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NewsSimmons aims for 15% BAME partners by 2025 – up from 14% this year
Simmons Simmons joins host of City firms setting ethnicity targets.
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Council ordered into mediation after row over solicitor attending
Local authority turned down mediation over special educational needs because mother wanted lawyer with her.
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'Extremely worrying': suspects wrongly released under investigation
Inspectors identify domestic abuse and sexual offences cases where bail with conditions should have been used.
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Ince teams up with Chinese firm in Asian expansion
Ince and W H Law Firm enter ‘strategic cooperation’ to gain access to the restricted Chinese market.
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Five innovators first to play in the Lawtech Sandbox
Participants will have access to data and engagement with 11 regulators, including the SRA.
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Judicial sanctions remain at high level despite pandemic
Three judicial office holders have been disciplined for misuse of social media this year.
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Profession condemns 'appalling' trolling of defence lawyer
Barrister who defended killer of seven-year-old Emily Jones was targeted online at the weekend.
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More City firms return furlough money
Eversheds Sutherland and DAC Beachcroft have now repaid government money after strong pandemic performance.
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ABS pioneer facing closure blames 'dysfunctional' insurance market
SRA-mandated system 'does not work in a hard market', claims Notary Express founder.
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Acland-Hood leaves courts & tribunals service for good
Former chief executive of HMCTS accepts role as permanent secretary at Department for Education.
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Society ex-president to sit on HRA review
Simon Davis, immediate past president of the Law Society, among two solicitors named today.
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Barrister who refused breath test fined £400
Barrister undermined integrity and public trust, disciplinary tribunal finds.
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Small claims taking almost a year to come to trial
Trials in the county court down across the board from July to September this year.
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Buckland unveils Human Rights Act review
Government does not have any preconceived ideas, lord chancellor insists.
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Report hails lawtech boom
Law Society president David Greene says the sector is ‘strong and growing exponentially’.
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Virtual Lawyer seeks AI partners
Developers of online letter generator want to build a 'real-life community of lawyers to take more of a collaborative approach'.
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Cash for courts upgrade in doubt
Lord Burnett confirms business case for securing funds to finish modernisation programme by 2023 was presented to Treasury in October.
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Hundreds of back-office staff face axe at Covid-hit firms
City firms review need for secretaries and business support staff amid the pandemic.
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News focus: Post-Beckwith, SRA must focus on 'what matters to clients’
Will the SRA stop insisting 'solicitors are paragons of virtue' in their private lives?
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Buckland and Patel work to resolve virtual remand hearings crisis
Officials have carried out 'intensive work' to identify practical solutions after police withdrew support.
