I took this job to change legal services market, says new LSB chair (LF)
Sir Michael Pitt, the new chairman of the Legal Services Board, has said he took the job to “help change the legal services market”.
SRA confirms another month of falling firm numbers (LSG)
The number of solicitor firms has fallen by almost 800 in the past two years, new figures have revealed.
Agents that are charging buyers, rather than sellers, criticised (PIE)
Industry trainer Adam Walker and Winkworth director Hugh Dunsmore-Hardy – a former chief executive of the NAEA – have both said it is totally unacceptable.
When did lawyers become less reputable than insurers? (LSG)
The government has announced that lawyers and claims firms are to be banned from offering incentives such as free tablet computers to encourage people to make insurance claims.