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The Legal Services Board is hosting a virtual discussion event on the sector-wide strategy for legal services. We’re inviting practitioners, academics, legal and advice centres based in Wales to share your thoughts and experiences on the challenges facing the legal services, and the strategy to address these in the Welsh context. The strategy, published at…

Read Reshaping legal services: an online Welsh discussion event, 07 June, 3:30pm – 5:00pm

The Legal Services Board (LSB) has confirmed that it will develop and consult on a more robust approach to ensuring lawyers remain competent throughout their careers. In a new report published today, the LSB notes that while legal regulators have comprehensive measures to make sure that legal professionals are competent when entering the legal profession,…

Read LSB sets out options for ensuring the ongoing competence of lawyers

In November 2020, the Committee on Standards in Public Life wrote to regulators to understand better how existing regulators are adapting to the challenges posed by AI. We responded noting the challenges and questions that AI poses for the legal services sector, and how our next phase of work will consider the role of AI,…

Read Our response to the Committee on Standards in Public Life: Artificial Intelligence and Public Standards

We began our first Board meeting of the new year by reflecting on the webinar we hosted last week to share our State of Legal Services 2020 report’s findings.  Over 120 people attended to discuss the challenges and opportunities facing the legal service sector.  Everyone agreed unmet legal need is a significant problem and that…

Read Chair’s Blog – January Board meeting

On 14 Janaury 2021, from 3:30 pm to 5:00 pm , we hosted an online event to share the findings of our State Legal Services 2020 report and our draft strategy. Following the publication of our State of Legal Services 2020 report, we have developed a draft strategy for the legal services sector, which we are currently…

Read State of Legal Services 2020 webinar

The Legal Services Board (LSB) has published annual reports on the performance of the eight legal services regulatory bodies. Each organisation regulates different types of lawyers and carries out its responsibilities in different ways. Nevertheless, they have the same responsibilities under the Legal Services Act 2007 (the Act) and are assessed against the same 27 outcomes…

Read LSB pushes legal regulators to drive up performance and improve governance

2020 has been challenging for people who need legal services and for some parts of the profession. The Covid-19 pandemic has strengthened our resolve to work with others to reshape legal services to better meet the needs of society. This blog outlines some of the projects we have collaborated with others on this year to…

Read Review of 2020: collaborating to reshape legal services

Our (virtual) offices are closed from the afternoon of Thursday 24 December, reopening on Monday 4 January at 9am. If you have any queries, please email ContactUs@legalservicesboard.org.uk and we will respond on our return. Best wishes for the holiday season.

Read LSB Christmas office closure