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NLJ this week: What rules apply to non-solicitor employees in a law firm?

02 December 2022
Issue: 8005 / Categories: Legal News , Profession , Regulatory
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To what extent do the rules of the profession apply to non-solicitor employees? More than you may think. In this week’s NLJ, John Gould, senior partner at Russell-Cooke, writes: ‘Surprisingly, every employee within a firm is a regulated person whether or not they are personally engaged in reserved legal activity.’

While marketing, IT and accounts obviously play a crucial role in the running of a law firm, what about those employees whose work is more peripheral to the actual business of the firm? What happens if, for example, someone doing the cleaning bins a crucial document?

Gould provides some answers and suggests more clarity may be neededread his article here.

Issue: 8005 / Categories: Legal News , Profession , Regulatory
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