support network
  external story (13/10/2010)
  
• More general counsel facing regulatory investigations
  external story (13/10/2010)
  
• Law Society issues warning over government cuts
  external story (12/10/2010)
  
• College of Law supports Browne’s plans on higher education
  external story (12/10/2010)
  
• High Court defamation claims soar
  external story (11/10/2010)
  
• Homeowners' policy could lower PII premiums
  external story (11/10/2010)
  
• Lord Young declines meeting with profession’s regulator
  external story (08/10/2010)
  
• Sadiq Khan named as shadow lord chancellor
  external story (08/10/2010)
  
• House price fall could prove fillip for conveyancers
  external story (08/10/2010)
  
• SRA closes Burges Salmon investigation
  external story (08/10/2010)
  
• Ken Clarke predicts legal services ‘big bang’
  external story (07/10/2010)
  
• High volume of complaints against solicitors as LeO launches
  external story (07/10/2010)
  
• Firms leave ARP following tough SRA action
  external story (07/10/2010)
  
• Legal profession ‘inherently masculine’, says report for LSB
  external story (07/10/2010)
  
• 3,000 high street firms could disappear - Clarke
  external story (06/10/2010)
  
• LSC announces defendant legal aid sanctions
  external story (06/10/2010)
  
• Earn CPD points with the Gazette
  external story (06/10/2010)
  
• Chancery Lane calls for appraisal system for family judges
  external story (06/10/2010)
  
• Blueprint for local government revealed
  external story (06/10/2010)
  
• US merger for DWS
  external story (06/10/2010)
  
• Welfare group opposes immigration cap
  external story (06/10/2010)
  
• Policestationreps sees threefold increase in lawyers using website
  external story (06/10/2010)
  
• Lawyers hit by corruption and international bribery
  external story (06/10/2010)
  
• Intestacy rules in need of updating
  external story (06/10/2010)
  
• 'No legal case' for Iraq invasion
  external story (06/10/2010)
  
• Courts will ‘struggle to cope’ with Equality Act caseload
  external story (06/10/2010)
  
• Mayer Brown outsources secretarial practice
  external story (04/10/2010)
  
• Firms make applications to assigned risks pool
  external story (04/10/2010)
  
• Court figures show rise in FTSE 100 litigation
  external story (04/10/2010)
  
• LSC hit by £300,000 legal bill over tender
  external story (01/10/2010)
  
• Injury claims carry a ‘social stigma’
  external story (30/09/2010)
  
• Family contracts quashed
  external story (30/09/2010)
  
• Law Society wins family tender challenge
  external story (30/09/2010)
  
• Murder law changes
  external story (29/09/2010)
  
• Five firms ‘put in intensive care’ by banks
  external story (29/09/2010)
  
• David Thomas wins ECHR ruling for evicted tenants
  external story (29/09/2010)
  
• Five solicitors shortlisted for Gazette Legal Personality of the Year Award
  external story (29/09/2010)
  
• Djanogly sticks to October 2011 timetable for ABSs
  external story (29/09/2010)
  
• Legal Services Board rules out fresh referral fee ban
  external story (29/09/2010)
  
• ‘Allegations’ against solicitors in decline
  external story (29/09/2010)
  
• Tributes paid to Trevor Aldridge, the first solicitor QC
  external story (29/09/2010)
  
• Lawyers protest over proposed closure of Mayor’s and City court
  external story (29/09/2010)
  
• Flood liability warning for conveyancers
  external story (29/09/2010)
  
• Oxford report recommends tariffs for lawyers’ fees
  external story (29/09/2010)
  
• Firms miss out on consumer calls
  external story (28/09/2010)
  
• Legal Ombudsman seeks views on complaints publishing
  external story (28/09/2010)
  
• Law Society launches scheme to deliver PII help
  external story (28/09/2010)
  
• City Law School agrees internships
  external story (27/09/2010)
  
• Bar regulator proposes relaxing limits on barristers’ role
  external story (27/09/2010)
  
• Legal quangos face cull
  external story (24/09/2010)
  
• LSC puts its case in family judicial review
  external story (24/09/2010)
  
• Surge in judges ordering parenting classes
  external story (24/09/2010)
  
• Law Society doubles Diversity Access Scheme places
  external story (24/09/2010)
  
