Legal Services Payment Orders – an underutilised tool? – 33 Bedford Row
‘Legal Services Payment Orders – an underutilised tool?’
33 Bedford Row, 29th October 2024
Source: www.33bedfordrow.co.uk
Category: legal services
AI use among lawyers soaring but impact on fees uncertain – Legal Futures
‘Four out of five lawyers are currently using or planning to use artificial intelligence (AI) tools, according to new research – but the impact on pricing remains unclear.’
Legal Futures, 24th September 2024
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
AI will have bigger impact on law than the internet, says thinktank – Legal Futures
‘Artificial intelligence (AI) will have a greater impact on legal services than the internet revolution, a roundtable sponsored by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) has predicted.’
Legal Futures, 5th August 2024
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
Time to reset legal regulation and ethics, says consumer panel head – Legal Futures
‘The new Lord Chancellor, Shabana Mahmood, needs to recognise the need for an overhaul of the legal regulatory regime, the new chair of the Legal Services Consumer Panel has argued.’
Legal Futures, 22nd July 2024
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
Notionally Flawed? Notional Assessments in LSPO Applications – Financial Remedies Journal
‘The past weeks have brought two more High Court judgments considering the practice of deducting a percentage from an LSPO applicant’s costs provision by way of a “notional standard assessment”. The first, JK v LM [2024] EWHC 1442 (Fam), was a judgment of Cobb J doubling down on the practice. The second, KV v KV [2024] EWFC 165, was a judgment of Peel J, taking a more ambivalent approach, suggesting it be used as a “cross check” and highlighting that it may operate unfairly in some cases. Cobb J’s elevation to the Court of Appeal may see his approach becoming dominant. The unfairness caused by the “notional assessments” in LSPO applications has been explored by us previously. Here we argue that it is also conceptually flawed.’
Financial Remedies Journal, 11th July 2024
Source: financialremediesjournal.com
Legal Services Act does not appear to provide stable long-term framework for regulation of legal professions: Justice Committee – Local Government Lawyer
‘The Legal Services Act 2007 does not appear to provide a stable long-term framework for the regulation of the legal professions, the Justice Committee has warned.’
Local Government Lawyer, 3rd April 2024
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
Miller: Who lawyers decide to act for is not a regulatory issue – Legal Futures
‘Who lawyers choose to act for is not a regulatory issue – and the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) needs to be clear on this, a leading legal regulatory specialist said yesterday.’
Legal Futures, 22nd March 2024
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
Ministers ask LSB to set out strategy on AI use in legal sector – Legal Futures
‘Ministers have asked the Legal Services Board (LSB) to outline how it plans to approach the regulation of artificial intelligence (AI) in the sector by the end of April.’
Legal Futures, 16th February 2024
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
Consolidation of legal regulators “may be a good thing” – Legal Futures
‘Consolidation of legal regulators “may be a good thing” if designed to achieve “the pulling together of knowledge, lessons, consumer research and engagement”, the Legal Services Consumer Panel has said.’
Legal Futures, 22nd November 2023
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
AI helps lawyers complete work quicker, study finds – Legal Futures
‘A groundbreaking study has found that using generative AI to support, rather than replace, humans results in “large and consistent increases in speed” in completing legal tasks.’
Legal Futures, 13th November 2023
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
From costs to validating advice – litigators see role for AI – Legal Futures
‘Artificial intelligence (AI) will have multiple uses for litigators, including helping with costs budgeting and validating advice to clients, a leading partner at Eversheds Sutherland has predicted.’
Legal Futures, 3rd November 2023
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
Is AI about to transform the legal profession? – BBC News
‘If there was a court case on whether society should embrace artificial intelligence (AI) or reject it, there would likely be a hung jury.’
BBC News, 19th October 2023
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Legal services T-Levels to be taught for first time this month – Legal Futures
‘The first teenagers to take the legal services T-Level, a new vocational alternative to A-Levels, are to start courses this month at half a dozen schools and colleges.’
Legal Futures, 1st September 2023
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
LSB set to beef up rules on how lawyers handle complaints – Legal Futures
‘Lawyers are facing beefed-up rules on dealing with complaints, and the prospect of how quickly they handle them being made public, under proposals published yesterday.’
Legal Furtures, 25th August 2023
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
Three-quarters of UK lawyers believe AI will increase productivity – Legal Futures
‘Artificial intelligence (AI) could help law firms most by increasing their productivity and is also likely to result in more legal work being done by those without traditional legal qualifications, lawyers have said.’
Legal Futures, 29th August 2023
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
One in four complaints to Legal Ombudsman outside new time limits – Legal Futures
‘More than a quarter (27%) of complaints made to the Legal Ombudsman (LeO) are outside the new time limits introduced at the beginning of April, it has emerged.’
Legal Futures, 16th August 2023
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
CMA investigates online divorce, will-writing and other legal services – Family Law
‘The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is keen to hear about people’s experiences with firms offering these services, over concerns that not all are complying with consumer protection law.’
Family Law, 7th August 2023
Source: www.familylaw.co.uk
