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City optimism up but growth slowing
Professional services business volumes expanding, CBI survey says.
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Fears over closure of court canteens
HMCTS on-site catering contracts expire at the end of August.
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Society: don’t delay PII renewal
Around 95% of firms are expected to be working to the 1 October deadline.
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Complaints about insolvency practitioners rise 26%
In the first year of new complaints gateway, 941 complaints were received by regulators.
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Midlands firms build ‘department next door’
Around 130 firms from across the West Midlands have joined network to match power of big players.
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Quindell: we’re world’s top listed firm
Company posts half-year results, with pre-tax profits up 193% and turnover up 119%, after stock market roller-coaster ride.
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Cobbetts members fight £337k bank repayment
Threat of legal action halts remaining payment to secured creditor Lloyds TSB.
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Closed CPD provider owes £458k, records show
Progressive Legal Training was founded in 1995 and provided around 3,000 CPD courses across the country.
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Canada set to embrace new business models
Bar report recommends that lawyers should be free to practise ‘in any form they desire’.
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Profits dip as Irwin Mitchell invests
Equity partner profit down 14% but firm insists: ‘PEP is not the right measure for us.’
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ICAEW approved to regulate probate and license ABSs
Chartered accountancy body breaks new ground in legal market liberalisation.
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Family lawyers sound alarm on separating parents
As private family law cases plummet, fears grow that parents will take the law into their own hands.
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Liverpool PI firm falls foul of advertising standards
Association of Personal Injury Lawyers complained about ads for Hampson Hughes offering ‘upfront’ payments.
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Family system 'woefully behind' in treatment of vulnerable
Judicial working group recommends adapting criminal guidance to help family courts deal with vulnerable witnesses.
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Profits soar at Slater & Gordon
The quoted legal pioneer expects UK fee income to top £127m in 2015 in the wake of aggressive expansion.
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Firms report high trainee retention rates: survey
Several firms are keeping on 100% of their newly qualified solicitors.