Profession

Simon Young puts ABSs under the spotlight

Should lawyers be sworn in? Jennifer James has her doubts

Self-regulation likely to be welcomed by City solicitors

First injunction served via social networking site

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.

Deborah Newberry considers AB & others v Nugent Care Society

As legal aid limps past 60, Elsa Booth suggests the adoption of some alternative funding pathways

Jane Ching looks at making the most of, & going beyond, CPD

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.