A long-serving executive at Lewis Silkin has been barred from working in the profession for falsifying information relating to the City firm’s Legal 500 entries.
Senior business development executive Emma Shears, who is not a solicitor, worked for Lewis Silkin from 2004 until her resignation last November. The Solicitors Regulation Authority found that between October 2020 and October 2021, Shears fabricated two confirmation emails from The Legal 500 in relation to the firm’s 2019 and 2020 submissions to the directory. She also created the 2020 application after the submission deadline and sought to pass it off as being submitted on time.
In a ruling published this week, the regulator found that Shears had been dishonest. She was barred under a Section 43 order from working in a legal practice and ordered to pay £600 costs.
