Midlands law firm Wright Hassall held talks with 28 possible acquirers or merger partners over the course of a year before being sold in a pre-pack administration to one of them.

The SRA's new thematic review into source of funds and wealth reveals both progress and persistent blind spots, with ...

Katch Fund Solutions – which is funding consumer claims worth hundreds of millions of pounds – has put its litigation fund ...

The government has gathered a group of leading figures in the law and business into the English Law Promotion Panel with the ...

Delays in the county courts are finally on the decline but they still comfortably exceed a year for anything but the small ...

The SRA will respond “sympathetically” to self-reports from those who may have been operating incorrectly under the terms of ...

The managing partner of a fast-growing, employee-owned Yorkshire law firm says it is ready to expand outside the county after ...

A ban on referral fees and an increase in the small claims limit are among ideas floated yesterday by the government to curb “unscrupulous” behaviour in housing disrepair cases.

A City solicitor suspended for a year after a second police caution for possessing cocaine has had conditions on his return ...

An estate agency has been praised for publicly disavowing future demands for referral fees, describing them as “the quiet ...

While SRA fines for AML have been climbing, many in the profession aren’t confident they will get any relief from the FCA, a ...

A solicitor who failed to spot red flags for potential fraud/money laundering while acting on two loans worth £464,000 has ...