• Law Commission seeks ideas for projects
  external story (23/09/2010)
  
• Publishing diversity data ‘powerful incentive’ for firms
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• SRA aims to make fee fair
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• New scheme to target personal injury claims
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• Lawyers sceptical over latest IT rollout by LSC
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• Law Society seeks to block privilege for non-lawyers
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• QualitySolicitors to launch personal injury claims management scheme
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• Employment Appeal Tribunal: ‘Job applications must be genuine’
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• Barristers could have right to sue solicitors for unpaid fees
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• Quinn Group considers selling insurance arm
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• Chancery Lane condemns criticism of Chinese human rights lawyers
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• Law Society calls for greater protection of client money
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• Firms ‘bucking recessionary trend’, says survey
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• Solicitors to launch scheme to drive down PI referral costs
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• Quinn Group to ‘consider selling’ its insurance business
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• Children ‘at risk’ over expert witness fee cuts
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• Research shows fall in in-house salaries
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• Advocate general advises against privilege for in-house lawyers
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• General counsel ‘bypass law firms’ and go directly to the bar
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• Bar sets out guidance on how chambers can compete with solicitors
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• Plans to reopen Quinn business lines
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• Beresfords pays out to former coal miners
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• Warning that local solicitors will become an ‘endangered species’
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• Law Society unveils new online resource with details of CPD courses
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• Firms shrug off disruption caused by Iceland’s volcanic eruption
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• Rising cost of PI claims against the NHS ‘cannot continue’
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• Third-party capture is ‘legitimate’ , says Association of British Insurers
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• Legal Services Commission delays outcome of mental health tender
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• Nominations sought for Law Society Council
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• Surge in new laws sparked by recession, research reveals
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• Malaysian Human Rights Commission criticises treatment of lawyers
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• Nationwide removes 300 firms from its conveyancing panel
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• Quinn to re-enter UK insurance market
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• Local government legal departments braced for cuts
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• New brand to promote barristers’ services direct to the public
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• CPS slows recruitment of in-house Crown advocates
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• Quinn Insurance may reopen UK business – latest advice
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• Solicitor concerns over ‘chaotic’ DSCC handover
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• New civil legal aid contracts ‘will cause closures’
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• Judicial mediation in Employment Tribunal cases falls short
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• Regional administrative courts issue more cases than expected
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• Co-op in new drive to promote legal services to food shoppers
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• Child’s view holds sway in international abduction case
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• Scottish solicitors reject ‘Tesco law’ – and raise fears of flight to England
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• Immigration rules ‘poisoned chalice’, warn lawyers
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• City partnership promotions unveiled
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• Call for opening up of search data
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• ‘No action needed’ on Quinn Insurance
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• Co-op launches advertising campaign in legal services drive
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• LibDems propose to scrap HIPs
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• Victoria Johnson represents PC’s family in fatal shooting case
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• Permanent administrators appointed to Quinn Insurance
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• Fears over child care lawyer shortage
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• Baker & McKenzie using external firms to recover unpaid fees
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• McGrigors chief offers ‘Tesco law’ rift solution
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• Lawyer issues libel claim against 'solicitorsfromhell' website
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• Immigration legal aid contracts further delayed
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• SRA rules out practising certificate fee appeals
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• Barristers starting to take advantage of reforms
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• Publicity provokes firm into file-sharing rethink
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• IFA commissions clampdown welcomed
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• Media reporting bill ‘threat’ to vulnerable children
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• Labour manifesto targets legal aid to safeguard ‘frontline services’
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• Conservative manifesto promise to ‘rebuild confidence’ in justice system
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• ‘Good firms’ should offer online services, say consumers
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• Solicitors in limbo as Quinn ruling adjourned
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• PC fee help for small firms and legal aid practices
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• Fate of Quinn Insurance hangs in the balance
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• Fate of Quinn Insurance hangs in the balance
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• Legal aid cuts will happen ‘under any government’, parties warn
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• English language test for foreign-qualified lawyers
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• Firms face bar competition after conduct rules relaxed
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• Government abandons libel fee cut bid
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• Criminal defence firms fail to secure legal aid contracts beyond July 2010
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• Cap on contingency fees comes into force
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• Solicitor struck off over £8m mortgage fraud
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• South Korea ‘high growth market’ opens up for UK firms
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• Scots to debate compromise plan that would derail ‘Tesco law’
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• Pre-packaged insolvency proposals are ‘expensive duplication’
