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The UK's largest independently owned legal IT provider, Eclipse Legal Systems, has announced integration with the new 'Lawyer Checker' service
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What is the profession to do about the escalating costs of intervention in firms that either have already failed or are failing fast?
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Egencia, the business travel division of the Expedia, Inc. group (NASDAQ: EXPE), and Concur (NASDAQ: CNQR), the global leader in integrated travel and expense management, today announced a global partnership to make the process of expensing business travel faster, easier and more accurate for mutual customers.
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A new business guide has been launched online today by one of the UK’s leading Cloud and IT service providers, to help businesses in the legal sector survive a potential disaster.
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A recent survey of over 1,200 UK workers commissioned by Concur, a leading provider of integrated travel and expense management solutions, whose expense management, audit and compliance services are used by thousands of companies across the globe, has revealed that public sector workers have a much stricter attitude towards expense exaggerating than their private sector counterparts.
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The Solicitors Regulation Authority’s (SRA) chief executive Antony Townsend has announced that he will
be stepping down later in the year.
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The status quo over reserved and unreserved legal activities is unsustainable and the answer may be for all legal advice to be regulated, the chief executive of the Legal Services Board has suggested
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The SRA say that the new ‘growth duty’ could give rejected firms and individuals the opportunity to challenge any decision to refuse approval of a new law firm or alternative business structure.
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SRA set to relax rules on non-material breaches as nearly 1,000 firms face COLP/COFA action.
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IntApp, Inc., provider of innovative software products that enable law firms to thrive in an increasingly competitive marketplace, today announced that Lewis Silkin, a full-service commercial firm based in London, has deployed IntApp Open as part of a strategic initiative to streamline new client review and accelerate new matter inception.
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McMillan Williams, a multi branch hub and network based firm of solicitors has installed Omnia Legal Software’s eponymous program, to provide LASPO compliant time recording and costs budgeting functionality.
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For compliance officers to understand their regulatory obligations under OFR it is important for them to understand that the SRA themselves operate within a risk management framework and that the identification and management of risk is central to the achievement of their objectives.
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Samantha Barrass, SRA executive director, has said the regulator has identified around 150 firms "experiencing very significant financial difficulty".
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The Legal Services Board (LSB) is to keep the performance of the Solicitors Regulation Authority in issuing alternative business structure (ABS) licences under scrutiny, it has emerged.