Tishka Chapman has been a Partner in Wolferstans' Residential Conveyancing team for 16 years. She's seen the job change: the compliance, the technology, the pace clients now expect.

The Legal Services Board has ditched plans that would have increased pressure on regulators to improve diversity in the profession.

A solicitor who campaigned for couples who suffer a miscarriage to have two weeks of unpaid leave has said she will go on until it is paid.

A strict page limit on outlining the case would help judges struggling to cope with litigants in person using AI to draft their claims.

Private equity-backed Canford Law has made it second major acquisition in a fortnight, with the deals doubling its size nationally.

The PM Law review’s real findings perhaps point to a failure mode applying to any organisation sitting on scattered risk information.

Listed personal injury group NAHL is poised to be in a “net cash position” after increasing its revenue by 5% and profit before tax by 31%.

A criminal defence solicitor who became involved with a client in the supply of cocaine and class C drugs is among three men to be jailed.

The SRA has bowed to pressure from the profession and announced a “pause” in its implementation of the new compliance officer rules.

AI is acting as “an informal form of pre-complaint ‘triage’” that is more likely to influence consumers not to complain than to complain.

The SRA has bowed to pressure from the profession and announced a “pause” in its implementation of the new compliance officer rules.

The SRA has bowed to pressure from the profession and announced a “pause” in its implementation of the new compliance officer rules.

What happens when lawyers delegate cognitive work to AI but remain personally responsible for judgements they may not have reasoned through?

The first pilots under the Online Procedure Rules went live yesterday, covering digital possession claims in three county courts.

The Bar Standards Board is to pause work on new applications from foreign lawyers looking to requalify as barristers.

The SME & Boutique Law Firm Alliance will have the chance to call for a vote of no confidence in the SRA at next month’s Law Society AGM.

The High Court has set aside a decision to add and serve a defendant after finding the case was “not fairly presented” to the judge.

Ison Harrison has made its first acquisition outside Yorkshire, buying North-West practice Dootsons and increasing its office count by three.

A barrister who tried to conduct a remote employment tribunal hearing from trains in Germany has been ordered to pay wasted costs.

Law firms must be careful not to impose policies on client account interest that set too high a de minimis threshold.

The legal profession has “tried effectively to outsource its soul to its regulators” by substituting ethics with not acting illegally.

When I had the pleasure of work experience, I made tea, collected lunch and mostly watched someone work. I was a silent observer.

Payouts from the car delivery charges collective action will start at £25, with the class to receive up to £56m of the £93m total settlement.

A conveyancing solicitor jailed for 30 months after defrauding a Hereford law firm out of at least £161,000 has now been struck off.

The Crown Court has allowed six barristers to record proceedings instead of taking manual notes, “a leap into uncharted territory”.

Lawyers are wrong to think that the need for human judgement will protect them from AI, Professor Richard Susskind has argued.

The Lawyer UK 200 list of top law firms has been released and personal injury law firm Express Solicitors has improved on its ranking again, coming in at number 60, up four places from 64 in 2025.

How far should a defendant be permitted to go in seeking a claimant’s historic medical records where there is no demonstrated connection between those records and the injury pleaded?

Law firms cannot talk seriously about burnout without talking first about how they design the work junior lawyers do.

The public is largely ignorant of how to access independent advice organisations and only a quarter realise they are free.

The SDT has rejected a second application to return to the roll from a solicitor struck off for dishonesty, less than a year after the first.

Pogust Goodhead is to change its name after Harris Pogust demanded it do so and Thomas Goodhead switched firms in the Mariana Dam case.

This week’s Carter-Ruck ruling could be bad news for some solicitors under investigation by the Solicitors Regulation Authority..

For those working across housing disrepair, there is a danger in viewing every case primarily through the condition of the property.

The collapse of PM Law was the “predictable outcome of a regulatory architecture built for a different market and a different time”.

A paralegal who was convicted of a public order offence and lied to her employer about why she was not in work that day has been banned.

The High Court has ordered a former client to pay a solicitor £9,500 for posting a defamatory review on Google.

A judge has criticised a solicitor who failed to ensure that an elderly testator understood a change made to his instructions.

Stephen Webber and Ruth James of Hugh James discuss the progress the firm has made towards achieving settlement of claims for thousands of serving and retired armed servicemen and servicewomen

An immigration firm fell below its expected standards “in a number of respects” but this did not justify withdrawing its licence.

The national Law Society and Birmingham Law Society have argued against SRA plans for law firms which use litigation funding.

A judge laid up at home in bed after surgery on a ruptured Achilles tendon should not have heard an optician's disciplinary appeal by video.

Four in 10 law firms would actively consider third-party investment, while some firms will go bust without client account interest.

A major research project examining the challenges, ambitions and priorities of Welsh law firms will give the sector its first opportunity to see the findings when the Welsh Legal Sector Transformation Report 2026 is unveiled in Cardiff next month.

Express Solicitors has reported a record £117.2 million group turnover for the financial year ending August 2026, marking a substantial rise from last year’s £87.1 million.

All disclosure to the SRA must exclude LPP material, which will not only hamper investigations but also cause additional work.

A paralegal jailed after bombarding his ex-partner with threats has been banned from the legal profession.

There are an estimated 31,000 people in the UK carrying out expert witness work and many are making a decent living from it.

It would be “unwise” for solicitors not to reply to questions from clients about whether they had paid commissions to ATE providers.

The Solicitors Regulation Authority has been left as “little more than a paper tiger” by the High Court ruling on privileged material.