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• Edwards Duthie wins contract for first London CLAC
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• MoJ announces changes to Crown court fees
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• Yorkshire Forward launches two legal panels
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• Metropolitan Police revises document charges for civil cases
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• Expansion of barristers’ role following relaxation of bar rules
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• SRA issues advice on Quinn administration
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• Consumer panel calls for competence test for lawyers
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• Most asylum seekers wrongly denied funded representation
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• ‘Tesco law’ will put an end to hourly billing, says Lord Neuberger
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• MPs spearhead undersettlement claims drive for former coal miners
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• New family practice direction promotes mediation
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• Whitehall to consult lawyers over move to cut fees in libel actions
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• Bar offers legal aid ‘olive branch’ on criminal fee proposals
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• SRA issues advice on Quinn administration
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• Complaints against claims management companies rise 300%
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• Quinn Insurance in administration
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• SRA scraps plans to change conflicts rules
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• Lawyers warning over family experts fee cuts
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• New higher rights qualification approved
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• ‘Tesco law juggernaut halted’ in Scotland
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• Legal challenge threat to RTA process
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• SRA consults solicitors on overhaul of regulation
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• Purge of criminal legal aid firms planned
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• Women solicitors believe flexible working damages career
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• Success fee cut in defamation cases delayed by former Commons speaker
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• Explosion in demand for paralegals, thinktank reveals
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• Tories rule out ban on PI referral fees
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• O2 slams letters sent out by lawyers to alleged internet file-sharers
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• Carlton Rae acted for a man abused by Roman Catholic priest in 1976
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• Environmental search data breakthrough for conveyancing solicitors
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• Lord Neuberger calls for single appeals tribunal
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• City firms in the dark
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• EC raps UK government over environment failure
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• Libel reform bill planned after the next election
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• Chancery Lane calls for ‘radical rethink’ of legal aid funding
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• MoJ reveals top-earning legal aid firms
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• Top firms fear fee pressure
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• One in five consumers surfs internet to find a solicitor
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• Justice secretary announces court closures
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• Solicitors alarmed by associate prosecutor proposals
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• Judge Gledhill's regret over solicitor-advocate 'distress'
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• Assigned risks pool to remain open
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• Jack Straw to scrap court fees in care cases
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• Law Society of Scotland facing vote of confidence
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• Litigation solicitors targeted by money launderers
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• Conservatives pledge to re-evaluate RTA fees
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• Eady claims libel tourism is a 'myth'
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• Plan for post-charge police interview faces opposition
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• Lords demand curbs on pleural plaques compensation fees
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• Bar Standards Board agrees constitution
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• A third of home information packs ‘unsatisfactory’
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• Public sector faces high level of employment claims
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• MoJ consults on implementing Coroners Act
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• Explore legal representation for rape victims, says Stern review
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• ‘Out of touch’ Law Society of Scotland facing a vote of confidence
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• Scottish solicitors to get ‘Tesco law’ referendum
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• LSC delays payments due to ‘cash position’ problems
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• Call for conveyancers to diversify as pressure grows on fees
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• Firms enter into ‘gentlemen’s agreements’ with investors
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• Adverts for magistrates’ courts branded ‘tacky’
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• Children should give evidence, says Supreme Court
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• Call to simplify ‘intrusive’ legal aid means test
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• Staff cuts bolstering revenues in mid-tier corporate firms
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• Commerce & Industry Group in-house trainee push
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• Court staff go on strike over cuts to redundancy pay
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• Lawyer fined over deal for footballer Kanu
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• HSBC in free advice drive
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• Law firms unveil their carbon footprints
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• Libel success fees limited to 10%
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• Recruitment freezes in local government
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• Miners’ solicitors to face court action
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• Most consumers ‘cannot tell good lawyer from bad one’
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• Landmark Court of Appeal ruling on retainers
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• Carolyn Regan quits as Jack Straw turns LSC into executive agency
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• Legal Complaints Service a ‘success story’ says commissioner
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• Poverty campaign protest outside ‘vulture fund’ firm
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• Appointment of just one solicitor QC concerns Law Society
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• APIL slams government stance on asbestos claims
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• Third-party funders to form association to oversee code of conduct
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• Withers ‘in contempt’ of parliament over legal action threat
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• Government use of ADR falls – but settlement rate increases
