The new SRA Standards and Regulations will allow solicitors to work in non-regulated practices, carrying the title ‘solicitor’. The handbook has been extensively re-written to provide a shorter set of rules, with less guidance and indicative behaviours. More will be left to the individual judgement of the solicitor, particularly those working alone in non-regulated practices.
Read moreLegal Eye’s Director of Business Development, Jody Evans, has become a qualified ISO/IEC 27001 Information Security Lead Implementer. Jody passed the stringent examination with flying colours; becoming one of only a handful of people ever to have passed the course with a score of 100%.
Read moreThe Legal Services Board has said that a number of regulators are not meeting its requirements to provide a list of those they regulate and to include information about their disciplinary record. With the current trend towards encouraging firms to be transparent on service as well as price very much at the forefront of the regulators’ minds, firms will be interested to see what level of detail about their lawyers might reach the public domain the future.
Read moreCQS has now published its new Core Practice Management Standards (CPMS) with a deadline of 1 May for firms to comply with the requirements.
The amended standards were announced in November last year and firms will need to review their documentation in order to ensure compliance.
Your firm’s website could be one of the 500 chosen for random checks by the SRA. The regulator said yesterday that it intends to carry out the checks to ensure that they are meeting new requirements for price transparency. Informal reviews carried out to date suggest that many firms may not escape closer scrutiny and could face a rebuke or possibly a fine for non compliance
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