Practice Registration Form (dispose)...
Posted by admin in Uncategorized on 09 23rd, 2011 | Comments Off
If you are interested in disposing of your practice either by sale, merger or take-over and you would like to be put in contact with firms who might be interested in your firm, then please complete the form below and submit it to the Lawyers Defence Group. Although anonymised details may be published...
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LSB publishes new research into regulati...
Posted by admin in News Items on 09 20th, 2011 | Comments Off
20 September 2010 The Legal Services Board (LSB) has today published new research carried out on behalf of the Board by Charles Rivers Associates (CRA). The research examines the interaction of regulatory interventions with the particular segment of the legal services market taken up by city law firms. The...
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Practice Register...
Posted by admin in Practice Register on 09 16th, 2011 | Comments Off
Problems in practice The 2011 – 2012 practising year is likely to see many firms struggling to survive. Problems with professional indemnity insurance, rising costs, reductions in publicly funded work and the general decline in instructions will be compounded by the entry into the market of...
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Professional Indemnity Insurance 2011 &#...
Posted by admin in Professional Indemnity Insurance, Professional Indemnity Insurance on 09 16th, 2011 | Comments Off
As the date for professional indemnity insurance renewal approaches, it is becoming clear that in many cases it will again be the indemnity insurers who have the final say as to which firms live and which die. Anxiety is running high in some quarters as to whether insurers will make an offer and whether...
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Professional Indemnity Insurance 2011 &#...
Posted by admin in Professional Indemnity Insurance, Professional Indemnity Insurance on 09 16th, 2011 | Comments Off
Where insurance is not obtained on the open market and where a merger or takeover is not possible, options remain extremely limited. The Law Society has negotiated a scheme to secure further insurance quotes but, in some cases, insurance at an acceptable premium is impossible to fund. The options tend...
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Professional Indemnity Insurance 2011 &#...
Posted by admin in Professional Indemnity Insurance, Professional Indemnity Insurance on 09 16th, 2011 | Comments Off
Can you succeed without being a successor? Happily, the answer is yes provided the cheque book can come out. The definition of ?successor practice? is contained in the Minimum Terms and Conditions of Professional Indemnity Insurance for Solicitors. Minimum Terms are varied occasionally and not always...
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Practice Opportunities Available...
Posted by admin in Practice Register on 09 15th, 2011 | Comments Off
The following is a list of those practice opportunities available. If you would like more details about any of the opportunities listed below, please email the Lawyers Defence Group at register [Email address: register #AT# lawyersdefencegroup.org.uk - replace #AT# with @ ] stating which opportunity...
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