The long-awaited pay rise for duty solicitors is a positive step in our campaign for fairer legal aid rates for our members.

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The government must invest in the family court system to provide the public service that children and families deserve, ...

Law Society of England and Wales looks at what 2025 holds for the legal sector as it celebrates its bicentenary.

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Sign up to attend an in-house networking event in Newcastle to understand the Worker Protection Act 2023's duty to prevent ...

The growth from £6.7bn in 2021 to £8.4bn in 2022 to £9.5bn in 2023 shows that the international demand for English law is ...

The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) has introduced a new route to qualifying as a solicitor: the Solicitors Qualifying Examination (SQE). What do you need to do to qualify with the SQE? SQE1 ...

Our solicitor ambassadors share their experiences of entering the legal profession, including the challenges they faced and how they overcame them. Reflecting on their career path, each ambassador ...

Your weekly update from the Law Society’s public affairs team on all the latest developments and debates in Parliament and across Whitehall. This week: criminal legal aid, data bill and UK-Switzerland ...

The Legal Ombudsman has made some welcome progress in reducing its case backlog. However, we're concerned about the pace of ...

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