- Notification of Bristol Law Society AGM
- BLS Awards 2021 – Winners Announced!
- Thomson Reuters 2021 UK Small and Medium Law Firm Market (UKSMLF) report
- NEW RESEARCH INTO LAWYER WELLBEING MAKES CASE FOR PROFESSION-WIDE CHANGE
- HMCTS – Family Public Law Service Mandation
- BLS Annual Awards Dinner 2021 – Shortlist announced!
- Insight Legal wins the ILFM Solicitors’ Software Users Award 2021
- BLS’ new Annual Dinner Sponsor LCR provides 5 reasons to Mediate Costs Disputes
- Bristol City Council – Consultation on priorities deadline 26th Sept
- Dispute Resolution in England and Wales – MOJ call for evidence – deadline 30 Sept
- Employment Advice from Bristol Law Centre is changing
- Howden’s second Solicitors Market report of 2021 is now ready.
- HMCTS – Safely increasing capacity in our buildings from 19 July 2021
- The transformational powers of workflow – Article by Insight Legal
- Contested Financial Remedy Applications – HMCTS Update June 2021
- COVID-19: Operational notice for external court users of Bristol Civil and Family Justice Centre
- 2021/22 round of Queen’s Counsel honoris causa (honorary silk) awards by inviting nomination
- Promotions and retirements at Wards
- Burges Salmon receives platinum Investors in People accreditation
- EU Settlement Scheme – deadline 30th June!
- Nine Feet Tall Host Legal IT Panel Discussion on Digital Transformation
- Contested Financial Remedy Applications – HMCTS Update
- SRA agrees to Law Society’s request for SIF extension
- Are you working from home or living at work? Article by Insight Legal
- The Law Society Good practice for supervision of junior staff and trainees article May 21
- SRA Closure of the Solicitors Indemnity Fund (SIF)- Article by BLS Council member
- Howden proud to announce new PII sponsorship of the Bristol Law Society
- Online Applications under S8 Children Act 1989
- Law Care Resources #MHAW 10-16 May 2021
- The Law Society Awards 2021 are now open for entries
- Lateral Flow Test Guidance for local stakeholders: Bristol Civil and Family Justice Centre – April 21
- Myanmar update post delegation visit in 2019
- Closure of the Solicitors Indemnity Fund
- BLS back apprenticeship campaign
- Legal Services Board – Launch of Reshaping Legal Services: a sector-wide strategy
- LawCare News March 2021
- Bristol City Initiatives of interest to the local legal Profession
- Bristol One City- March Newsletter
- New report reveals significant LegalTech cluster in Bristol & Bath
- Boost for small businesses as free and independent service for unresolved bank complaints goes live
- Financial Remedy Court Update – HHJ Cope
- Fighting for fairness for Junior Lawyers
- What is ESG and what does it mean for law firms?
- LawCare Impact Report 2020
- Could you or someone you know be a Family Court Magistrate?
- Yeovil Law Courts – COVID update 26th Jan 2021
- Obituary – Matt Ashley, Osborne Clarke
- WECA Recovery Taskforce Update
- WECA Recovery Taskforce
- The Legacy of Coal Mining
- Has your software supplier been taken over? Should you stay or should you go?
- Feeding Bristol – President’s Charity of the Year – Webinar
- Ben Holt AGM Round-up Video
- WECA support for business and residents
- Law Firms Must Adapt and Respond to Pandemic Led Industry Change
- The Law Society: Law under lockdown: the impact of COVID-19 measures on access to justice and vulnerable people
- Research project on the Language of DIY Justice, focusing on communication challenges experienced by LIPS in civil proceedings
- Covid 19 Business Interruption Insurance Claims: Business and Property Courts in Bristol
- HM Courts and Tribunals Service – COVID operating hours
- South West Skills Survey – Weston College and Business Leader magazine
- The Law Society: Law under lockdown: the impact of COVID-19 measures on access to justice and vulnerable people
- BLS to host Nightingale Court – round-up of press coverage
- Obituary of Mark Chawner
- Crime – new payment fee to cover work completed for sending hearings comes into effect on 19 October 2020.
