SolicitorsPII

A solicitor’s Professional Indemnity Insurance policy (PII) protects you in the event that your client, or a third party, files a claim against you arising from the legal services that you provided. Negligence, breach of trust, and defamation are possible allegations. PI claims typically arise from an alleged failure to meet your duty of care. […]

The SRA Standards & Regulations took over four years to finalise and whilst many of the changes they introduced are fairly unnoticeable, this is not so for the ways in which the legal market has been widened by relaxing the ways in which solicitors can practise.  As one example, the scope of solicitors’ independent practice