Risk & Compliance

Articles

Hidden skeletons: Why your firm needs a whistleblowing culture

William Dawson and Eleanor Rowswell of Farrer & Co discuss the key considerations in developing a firmwide whistleblowing culture

Our search for a COLP candidate led to some difficult questions

By Ian Jeffery, Managing Partner, Lewis Silkin

Partners need to become less risk averse in the law firms of tomorrow

By Tim Aspinall, Managing Partner, DMH Stallard

Theme and variations

With the SRA about to roll out its new theme-based approach to supervision, the regulator's director for risk, Samantha Barrass, talks to Jean-Yves Gilg about how it will work in practice

The matrix, finally loaded

It took the miners' compensation fiasco and solicitors helping themselves to their firms' money one time too many for the regulatory arm of the Law Society to finally come up with a plan to tackle risk in the profession.

How to prevent employment claims by fixed-share equity partners

By Michelle Chance, Partner, Kingsley Napley

Risk management and relationship building go hand in hand

By David J. Moore, Chairman, Dove Nest Group

File-sharing action lawyer suspended for two years

Andrew Crossley, the sole-practitioner who sent hundreds of letters to web users accusing them of illegal file sharing, has been suspended for two years by the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal.