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Jonathon Bray Ltd | United Kingdom | 23 Sep 2020
The SRA Transparency Rules require solicitors to publish price and service information on their websites
The SRA Transparency Rules require solicitors to publish price information on their websites in the following practice areas...
LK Shields | Ireland | 21 Aug 2020
COVID-19 and Solicitors’ Professional Indemnity Insurance
When the financial crisis struck in 2008, a deluge of claims against solicitors followed. Shane Neville considers the likely fallout from the current…
Troutman Pepper | Singapore, USA | 15 Apr 2020
Virtual International Arbitration and the COVID-19 Pandemic: One Institution's Approach
In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, the flexibility of arbitration is on full display. Unlike courts, which must clear bureaucratic hurdles to…
Kingsley Napley | United Kingdom | 7 Apr 2020
Insolvency Service investigations into trading companies
The Insolvency Service describes itself as the government agency that provides public services to those affected by financial distress or failure…
Bristows | United Kingdom | 7 Apr 2020
COVID-19: Proposed amendments to insolvency law aim to provide breathing space for struggling companies
The Government recently announced that it plans to introduce emergency changes to current UK insolvency law to ease the pressure on businesses (and…
Buckley LLP | USA | 18 Feb 2020
U.S. Solicitor General: Supreme Court can decide on severability clause without deciding CFPB's future
On February 14, U.S. Solicitor General Noel J. Francisco filed a reply brief for the CFPB in Seila Law LLC v. CFPB, arguing that the U.S. Supreme…
Clyde & Co LLP | United Kingdom | 12 Dec 2019
Putting things right: the SRA’s new guidance on own-interest conflicts
Historically, there has been a practice of solicitors rectifying mistakes made on existing files (where possible) in order to cure an own-interest…
DAC Beachcroft | United Kingdom | 10 Apr 2019
The SDT seeks to change the standard of proof
In March 2014 the Legal Services Board (“LSB”) recommended that the Civil Standard of Proof should be adopted in regulatory proceedings against all…
DAC Beachcroft | United Kingdom | 2 Apr 2019
The Role of Liability Experts in Claims against Solicitors
Where a claim is brought for professional negligence, the court will generally expect to be provided with some expert evidence to enable it to decide…
DAC Beachcroft | United Kingdom | 2 Apr 2019
Duty to Warn in Co-extensive with a Solicitor's retainers
The Court of Appeal on 25 October 2018 dismissed an appeal which challenged a judge's finding that a solicitor was not under a duty to warn a client…
