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By Paul Jones
Solicitors will recall that from the 6th of December 2018, SRA regulated legal firms must publish their fee information on their websites (or in alternative format easily available if they don’t have a website). To go with this, firms must publish the process for each of the different services offered, and the names, status and experience of the fee earners providing them.
By Paul Jones
As we approach the deadline for firms to report their diversity data to the regulator, we thought a reminder right about now might be timely, as in our day-to-day cpm21 interactions with Solicitors firms, we have been surprised about how many don’t realise this needs to be done, or that submissions have to be completed by the 30th of July 2021.
By Wayne Williams
Yesterday, 16th of June 2021, the LAA published the schedule for its crime tender.
The new contract will commence on the 1st of October 2022.
By Paul Jones
(A Welsh Language version of this article follows the English language version.)
Issue 92 of the SRA’s Compliance Bulletin would have appeared in Solicitor Firms’ email inboxes last week, and there were some warnings of what is to come from the SRA over the coming year.
By Paul Jones
With the intense focus by the SRA on Anti-Money Laundering over the last year or so, it should not be any surprise that the regulator has decided it can’t wait for lockdowns to be over and it wants to get a picture of how firms are managing their Money Laundering obligations, especially as this time last year their AML Directorate Team were carrying out on-site audits, but for obvious reasons that stopped.
By Wayne Williams
On 18th November 2020, I wrote a news article reminding firms that the SRA were actively monitoring compliance and setting out the information etc. that needed to be on your website.