Individual and business consumers will play a key role in shaping the future regulation of lawyers.
Timothy Dutton QC considers the impact of the Legal Services Act on the independent Bar
Simon Young turns his attention to complaints in his final article on the impact of the Legal Services Act
Excellence Awards 2009
Anyone interested in the future of legal services or in the management of a law firm should grab a copy of Lord Hunt’s Review of the Regulation of Legal Services.
Little attention has been paid to a quiet revolution so profound that many solicitors’ firms may end up as quasi-alternative business structures. For over a decade, firms have been employing paralegals in ever greater numbers. They have also been delegating ever more complex, client-facing, work to paralegals. That fact is old news; what’s new is that we are approaching the point when paralegal fee-earners in firms may begin to outnumber solicitors—where solicitors become a minority in their own profession.
“Bombed—lost everything”. That was how one London Citizens Advice bureau memorably recorded the nature of the legal problems for the newly dispossessed “streams” of clients approaching the nascent service. War was declared on 3 September 1939 and the first bureau opened its doors the next day.
As legal aid limps past 60, Elsa Booth suggests the adoption of some alternative funding pathways
New measures for regulating lawyers, including a lay majority on each regulatory board, have been branded a “curate’s egg” by the Law Society.
The Law Society has published its shortlist for this year’s Excellence Awards.
Projects and rail practices strengthened by director hire in London
London tech and comms team boosted by telecoms and regulatory hires
Real estate team in Birmingham welcomes back returning partner