- 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
- Financial Remedy Court Update
- 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
- REGISTRATION NOW OPEN: New Combined Qualifying Test for Deputy District Judge and Fee-Paid Judge of the First-tier and Employment Tribunals
- COVID-19 Business & VCSE weekly webinar – Mayor of Bristol
- Update from Bristol Law Centre re its pro-bono clinics and volunteering
- Missing Will
- 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
- Missing Wills – can you help?
- 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
- IT Help please! Are you upgrading equipment?
- Confidential contact details in Family Proceedings – Notice from BFJC
- Challenging Discrimination and Unfairness at Work
- Wessex Searches introduces Lawyer Checker’s Account and Entity Screen – Special Introductory December offer!
- The Law Society Manifesto ahead of the General Election
- BLS welcomes new President, Ben Holt
- Stamp Appeal!
- Expert witnesses give evidence ‘in the hot tub’
- Congratulations to Roger Isaacs, Forensic Accountant at Milsted Langdon on winning Partner of the Year at the British Accountancy Awards
- Nick Lee, President’s speech at Annual Awards Dinner, 24 October 2019
- BLS Annual Awards Dinner Winners 2019
- SRA Handbook Guidance -Freelance Solicitors and unregulated entities.
- Legal Mental Health Charity LawCare Launches Champions Scheme
- Bristol Legal Service – 9th October
- Bristol Giving Day – 9th October
- PSU – Same Service, New Name!
- BLS Annual Awards Dinner – 2019 Shortlisted Nominees!
- Brexit – Law Society Support for Members
- Changes to the Handbook – updated guidance from The Law Society
- Bristol Giving Day 9th October
- What are your innovation challenges? UWE and WECA are collecting info to support their work – fill in the survey now!
- Mike Lewis returns to Anexsys as new National Head of Reprographics
- Wessex Searches tailored in-house training
- Movers & Shakers – September 2019
- How to present your firm positively for professional indemnity insurance
- Who would you like to see win our Chambers of the Year Award 2019?
- The Law Society – Volunteers wanted for local media panels
- Lost Wills/ Will Banks – Urgent assistance required!
- Now or Never – Put Our Region on the LegalTech Map!
- Conveyancing offer from Wessex Searches – 20% off Groundsure all-in-one residential and commercial enviromental reports
- Pride Bristol
- Feeding Bristol – Can you or your business help children at risk of holiday hunger this summer?
- #WeAreBristol Video
- Civil and Family fee changes from Monday 22 July 2019
- Conveyancing offer from Wessex Searches – 20% off Terrafirma’s all in one bundle report
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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
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 Colston Avenue and St Stephen’s Avenue. There are a number of large public car parks within a 5 minute walk from the … 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
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 … 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
