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A conveyancing paralegal who tried to cover up her mistake in not sending an updated plan to the buyers’ solicitor has been banned from working in the profession.

An assistant solicitor who took over a firm after the principal was struck off allowed her to keep practising under her maiden name, use the firm’s office and be sole signatory on its bank accounts.

https://www.legalfutures.co.uk/latest-news/assistant-turned-senior-partner-let-struck-off-solicitor-maintain-control?utm_source=iContact%2BWeekly%2BNewsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=legal-futures&utm_content=

Inez Brown from Harrison Clark Rickerbys says she will focus on flexible working, technology and inclusion during her one-year term

https://www.business-live.co.uk/professional-services/birmingham-law-society-appoints-first-18668110?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=sharebar

Hello and thank you for having me. Firstly I’d like to offer my apologies that I am not able to attend every meeting of the Bar Council, but rest assured I do appreciate the Bar Council and our CPS representatives attend keep me updated.

Law firms need to have the courage to employ diverse and even abrasive characters who help disrupt the legal sector and ensure it does not fall behind other industries, a legal technology seminar heard this week.

https://www.legalfutures.co.uk/latest-news/legal-sector-must-be-bold-and-embrace-disruptive-tech

City giant Herbert Smith Freehills (HSF) either compromised its independence or provided incompetent advice in its work for Lloyds Banking Group on the Reading scandal, a group of MPs and peers has claimed.

https://www.legalfutures.co.uk/latest-news/mps-call-on-sra-to-investigate-city-firm-over-bank-scandal

Criminal defence barristers have made a desperate plea to peers for government support to survive the Covid-19 crisis, with solicitors agreeing that the profession was in dire straits.

https://www.legalfutures.co.uk/latest-news/barristers-plead-with-peers-for-government-covid-support

A legal assistant who lied about passing his legal executive exams so that his law firm employer would reimburse the course fees has been banned from working in the solicitors’ profession.

https://www.legalfutures.co.uk/latest-news/legal-assistant-banned-after-lying-about-passing-exams?utm_source=iContact%2BWeekly%2BNewsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=legal-futures&utm_content=

A solicitor who was the ‘go to’ lawyer for a gang of criminals because he would not ask too many questions about where their money came has been struck off while serving seven years in jail.

A global law firm has predicted that as many as 80% of its workforce will remain transient or permanently working from home after the Covid-19 crisis ends, with only around a fifth being full-time office workers.

https://www.legalfutures.co.uk/latest-news/covid-19-will-change-law-firm-offices-forever?utm_source=iContact%2BWeekly%2BNewsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=legal-futures&utm_content=