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DAS Law launches graduate academy as staff numbers top 200
Friday, 6 May 2016DAS Law – the alternative business structure set up by the eponymous legal expenses insurer – is launching a pioneering graduate academy for “lawyers of the future”, with the first six recruits starting next month. Staff numbers at the firm have doubled to around 220 since it was created in 2013.
Tags: Alternative business structures, Education and training, legal expenses insurance, personal injury
Posted in Alternative business structures, hrtraining, Latest news
Leading legal expenses insurer sets up an ABS
Friday, 26 July 2013Well-known legal expenses insurer ULR Additions has won approval to set up an alternative business structure. However, the license from the Solicitors Regulation Authority restricts the work LEI Legal Services Ltd can undertake.
Tags: ABS, Alternative business structures, legal expenses insurance
Posted in Alternative business structures, Latest news, Market monitor
Simpson Millar and DAS bring pre-paid legal services to the UK
Monday, 4 February 2013National law firm Simpson Millar has joined forces with legal expenses insurer DAS to bring insurance-backed pre-paid legal plans to the UK, offering cover for a wide range of contentious and non-contentious work – including conveyancing and personal injury.
Tags: legal expenses insurance, pre-paid legal services
Posted in Latest news, Market monitor
… as Saga expands into fixed-fee private client services and bids for ABS status too
Wednesday, 3 October 2012Over-50s specialist Saga has today launched a new range of legal services which it claims aims to make the market “more straightforward in terms of charges, language and accessibility” – and has also applied for an alternative business structure licence.
Tags: ABS, Alternative business structures, conveyancing, fixed fees, legal expenses insurance, probate, will-writing
Posted in Alternative business structures, Latest news, Market monitor
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
Abbey Protection unveils three-pronged ABS plan for SME market
Wednesday, 28 March 2012Well-known legal expenses insurer Abbey Protection is to launch a three-pronged attack on the SME market once its application to become an alternative business structure has been approved, it has revealed.
Tags: ABS, Alternative business structures, ATE insurance, legal expenses insurance, Solicitors Regulation Authority
Posted in Alternative business structures, Latest news, Market monitor
DAS Group grows significantly as results show return to profit
Thursday, 9 February 2012The DAS UK Group increased gross written premiums by 16% in 2011, returning a profit of almost £7m after tax.
Tags: legal expenses insurance
Posted in associate news, Uncategorized
Joined-up thinking between ARAG and Go2mediation
Monday, 9 January 2012Legal expenses insurer ARAG, a Legal Futures Associate, has struck a deal with online mediation business Go2mediation to help both reduce the costs of litigation and save policyholders the time and stress involved in court proceedings.
Tags: legal expenses insurance
Posted in associate news, Uncategorized
Law Society targets BTE test case as competition watchdog seeks action over way legal cover is sold
Thursday, 15 December 2011The Law Society is targeting a fresh attack on before-the-event legal expenses insurers by seeking out a test case that aims to loosen their grip on policyholders’ choice of solicitor, it has emerged. The news comes as the Office of Fair Trading called for improvements in the way insurers sell the product.
Tags: Financial Services Authority, Law Society, legal expenses insurance, Office of Fair Trading
Posted in News
CPS drops charges against solicitors and doctors accused of ATE insurance fraud
Monday, 5 December 2011The Crown Prosecution Service has dropped charges against 11 solicitors and doctors who were accused of a £4m referral fee fraud involving after-the-event legal expenses insurance. The lawyers may instead be referred to the Solicitors Regulation Authority.
Tags: fraud, legal expenses insurance, Solicitors Regulation Authority
Posted in News, Solicitors
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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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