Legal regulators launch major education ...
Posted by admin in News Items on 11 22nd, 2010 | Comments Off
22 November 2010 Three legal regulators, the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA), the Bar Standards Board (BSB) and the Institute of Legal Executives Professional Standards (IPS), are jointly to review legal services education and training in the regulated legal sector. The core aims of the review...
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IOP to produce transatlantic competency ...
Posted by admin in News Items on 11 22nd, 2010 | Comments Off
22 November 2010 The UK’s Institute of Paralegals (IOP) has announced that it is partnering with New York City Paralegal Association (NYCPA) to produce joint competency standards. The standards, which will be available at no charge, will assist firms to standardise paralegal recruitment, appraisal,...
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Paralegals to become eligible to apply f...
Posted by admin in News Items on 11 12th, 2010 | Comments Off
12 November 2010 Following discussions between the Institute of Paralegals and the Judical Appointments Commission during 2009 and 2010, the JAC has now confirmed that senior paralegals are eligible to apply to become judges of First-tier tribunals. The JAC is currently advertising vacancies of interest...
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ILCA now officially ILFM...
Posted by admin in News Items on 11 12th, 2010 | Comments Off
12 November 2010 To keep in line with current developments in the world of legal finance, The Institute of Legal Cashiers and Administrators has confirmed that it will as of today be known as The Institute of Legal Finance and Management (ILFM). The ILCA has long been acknowledged as the foremost organisation...
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Kafka ? required reading for tomorrow?s ...
Posted by admin in Blog on 11 11th, 2010 | Comments Off
One of those strange co-incidences happened this morning. I was looking up the precise definition of ?Kafkaesque? on Wikipedia
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Alternatives to intervention ? proposals...
Posted by admin in Blog on 11 11th, 2010 | Comments Off
Intervention in a solicitors? practice is, it would appear, again on the increase with interventions this year likely to be close to the all-time previous high of 113 reached in 2000.
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LSCP proposes legal quality audits...
Posted by admin in News Items on 11 11th, 2010 | Comments Off
11 November 2010 The Legal Services Consumer Panel has called upon legal regulators to improve the quality control of, and information provided about, the performance of their regulated lawyers. A study of consumer perspectives on quality in legal services has revealed that consumers assume all lawyers...
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SRA reveals plans for ABS...
Posted by admin in News Items on 11 9th, 2010 | Comments Off
09 November 2010 The SRA disclosed its plans for ABSs in a speech delivered by SRA Chair Charles Plant at The Lawyer conference on alternative business structures, on 8 November 2010. The speech revealed that the SRA see their main challenge as the regulation of those ABSs which “involve combinations...
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Technostress...
Posted by admin in Technostress, Uncategorized on 11 5th, 2010 | Comments Off
This article has been provided by LawCare – health support and advice for lawyers   Life in today?s world has given rise to a whole range of new phenomena and our vocabulary has had to expand as new maladies have been identified. We are familiar with the concepts of desk rage and road rage...
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Depression ? the hidden hazard...
Posted by admin in Depression on 11 5th, 2010 | Comments Off
This article has been provided by LawCare – health support and advice for lawyers   The problem with a mental illness is that the suffering being endured cannot be seen from the outside. An arm or leg in plaster, a limp, a bandaged head, all evoke immediate sympathy and concern, but when...
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An addict? Moi?...
Posted by admin in Dealing with addiction on 11 5th, 2010 | Comments Off
This article has been provided by LawCare – health support and advice for lawyers   Recognising that you are subject to an addiction is not easy. There is a built-in denial mechanism in all of us, and in those of us who are lawyers (and who are thus, by definition, ambitious high achievers,...
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SRA appoints independent reviewer for co...
Posted by admin in News Items on 11 4th, 2010 | Comments Off
04 November 2010 The Solicitors Regulation Authority has announced that the Independent Complaint Resolution Service, the body set up to hear complaints against the Land Registry and the Housing Ombudsman, has been appointed as an independent reviewer to handle complaints about the service provided by...
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Cutting out the clutter...
Posted by admin in Blog on 11 4th, 2010 | Comments Off
Am I alone in believing that there is simply too much information out there. Apparently not as an international survey of legal professionals undertaken by Lexis Nexis has revealed that information overload is a widespread and growing problem for lawyers everywhere and is lowering productivity and...
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