Legal Eye will be exhibiting at the Legal Futures Regulation and Compliance Conference in London on 6 June. Regulation and compliance have never been more of a priority for law firms – and on top of that, the SRA’s new Standards & Regulations come into force later this year. This major conference brings together experts from a range of disciplines – as well as all the leading regulatory bodies – to examine the ever-growing challenges to lawyers, with a particular focus on the new solicitors’ rulebook, professional indemnity insurance, wellbeing and fraud.
Read moreWith 400 randomly-selected UK law firms currently being assessed by the SRA concerning the suitability of their AML policies and procedures; Legal Eye is on hand to help firms to address the challenge.
How confident are you that your AML processes are robust? Could you benefit from an independent analysis of your current procedures and policies? In response to client demand Legal Eye is now offering a one-day AML Risk and Compliance Gap Analysis.
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 moreWith the deadline fast approaching for firms to provide their diversity data to the SRA, Legal Eye are offering a support service to save law firms time and to ensure the data is returned correctly and on time.
In June all SRA-regulated firms will be required to collect, report and publish data about the diversity make-up of their workforce. Firms are now expected to do this on a bi-annual basis and the SRA has confirmed that it is acceptable to use a third party to assist with the exercise.
JC Lawyers has achieved the Legal Eye Quality Standard in recognition of its proactive and robust approach to risk management.
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