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• Law Society launches election manifesto
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• Lawyers work ‘extreme’ overtime, study reveals
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• Only one solicitor among new QC appointments
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• Referral ban ‘will not reduce costs’
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• Committee proposes libel law changes
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• Groundbreaking college scheme sidesteps training contract
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• Law Society wins top Business Superbrands award
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• Solicitors ‘key’ to increasing judicial diversity
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• Some criminal advocates ‘not up to the job’
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• Coodes unveils online legal service
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• Insurer claims public will pay more if Jackson is implemented
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• Poorer students cannot afford to become legal aid lawyers
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• OFT calls for referral fee payment regulation
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• Pioneering public sector alliance to offer 'budget' legal services
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• Two solicitors charged over £50m of mortgage frauds
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• Law Society TUPE action reaches the High Court
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• Lawyers go back to school
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• Commission proposes radical shake-up of social care law
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• CPS updates its code for Crown prosecutors
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• Regulation of estate agents ‘unnecessary’, says OFT
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• Local government lawyers to develop new competence powers
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• SRA approves sweeping changes to practising fee charging regime
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• Women jurors more likely to change their minds than men
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• Ministry of Justice in legal aid talks with larger firms
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• Cafcass in ‘meltdown’, report claims
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• Conveyancing solicitors ‘failing’ clients over survey advice
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• Sanjeev Sharma acts for Davender Ghai over cremation rights
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• Government ‘actively assessing’ Jackson report
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• Miners' solicitors bombard government with FoI requests
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• Insurance tracking plans welcomed by personal injury lawyers
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• Irwin’s Bristol move
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• Law Society Diversity Access Scheme calls for funds
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• APIL attacks government over eligibility for bereavement damages
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• Linklaters launches fast-track LPC
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• HIPs reduce failed transactions and benefit solicitors, provider claims
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• Injured person ‘forgotten’, says APIL
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• Number of family law disputes in January much greater than expected
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• Trainee solicitors 'exploited' after qualification
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• Firms face court action risk over money laundering reports
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• Solicitors should report insolvency risk to SRA, recommends KPMG
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• LSC procurement plans show no rise in civil legal aid cases
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• ‘New era’ for family mediation in London
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• LCJ warns of 'undoubted danger’ to administration of justice
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• Legal recruiters see upturn in law firm job market
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• Class act for CPS
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• Law Society mulls Zimbabwe protest
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• Des Hudson warns that legal aid policy needs ‘radical rethink’
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• Banks predict M&A recovery in 2010
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• High numbers of women and solicitors appointed to judicial posts
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• Allen & Overy launches in Australia
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• Bar Council to launch legal action against MoJ
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• MoJ restricts civil legal aid
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• Public Accounts Committee publishes damning report on LSC
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• High Court ruling reveals lawyer’s role in £380,000 aviation ‘bribe’
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• Children ‘mistrust media’, study by children’s commissioner reveals
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• DLA Piper denies lawyer’s discrimination claim
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• Solicitors face professional indemnity challenge from insurers
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• JAC and Chancery Lane launch training package for aspiring judges
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• Solicitors could face £2K fine based on lower standard of proof
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• Local government lawyers make PC fee plea to the SRA
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• Ogier eyes Hong Kong
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• MPs attack ‘lax’ Legal Services Commission
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• Most consumers think all will writers are solicitors
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• Shoosmiths launches Access Legal consumer brand
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• MoJ shuts claims website
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• Firms feel the burden of SRA regulation
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• Website for blacklisted solicitors plans expansion
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• Conveyancing solicitors face higher bank charges over Registry portal
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• Recession fears leaves corporate and property lawyers overstretched
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• Lawyers unite to oppose further criminal legal aid cutbacks
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• Legal world comes to aid of Haitian survivors
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• Firm launches website for 'undersettled’ coal miner compensation claims
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• BRM Solicitors could repay up to £89,000 to former miners
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• MPs condemn 'serial litigant’ website
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• Law firms set up terror victim compensation scheme
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• Government unveils strategy to tackle overseas bribery
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• Tax lawyers report rise in tribunal appeals work
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• Straw to crack down on lawyers’ defamation fees
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• Solicitor comparison wesite for legal fees
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• LSC announces dates for civil legal aid tenders, but concerns remain
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• Family solicitors report rise in 'collaborative prenups’
