Profession
The Legal Services Board has set out its commitment to broadening access to the legal profession.
In a preview to its forthcoming business plan for its first year in operation, the Board said it would “broker constructive working relationships between the profession, its regulators and the providers of legal education; and ensure that diversity and social mobility issues” are at the heart of its work.
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Ling Ong, partner at Weightmans and president of London Market FOIL, discusses her biggest inspirations, the challenges of AI and the importance of tackling unconscious bias
Director and head of IP team joins in Birmingham
Firm boosts partnership and costs practice with five senior promotions
From blockbuster judgments to procedural shake-ups, the courts are busy reshaping litigation practice. Writing in NLJ this week, Professor Dominic Regan of City Law School hails the Court of Appeal's 'exquisite judgment’ in Mazur restoring the role of supervised non-qualified staff, and highlights a ‘mammoth’ damages ruling likened to War and Peace, alongside guidance on medical reporting fees, where a pragmatic 25% uplift was imposed
