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Cash or control: Is PE right for your law firm?

Simon Lord provides some pointers on how to decide if private equity investment is right for your law firm

COLPs Supplement | Getting to grips with your compliance plan

So you've been nominated as your firm's COLP or ?COFA – what next? Matthew Moore outlines the main ?steps for all firms to consider. The...

COLPs Supplement | Regulatory considerations for LDPs

There are just fewer than 500 practices that have converted to LDP status since this ?format of practice became possible. Their special position has not...

COLPs Supplement | FAQs

The COLPline team considers some of the issues they are most frequently asked about, from outsourcing to avoiding conflicts in conveyancing instructions, and from money...

Barrister partnership aims for ABS status by year end

SRA-regulated barrister-led LDP plans next move as it recruits first silk

ABS countdown | Could ABS catch on outside England and Wales?

The continued recession could well make governments in other jurisdictions forget about their concerns about independence of the legal profession and abandon their opposition ?to...

Update | Judicial review

Gareth Mitchell looks at the likely impact of implementing the Legal Aid Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2011 on the funding of judicial review...

Boutique commercial firm is ABS number ten

Founder is former Browne Jacobson partner