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• Costs regime bad for environment
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• MPs warn of criminal justice 'crisis'
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• Jackson calls for success fee reform and end to PI referral fees
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• New government client care regulations ‘excessive’
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• Surprise increase in practising certificate numbers
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• Legal aid payments delayed by LSC IT glitch
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• Law Society files judicial review application over defendants’ costs cap
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• SRA makes £3m payment to help clients of Wolstenholmes
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• Top M&A advisers
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• Legal process outsourcing facing a ‘watershed’ year
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• HMRC tax break for large law firms
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• Mental health charity launches jury campaign
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• SRA warns lawyers acting in civil recovery claims against shoplifters
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• Jackson report published today
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• Chancery Lane calls for answers about legal aid tendering process
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• Chancery Lane moves to block legal aid cap for acquitted defendants
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• Tough times ahead but no more redundancies, predict conveyancers
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• ‘Breakthrough’ tax agreement helps large partnerships
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• LSB research reveals public ‘don’t know what lawyers do’
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• Local authorities team up to buy legal services
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• ‘Chaos’ predicted over virtual court pilot
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• Scottish Parliament warned that ‘Tesco law’ could trigger English invasion
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• SRA to overhaul regulation and scrap ‘unjustified’ rules
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• Solicitors ‘to profit’ from instructing barristers following BSB rule changes
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• Law Society to advise students about the risks of a legal career
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• Solicitors dismayed over chancellor's legal aid budget cuts
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• European Court of Human Rights in 'crisis'
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• Staff shortage stops Burma probe into international law firms
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• Lovells agrees merger with Hogan & Hartson
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• Government to review use of cautions
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• New guidelines for lawyers on assessing mental capacity
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• LSB sets out rules for regulators
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• Law Society threatens legal action over complaints staff
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• Law Society Charity donates £369,000 to good causes
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• Criminal legal aid firms threaten boycott of BVT pilot
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• MPs lobby to exclude solicitors from asbestos compensation scheme
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• Bar Council claims ‘privileged’ perception is ‘outdated’
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• Bar eyes contract push with new procurement vehicles
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• Law Society unlikely to introduce fellowship scheme
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• Lawyers attack government plans to extend family reporting
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• Jack Straw hints at more autonomous Welsh justice system
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• Miners' compensation solicitors lose High Court appeal
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• Anger over 'cost-cutting' plans for serious criminal cases
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• Europe appoints new justice head
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• New Law Commission chairman planning to reform adult social care law
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• SRA boosts the diversity of adjudicators
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• Chinese bar strengthens UK links
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• Legal groups publish ‘manifesto for justice’
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• First community advice network to open in East Yorkshire
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• High Court rules Beresfords solicitors should be struck off
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• SRA interventions to cost profession extra £3.6m next year
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• Quarter of firms expected to walk away from legal aid in next five years
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• Woolf calls for arbitration overhaul as he launches new guidance
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• Vulnerable defendants not helped in understanding court proceedings
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• Banks could be first to face US-style ‘opt-out’ class actions
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• Solicitor to be sentenced after stealing £90,000 from blind widow
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• Tory housing minister reignites HIP debate
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• Lawyers in UK and Ireland hit hardest by problems in property market
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• Revenues drop at top firms
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• Lisbon treaty to improve access to European courts
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• CPS consults on its ‘minimum standards’
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• City firms publish environmental performance
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• Report slams LSC over criminal legal aid
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• Cole dismisses FSA prosecution concerns
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• Norfolk solicitor who charged by file weight to be struck off
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• New matter starts shortage reaching ‘crisis level’
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• Kate Maynard acts on complaint over Rachel Nickell inquiry
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• Scrapping assigned risks pool ‘dangerous’
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• Tories to scrap HIPs
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• LawNet to strengthen solicitor ‘brand’ with new website
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• African lawyers complete training at top City firms
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• Talks on fixed fees for fast-track cases fail
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• Bar Standards Board sanctions legal disciplinary practices
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• Lawyers praise ‘brave new world’ for mental health
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• Bar Standards Board opens door to joint practices
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• Professional indemnity costs rise by £15m
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• Freshfields top for M&A
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• SRA moves to scrap assigned risks pool
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• Conservatives pledge to apply brakes to alternative business structures
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• Silverbeck Rymer faces six-figure repayment to former miners
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• ABI to introduce new voluntary code on third-party capture
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• Private equity investors focus on legal sector
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• Solicitors blamed for delays in conveyancing process
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• Jack Straw urges magistrates to keep cases in own court
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• Solicitors issue advice warning over child neglect cases
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• Whistleblowing proposals could give ‘improper bargaining power’ to claimants
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• Legal Services Board issues proposals on ABS regulation
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• Junior lawyers commended for pro bono work
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• Law firms face hefty fines for data losses
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• Rise in recruitment of junior lawyers
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• Lovells results show static revenues
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• Coroners reforms receive royal assent
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• Legal Services Board launches consumer panel
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• Mid-tier corporate firms see profits plummet
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• LCS braced for deluge of Scottish equal pay cases
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• Website launched to gather 'undersettled' coal miner claims
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• Call for better career information for law students
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• Law Society Council considers 'useful' Hunt review
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• Scrapping single renewal date for PII 'improbable', claims SRA
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• Flint Bishop finds marketing success with affiliate partnerships
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• Legal aid website
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• Unpaid volunteers not covered by discrimination legislation
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• Unpaid volunteers not covered by discrimination legislation
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• Call for change to libel laws
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• CPS rolls out national telephone charging service
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• Eversheds reports fall in turnover
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• Rise in number of intellectual property disputes
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• Fee income falls at Simmons
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• Revenues down at Allen & Overy
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• LSB consumer panel to examine referral fees
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• Prosecutors should explain sentences to victims, says attorney general
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• City firm Denton Wilde Sapte increases turnover
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• Law Society Council votes against referral fees
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• Lawyers provide £4m of pro bono work a year
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• Shanghai opening
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• Calls for single renewal date for professional indemnity insurance
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• Solicitors rebut claim that they ‘overcharge’ for legal aid work
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• ‘Failed’ Kent virtual court pilot to become compulsory
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• Money laundering regime will not be relaxed
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• Public unable to name a single law firm, research shows
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• Law China delegation to promote UK entrants
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• Regional administrative courts attract only 8% of cases
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• Government retreats on plans for contingency fees
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• Firms settle trademark dispute
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• Government offender management IT project a ‘shambles’
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• Family judgments to be made available online in pilot areas
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• Law firm partners ‘overpaid’, says Mayson
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• Red tape cut for forced marriage orders
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• CPS publishes ethical principles
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• LSC launches tender for Community Legal Advice Centre in Barking & Dagenham
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• Lovells moves closer to transatlantic merger
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• European Commission criticises lawyers over lobbying
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• Solicitors overpaid millions by LSC for legal aid work
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• Barnetts launches iPhone application
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• Solicitors join with bar to fight plans to cut advocacy rates
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• Aspiring will-writing regulator's colourful past revealed
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• Insurer refused access to SRA intervention documents
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• Recession to blame for rise in law firm investigations
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• Human rights record
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• Top solicitor jailed for cash theft
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• David Singh defends beefburger batterer
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• Conveyancers must enact 'radical' change to survive, says Chancery Lane
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• Court case results recording review shows error rate of 25%
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• APIL rejoins talks on extending fixed fees regime
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• Children and young people facing legal advice ‘crisis’, charities warn
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• Former bar chief questions wisdom of legal services reforms
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• Government launches legal helpline for families of murder victims
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• Law Society Excellence Award winners announced
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• ‘Super-injunction’ not able to gag parliament, says Prentice
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• Shoosmiths and HP in pro bono tie-in with Prince's Trust
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• Land Registry slashes one in five jobs
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• Gazette nomination
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• Claim of racial bias by insurers in indemnity cover
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• New rules will help clients to challenge solicitors’ bills
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• Lord Woolf raps solicitors for CPR failings
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• Court rules on legal privilege in Prudential case
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• ‘Super injunctions’ come under fire from senior judge
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• Law Society slams legal aid ‘shambles’
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• New legal aid rates for family advocacy
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• Call for ‘hard line action’ on coal health compensation
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• Law Society warning on unregulated will writers
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• CPS consults on changes to prosecution code
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• Litigation funder lists on AIM
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• ‘Radical reform’ planned for assigned risks pool
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• Ross Brain represents bereaved family at inquest
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• Barristers face the dock
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• MoJ review on separate budgets for criminal and civil legal aid
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• SRA rules out lowering premiums in assigned risks pool
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• MoJ shuts down miners’ claims website
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• Legal process outsourcing is ‘here to stay’
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• Joint LA panel to save £1.5M
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• SRA commissions £40,000 diversity research
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• Surge in unfair dismissal claims puts tribunals under strain
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• Collaborative law a success for divorcing couples, says judge
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• UN to help developing nations negotiate with western projects lawyers
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• Brussels simplifies rules on cross-border successions
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• MoJ announces review of legal aid delivery
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• London councils slash £1.5m in legal spend
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• Lovells ‘in US merger talks’
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• Twitter injunction
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• City law firms to lose out to regions
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• SRA considers reducing premium in assigned risks pool
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• Office for Legal Complaints to be based in Birmingham
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• Nick Oldham acts for Roland Digby, who made citizen’s arrest on youth
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• Law firms should be able to ‘self govern’, says Hunt report
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• Sole practitioners removed from Co-Op panel as no deal reached
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• Family lawyer fears over guardians’ ‘dangerous’ caseloads
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• Law firm wins injunction against departing solicitor
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• Law Society warning on legal aid cuts for vulnerable
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• Chancery Lane ‘dismay’ at Co-op’s panel cull
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• Lord Hunt publishes regulation review
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• Society's PII helpline to target assigned risks pool
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• BSB to decide barristers’ role in new legal structures
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• New sheriff in town
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• National bar leaders rally in defence of legal aid
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• Bach rejects Society’s legal aid fee cut fears
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• Support service launched for bereaved families of victims
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• 500 firms to enter assigned risks pool at indemnity deadline
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• Hike in TUPE litigation claims against law firms
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• Call for lawyers to speak plain English
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• Jamil Trawally acts for Tesco model Fatou Cham
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• MP rallies miners for legal action against legal adviser
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• Chancery Lane responds to PII concerns – statement from the chief executive
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• Personal injury lawyers hit by new fees for RTA claims
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• Ministry of Justice tackles ‘spiralling’ defamation legal costs
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• Jackson considers raising personal injury small claims limit
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• Law firm to offer all services online with new website launch
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• Bar urges halt on contingency fees reform
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• Law Society acts on ‘inflated’ indemnity premiums
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• Government moves to cut ‘no win, no fee’ libel costs
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• New guidance issued on assisted suicide law
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• SRA launches tender for new legal panel
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• Lawyers to stand trial on insider-dealing charges
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• MoJ seeks web defamation views
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• Law firms 'over the worst' of recession, PwC report reveals
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• 'Scrap training contract for unreserved work', thinktank urges
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• Halifax seeks firms for nationwide panel
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• Europe to gain new justice commissioner
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• Probate services company ITC signs deal with Barclays
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• Barristers to form ‘procurement companies’ for block contracts
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• SRA board appointment call rejected by LSB
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• Solicitors raise confidentiality concerns in virtual court pilot
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• FSA contemplates action on third-party capture by insurers
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• Law Society publishes Excellence Awards shortlist
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• Louisa Ghevaert acts for couple in frozen embryo time limit case
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• Surge in online professional networking
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• Practising certificate offer
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• Firms shut down ahead of PII renewal
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• Chancery Lane drive to promote high street solicitors
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• Aspiring judges are quizzed on race
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• SRA unveils mortgage fraud probe
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• LSB cost deferral too late to affect PC fee
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• Town halls call for monitoring officers with legal expertise
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• New Law Commission chairman appointed
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• Huge fines await regulators under LSB proposals
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• Lord Justice Goldring to become senior presiding judge
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• LSC delays tendering for civil legal aid contracts
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• Solicitors hit by HSBC bank charges on client accounts
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• Miners’ MP seeks probe into compensation payouts
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• Practising certificate fee set to rise by 19%
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• SOCA ignores call to give lawyers feedback on money laundering reports
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• Legal Services Commission asks crime lawyers to join assessment pilot
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• Claims management market booms with 60% rise in number of firms
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