Steven Taylor has joined specialist risk and compliance business Legal Eye as Compliance Adviser. Steven brings an extensive background in banking and in litigation funding as well as direct experience as a MLRO, further strengthening the depth and breadth of experience available from the Legal Eye team.
Read moreLegal Eye offers support for those firms who are required to comply with new CQS requirements by 1 May 2019. Services available include bespoke advice from specialist compliance experts along with standalone documentation also available for purchase. It is recommended that firms speak to Legal Eye about conducting a gap analysis now in order to be ready for the May deadline.
Read moreThe 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.
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