- 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
- LSB State of Legal Services Report 2020, draft strategy and business plan consultation – end 5th Feb 2021
- 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
- Trustees wanted at the Solicitors Benevolent Association
- 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
- Govt Funding for Re-Training those whose roles at risk from AI/automation
- Digital Workshops to Help the Underrepresented Pursue a Career in the Legal Sector
- Movers & Shakers!
- Financial Remedy Consent applications- change of procedure
- Risk Management by Marsh JLT Specialty- Webcasts, Retainer Letters Pt 1 & Pt 2
- 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 and free webinar
- 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
- COVID-19 testing extended to those solicitors who are key workers.
- Abrahams Dresden streamlines Legal Accounts management with Insight Legal Software support
- Ben Holt, BLS President, Legal Life May Update
- COVID-19 Personal Hardship Fund for Solicitors – SBA
- COVID-19 Business & VCSE weekly webinar – Mayor of Bristol
- Update from Bristol Law Centre re its pro-bono clinics and volunteering
- The human factor – How your people can help to protect your organisation from cyber threats
- Contacting Bristol Crown Court – 31/3/20
- BLS Covid-19 update and useful links for members
- Reconnecting Assets with their Rightful Owners – Landmark Legal
- HMCTS daily updates – Covid-19
- The Law Society – Covid-19 Guidance
- Dispute Resolution: How can solicitors help cash-strapped clients?
- Urgent help – can your manufacturing clients help with ventilator manufacture?
- Lloyds Bank customer business advice – Covid-19
- Are you facing a Covid-19 Cashflow crisis? Milsted Langdon provides some guidance.
- How do you keep morale high when working remotely?
- Helping you work safely during Covid-19 – Cyber security guidance for remote working
- His Honour Judge Roderick Denyer QC
- The Law Society – Appointments to Committees
- Old copies of The Digest need re-homing – can you help?
- Could you be a family court magistrate? Please share.
- Warner McCall Resilience appoints new Commercial Director as it expands its team
- Movers & Shakers
- The Law Society Golf Club – best kept secret?!
- Cyber security guidance and certification options – Warner McCall Resilience
- History – do you know what became of Henry Pomeroy & Sons?
- Is your Innovation Programme delivering real value?
- The Law Society – Contribution of the UK Legal Services Sector to the UK Economy
- ELA – Gender Diversity at the Bar – Monitoring your firm’s instructions to Counsel – Can you help?
- Helping the legal sector build resilience to cyber threats – WMR Report on recent event
- This Doesn’t Look Like Justice – The parlous state of criminal justice in the South West.
- LAWCARE 2019 FIGURES: MORE LAWYERS SEEKING HELP AND CALLS ABOUT BULLYING CONTINUE TO RISE
- LAWCARE AND ACADEMICS LAUNCH ‘FIT FOR LAW’ TO COMBAT STRESS IN THE LEGAL PROFESSION
- Professional User Access Scheme at the Bristol Civil and Family Justice Centre from Wednesday 22 January 2020
- BLS welcomes Warner McCall Resilience as new cyber security partner
- TLT’s Robert Bourns awarded City of London Law Society Lifetime Achievement Award at the British Legal Awards
- Foot Anstey advises Future plc on acquisition
- Feeding Bristol – BLS President’s Charity of the Year
- Shareholders at war – Court influenced by Milsted Langdon accountant on true value of business
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Corporate Members 2020
3PB Albion Chambers Ashfords Barcan + Kirby Burges Salmon Clarke Willmott Cooke Painter Ltd Clyde & Co DAC Beachcroft Devereux & Co Enterprise Chambers The Family Law Practice Foot Anstey (including Enable Law) Fussell Wright Gregg Latchams Ltd Guildhall Chambers Irwin Mitchell Solicitors Kelcey & Hall Lyons Davidson Marc White & Co Meade King Michelmores LLP MS Rubric Osborne Clarke … more
BLS features in Bristol Post oldest thriving companies in Bristol
Excerpt from the article: How Bristol’s oldest companies are still thriving after more than 100 years in business They include the city’s last-surviving chocolate maker a wine merchant and a tannery. Why do some companies struggle to survive beyond a year while others flourish for hundreds? Although more than 90 per cent of small companies in Britain will survive one … 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. We can be contacted on info@bristollawsociety.com. In the meantime, our office is now operating as the Bristol Nightingale Court and accordingly, we are unable to hire out our facilities until further notice. (Oct 2020) Bristol Law Society’s suite … 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. We can be contacted on info@bristollawsociety.com. In the … more
BLS Celebrates its 250th Anniversary in 2020!
BLS is the oldest Law Society in the country having been founded at the Bush Tavern in 1770 by a group of lawyers looking to share the cost of legal … more
