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Nick Hilborne

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Associate Editor at Legal Futures

Associate Editor at Litigation Futures

Associate Editor, Legal Futures. Lives on the banks of the River Quaggy in leafy SE12.

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  • “Manifestly incompetent” solicitor suspended over running of firm

    2 days ago | legalfutures.co.uk | Nick Hilborne

    A sole practitioner who was dismissed as a consultant after selling their firm has been suspended for three months by the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal (SDT). The anonymous solicitor, ‘AM’, accepted that they had been “manifestly incompetent” in allowing serious breaches of the accounts rules to go uncorrected, having “abrogated responsibility for resolving issues to a member of staff”.

  • No “generalised” ethical failure among solicitors, insists Law Society

    4 days ago | legalfutures.co.uk | Nick Hilborne

    High-profile scandals like the Post Office are “not indicative of a generalised failure of ethical standards within the profession”, the Law Society has insisted. However, the profession has raised concerns about the quality of the ethics component of the Solicitors Qualifying Exam (SQE) and it might be necessary to “promote more specific teaching”.

  • City partner “erroneously” paid out £2.2m to developer client

    5 days ago | legalfutures.co.uk | Nick Hilborne

    A partner at DWF has been fined £14,000 for wrongly approving £2.2m in payments to a developer which later went bust, leaving the firm to recompense out-of-pocket buyers. Mark Shepherd, a partner in DWF’s London real estate team, told the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal (SDT) that he was “not aware” that the senior paralegal in charge of the plot sales team in the firm’s Manchester office did not have any legal qualifications.

  • Law firms “must tell clients how to complain at end of cases”

    6 days ago | legalfutures.co.uk | Nick Hilborne

    Law firms must tell their clients how to complain at the end, as well as the beginning, of their cases, under new rules proposed by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA). A further rule change would require solicitors to make sure complaints information was “clear, accessible and in a prominent place” on their websites.

  • Three out of 10 GCs plan to cut spending on external lawyers

    6 days ago | legalfutures.co.uk | Nick Hilborne

    Nearly three out of 10 corporate general counsel (GCs) plan to cut spending on external lawyers – the highest proportion since 2020, a report has found. A majority said they also expected a higher proportion of legal work to be carried out in-house in five years’ time, a view shared by only a third of external lawyers.

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Nick Hilborne
Nick Hilborne @nickhilborne
29 Apr 25

I'm glad the conclave has been postponed to May 7. Having missed the film, it means my conclave DVD might actually get here before the real one is over. There's been a run on conclave DVDs - not surprising really.

Nick Hilborne
Nick Hilborne @nickhilborne
23 Apr 25

https://t.co/CNVWHYE2Za Seems logical to me. Star lawyers make a good department even better and a bad one even worse.

Nick Hilborne
Nick Hilborne @nickhilborne
23 Jul 24

There's clearly some anxiety that the message isn't getting through. https://t.co/vFcEdhUrXv