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Survey: not-for-profits eye charging for advice to survive LASPO
Monday, 8 April 2013Nearly a fifth of not-for-profit legal advice centres are planning to charge for services as a strategy to survive cuts in legal aid, a study into the impact of the reforms has revealed. But the study found widespread fear of redundancy across the sector.
Tags: legal aid, Legal Aid Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act, not-for-profit
Posted in Latest news, Market monitor
SRA set to offer informed guidance but not safe harbour over referral fee ban
Tuesday, 22 January 2013The board of the Solicitors Regulation Authority will tomorrow be asked to confirm an outcomes-focused approach to implementing the referral fee ban, along with a commitment to develop guidance “as our knowledge of different schemes increases” – although this will fall short of ‘safe harbour’ advice.
Tags: Legal Aid Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act, Legal Services Board, referral fees, Solicitors Code of Conduct, Solicitors Regulation Authority
Posted in Latest news, Solicitors
Government will not set limit on payments permitted under referral fee ban exception
Friday, 23 November 2012The government is not currently planning to set an upper limit on payments that are exempt from the referral fee ban as “consideration for services”, it has announced. The news came as the Claims Management Regulator issued preliminary guidance on how it will approach the ban.
Tags: claims management companies, Legal Aid Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act, referral fees
Posted in Latest news, Other lawyers, Solicitors
InjuryLawyers4u confident over referral fee ban as it opens up panel for first time in eight years
Wednesday, 14 November 2012InjuryLawyers4u, arguably the UK’s leading solicitors’ marketing consortium, is opening up its panel for the first time in more than eight years. There are currently 43 firms on the panel, collectively spending millions on advertising the service.
Tags: Legal Aid Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act, marketing, personal injury, referral fees
Posted in Latest news, Marketing & PR
Law centre submits ABS application as not-for-profit sector gears up for legal aid cuts
Monday, 5 November 2012A north London law centre is on course to become the first owner of a not-for-profit alternative business structure, subject to receiving approval. The venture is an example of government-approved efforts by law centres to mitigate the effects of legal aid cuts.
Tags: legal aid, Legal Aid Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act, not-for-profit
Posted in Alternative business structures, Latest news
Smith: put online NHS Direct for law at heart of radically reformed legal aid system
Monday, 22 October 2012An online NHS Direct for law, supported by 30 law centre-type operations in key areas around the country, should form the basis of a radical new approach to publicly funded legal services, according to a leading legal thinker.
Tags: legal aid, Legal Aid Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act, Online Legal Services
Posted in Latest news, Technology, Uncategorized
SRA: firms will have to decide for themselves if they are breaching referral fee ban
Wednesday, 5 September 2012It will be for law firms to work out if they are complying with the ban on referral fees in personal injury cases, with the law drafted in such a way to make some collective marketing schemes “vulnerable to being in breach”, the Solicitors Regulation Authority has warned.
Tags: Legal Aid Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act, referral fees, Solicitors Regulation Authority
Posted in Latest news, Solicitors
LSB warns regulators over referral fee ban as government unveils CMC crackdown
Thursday, 23 August 2012The Legal Services Board has warned regulators not to go further than the legislative requirements for the impending ban on referral fees in personal injury, calling for “a liberal approach” that does not prevent alternative business structures effectively circumventing it.
Tags: Alternative business structures, claims management companies, Legal Aid Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act, Legal Services Board, personal injury, referral fees
Posted in Alternative business structures, Latest news, Legal Services Board, Marketing & PR
SRA finds support for outcomes-focused approach to referral fee ban
Monday, 13 August 2012There is broad support for an outcomes-focused approach to implementing the ban on referral fees in personal injury cases, according to early indications from the Solicitors Regulation Authority’s consultation on the issue.
Tags: Legal Aid Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act, OFR, outcomes-focused regulation, referral fees, Solicitors Regulation Authority
Posted in Latest news, Marketing & PR, Solicitors
Complex legal products risk the law’s own mis-selling scandal, ombudsman warns
Wednesday, 11 July 2012The Chief Legal Ombudsman today warned of the risk of a payment protection insurance-type scandal engulfing the legal profession after collecting evidence of clients being sold complex and confusing legal products that they often struggled to understand.
Tags: fixed fees, Legal Aid Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act, legal expenses insurance, Legal Ombudsman, LeO
Posted in Latest news, Legal Ombudsman
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Keeping the conversation going beyond Pride Month
As I reflect on all the celebrations of Pride Month 2024, I ask myself why there remains hesitancy amongst LGBTQ+ staff members about when it comes to being open about their identity in the workplace.
Third-party managed accounts: Your key questions answered
The Solicitors Regulation Authority has given strong indications that it is headed towards greater restrictions on law firms when it comes to handling client money.
Understanding vicarious trauma in the legal workplace
Vicarious trauma can happen to anyone who works with clients who have experienced trauma such as domestic or other violence, child abuse, sexual assault, torture or being a refugee.
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