Guidance and support for setting up or running a Law Firm in England and Wales
The SRA has a page of information on common compliance issues for Lockdown. They say they will take circumstances into account if there are any breaches, but your contingency plans need to be robust.
For guidance on contingency plans – see the “handy guides” section of this site.
And click here to go to the helpful SRA advice: https://www.sra.org.uk/sra/news/coronavirus-qa/
Here’s a very helpful article written by Nicholas Woolf
I’m really impressed with this helpful checklist. Lexis Nexis have produced this very useful prep for ensuring that your firm is ready for the SRA changes.
You can download it here – https://www.lexisnexis.co.uk
It seems website compliance for law firms is harder than it looks… The SRA did a sweep and found many sites under construction or non-compliant.
The results of their sweep and some handy tips are available here: https://www.sra.org.uk/sra/how-we-work/reports/web-sweep.page
Recently the Bellwether Discussion Paper 2019 was published. I was one of the solicitors interviewed and featured in the Gazette.
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