The Legal Services Regulatory Authority is pleased to share a new webinar for legal practitioners on the introduction of legal partnerships. Legal partnerships are an innovative business structure for legal services providers in Ireland. Solicitors and barristers who wish to operate as legal partnerships are now permitted to do so under a regulatory framework introduced by [...]
Introducing our Complaints Case Studies web page. You can browse our case studies to learn about issues that lead to complaints to the LSRA, how we investigate complaints, and how they might be resolved or avoided. We hope these offer useful insights for consumers and legal practitioners alike about the issues that commonly give rise to complaints [...]
Eight members have been appointed by the government to the LSRA, including six new appointments and two re-appointments. The government appointed Mr Tom Boland, who was nominated by the Higher Education Authority, to be the Authority’s new chairperson. He will replace the outgoing Chairperson, Dr Don Thornhill, who held the position since the establishment of the [...]
Simmons & Simmons (Ireland) LLP becomes first solicitor-barrister legal partnership under new regulatory framework Press release: Tuesday 26 November 2024 The Legal Services Regulatory Authority (LSRA) today welcomes the first legal partnership to be formed in Ireland under the new regulatory framework for this alternative business structure. Simmons & Simmons (Ireland) LLP is the first law [...]
The LSRA today publishes an Implementation Plan for the 32 reform recommendations in its Breaking Down Barriers reports which are aimed at tackling economic and other barriers facing aspiring and early career legal professionals and increasing diversity in the legal professions. As part of the implementation plan, the LSRA intends to establish and manage an implementation [...]