Risk & Compliance

Articles

5 Sept 2012

Legal services sector needs new 'ethical dashboard'

Ethics benchmarking essential to maintaining confidence in the profession at times of dramatic change

4 Sept 2012

SRA will not issue 'safe harbour' guidance on referral fee ban

Regulator acknowledges lawyers' concerns but says specific guidance would go against the principle of OFR

29 Aug 2012

Changing brakes: Regaining control of client intake procedures

Lars Lindencrone Petersen shares how centralising firmwide compliance procedures improved Bech-Bruun's risk management

10 Aug 2012

Complaints | Taking a common sense approach

Handling complaints is largely a matter of common sense 'but a systematic approach will help minimise the risk, 'says Michelle Garlick

25 Jul 2012

Trust in lawyers goes down, but so does misconduct

New claims on the Compensation Fund fall from just under 3,700 to just over 2,000

16 Jul 2012

The big picture: The problems with professional liability insurance

Thomas Berman discusses why the US professional liability insurance marketplace has changed little in 20 years

12 Jul 2012

Balancing risks: How the SRA's FP2 affects PII

Elliott Vigar, head of regulation at the Law Society of England and Wales, explores the fallout from the SRA's second-stage financial protection review

12 Jul 2012

Fault lines: How a risk audit can help with securing PII

Frank Maher, a partner at Legal Risk, explores how risk audits ?can help with obtaining professional indemnity cover