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12 March 2009
Issue: 7360 / Categories: Legal News , Profession
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Client Care

The Law Society is to spend £100,000 to establish a consultancy service for solicitors’ firms identified as in need of client care assistance.
About 200 firms will benefit from the service, which is part of a broader £275,000 package for firms. A client care and complaints handling helpline will also be launched, and the Law Society will give £105,000 to fund two additional scholarships per year for five years under the Solicitors’ Diversity Access Scheme.
The initiatives are funded by the £275,000 fine for inadequate complaints handling imposed last year on the society by the legal services complaints commissioner.

Issue: 7360 / Categories: Legal News , Profession
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MOVERS & SHAKERS

Hugh James—Phil Edwards

Hugh James—Phil Edwards

Serious injury teambolstered by high-profile partner hire

Freeths—Melanie Stancliffe

Freeths—Melanie Stancliffe

Firm strengthens employment team with partner hire

DAC Beachcroft—Tim Barr

DAC Beachcroft—Tim Barr

Lawyers’ liability practice strengthened with partner appointment in London

NEWS
Ceri Morgan, knowledge counsel at Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP, analyses the Supreme Court’s landmark decision in Johnson v FirstRand Bank Ltd, which reshapes the law of fiduciary relationships and common law bribery
The boundaries of media access in family law are scrutinised by Nicholas Dobson in NLJ this week
Reflecting on personal experience, Professor Graham Zellick KC, Senior Master of the Bench and former Reader of the Middle Temple, questions the unchecked power of parliamentary privilege
Geoff Dover, managing director at Heirloom Fair Legal, sets out a blueprint for ethical litigation funding in the wake of high-profile law firm collapses
James Grice, head of innovation and AI at Lawfront, explores how artificial intelligence is transforming the legal sector
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