- LAWCARE LAUNCHES GROUND-BREAKING RESEARCH STUDY ‘LIFE IN THE LAW’ – DEADLINE 15th Jan
- Used Stamps Appeal
- VWV Lawyer Appointed As Bristol’s Honorary Consul for Germany
- How is your workplace changing due to Covid-19?
- Hays – New Diversity & Inclusion Report 2020- Flexible working, equality & Covid-19
- Bristol + Bath LegalTech Survey – please complete!
- Call for evidence on Judicial Review by IRAL – close 19/10/20
- Movers & Shakers!
- Financial Remedy Consent applications- change of procedure
- Will Search
- Feeding Bristol’s Healthy Holidays 2020
- New study shows online legal mediation could be the future
- Urgent Court Notice – Wearing of Face Masks
- Safer working at the Bristol Civil and Family Justice Centre -You tube video:
- Mobile Device and Laptop Covid-19 Appeal
- 2020/21 Queen’s Counsel Honoris Causea nominations
- Survey – The Disclosure Pilot in the Business and Property Courts – 18 months in
- Wessex Searches – Different office – same great service
- Note from HHJ Wildblood on Family Listing
- Junior Lawyers – we’ve got your back – SBA The Solicitor’s Charity
- Are you Fit for Law? LawCare updates
- Online Mediations Survey
- Trainees – The Law Society updates – Covid-19
- DAC6 :Update and Risk Management Recommendations
- Solicitor’s Regulation: Are the New STaRs a Supernova or Blackhole?
- What is coaching and why should lawyers care?
- How the right processes, supported by technology can lead firms to new success – Insight Legal
- Law Society – Furloughing and Return to Work updates/toolkits
- Law Society – Reductions on cost of Accreditations
- Law Society Practice Note on Supervision
- Bristol CFJC HMCTS Risk Assessments for Court Users
- Movers & Shakers
- The National Will Register are holding their annual Free Will Registration Month from Monday 18th May 2020.
- BLS & Milsted Langdon Survey on users experience of virtual hearings
- LawCare released data on all COVID-19 related contacts
- Legal Walks Update and the Community Justice Fund
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Notification of Bristol Law Society AGM
Agenda 2021
Corporate Members 2021
3PB Albion Chambers Ashfords Barcan + Kirby Battens Beale & Co BLM Burges Salmon Clarke Willmott CMS CMNO Cooke Painter Ltd Clyde & Co DAC Beachcroft The Family Law Practice Foot Anstey (including Enable Law) Fussell Wright GL Law Guildhall Chambers Irwin Mitchell Solicitors Lyons Davidson Marc White & Co Meade King Osborne Clarke Paragon Costs Solutions Queen Square Chambers … more
No 12, The Meeting Rooms – Conference, Meeting and Mediation Rooms for Hire
Please note that the BLS office is shut to members at present as we continue to work from home during the pandemic. Bristol Law Society’s suite of conference and meeting rooms including a suite of mediation rooms are conveniently located in the centre between the Waterfront Area and the Old City in a modern building situated on the corner of … more
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Members & Benefits
Bristol Law Society is a private members’ local law society of about 4500 which represents and supports the local legal community. Membership is renewable annually and is open to all … more
Legal Recruitment
Please note that Bristol Law Society no longer provide a recruitment agency service to local firms and individuals. We now offer the following recruitment solutions: Branded Direct Jobs Board Advertising … more
No 12, The Meeting Rooms – Conference, Meeting and Mediation Rooms for Hire
Please note that the BLS office is shut to members at present as we continue to work from home during the pandemic. Bristol Law Society’s suite of conference and meeting … more
New report reveals significant LegalTech cluster in Bristol & Bath
A new report from Whitecap Consulting, conducted with support from key regional stakeholders, has found impressive levels of LegalTech activity, capability and employment across legal service providers, tech firms and … more
