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Understanding in-house solicitors professional obligations employer - Guidance

This guidance is to help your employer understand the regulatory duties and standards you must comply with as an in-house solicitor.

Transparency in price and service - Guidance

To help you understand your obligations under our Transparency Rules.

Topic:

Client care

Representing clients during claims for financial services or products

This guidance will help you to understand what we expect when you represent clients during these claims.

Use of non disclosure agreements (NDAs) - Warning notice

This reminds those we regulate of some of the key risks and issues when advising on the use of NDAs.

Topic:

Misconduct

Money missing from client account - Warning notice

Relevant to all firms and individuals we regulate but is particularly relevant to you if you are a manager of a firm or a firm's COFA or COLP.

Mergers, acquisitions and sales of law firms - Warning notice

Relevant to all firms and individuals we regulate who are thinking of or in the process of acquiring other law firms and seeking to sell or merge their law firm with another regulated entity

Strategic Lawsuits against Public Participation (SLAPPs) - Warning notice

There is a concern that solicitors and firms are engaged in a type of abusive litigation, known as strategic lawsuits against public participation (SLAPPs), on behalf of their clients.

High-volume financial service claims - Warning notice

Solicitors must act with integrity and uphold the high professional standards that we and the public expect.

Immigration work - Warning notice

Over a period of time we have also identified risks around solicitors producing poorly drafted applications, or advising their clients to pursue totally without merit appeals of Home Office decisions through the courts. 

Supporting your client with interviews during external investigations - Guidance

This explains your obligations when supporting your client in interviews with external agencies.