Features – Page 8
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FeatureFull interview with new SRA chief executive Paul Philip
Read our extended interview with the regulator’s new boss.
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FeatureReshaping CPD
Change is coming to continuing professional development and the SRA wants to hear your views.
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FeatureUnrated insurers: the wrong questions
Imposing a rating requirement is a short-term solution to a long-term problem. Should we review the scope of cover from the ground up?
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FeatureRiding the storm
Smaller firms that identify themselves early and take professional advice when struggling will have a better chance of survival.
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FeatureComplaints clinic: meeting clients’ needs
Make reasonable adjustments and you won’t go far wrong.
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FeatureHow To: manage documents
Electronic storage and document management brings huge benefits for law firms, but it also carries significant risks.
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FeatureOnline support for compliance
Firms yet to lodge their diversity data with the SRA may want to consider online help.
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FeatureRisk analysis
The SRA’s director of risk explains why the Risk Outlook is important and how solicitors can influence its development.
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FeatureHow To: handle OFR in-house
In-house lawyers seeking to comply with outcomes-focused regulation are dealing with a regime that is ‘dynamic’ and constantly evolving.
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FeatureEducation and training: learning curve
The profession’s regulators face complex and overlapping challenges in creating a legal education system which shifts the focus from the ‘journey’ to the point of qualification.
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FeatureHow public authorities should behave
Changes in the position of ‘intransigent and misleading public authority’
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FeatureCase fee decisions
We all like to complain. There is probably somebody sat nearby in your office complaining about something right now.
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How agents work when the SRA intervenes into a failing firm
When the Solicitors Regulation Authority intervenes in a failing practice, it is a fast-moving process – and one that is often misunderstood by clients, creditors and practitioners alike. Within hours of the decision being made, the firm’s practice accounts will be frozen and within days its files, computers and accounting ...
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Will overhaul of PII regulation soften up the market?
The shake-up of solicitors’ professional indemnity insurance has been protracted.