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SRA warns law firms about investment schemes
September 23rd, 2016
The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) has issued a warning notice has been published telling solicitors about the risks of involvement in such schemes after a number of reports were received of law firms being linked to potentially fraudulent incidents where ...
More than 1,000 new legal firms will be created this year in UK
September 13th, 2016
More than 1,000 new solicitor firms will be created in 2016, official statistics suggest, a 30% increase on the last two years. From 1 January to 31 July, 612 new business entities were authorised by the Solicitors Regulation Authority. ...
Public Interest Lawyers to close down
August 16th, 2016
Theresa May said to be pleased at closure of Public Interest Lawyers, which submitted allegations of unlawful killing The government has said it is planning a clampdown on legal firms pursuing what it calls “spurious claims” against military personnel ...
Regulator warns that fake law firms number is on the rise
July 28th, 2016
The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) has issued an announcement to advise law firms and the public to be vigilant, with reports of bogus firms doubling since 2012. In SRA’s annual Risk Outlook report launched today (25 July), SRA caution that bogus firms ...
Cashier jailed after stealing office money from international law firm
July 25th, 2016
A cashier at a leading international law firm has been banned from the profession and served a jail sentence after stealing over £700,000. Juliette Holland, 46, was found to have misappropriated at least £727,597 of office money between March ...
Solicitor jailed for three years over £360,000 wine scam
June 24th, 2016
A London solicitor has been jailed for three years for laundering at least £100,000 of the proceeds of a fine wine investment scam. Michael Lloyd Wilson, former boss of Global Wine Investments, which shut down in 2012, was sentenced ...
An international law firm partner fined for sexist emails
June 16th, 2016
An international law firm partner who exchanged a series of sexist and offensive emails with his client for more than a year was today fined £15,000 by the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal. DLA Piper partner Nicholas William West replied to a ...
Privately educated dominate senior ranks at top law firms
May 18th, 2016
The biggest diversity survey of the legal profession yet undertaken charts patchy progress on gender and race – but privately educated solicitors remain vastly over-represented in the senior ranks of the biggest firms. The Solicitors Regulation Authority’s third diversity ...
SRA shuts down five firms in the space of a week
April 12th, 2016
The Solicitors Regulation Authority today closed a fifth firm in the space of a week following suspicions of dishonesty. The regulator intervened into Huddersfield firm Taylor Knight and Wolff Ltd citing reason to suspect dishonesty on the part of ...
SRA highlights IT innovation in the legal sector
March 17th, 2016
Use of technology can enable law firms to do more for clients, according to the latest marketplace report from the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA). The IT and Innovation paper highlights how creative use of IT can help legal work ...
