The LSRA office will be closed over the Christmas period. We wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. LSRA complaints phone service Christmas opening hours: The LSRA complaints phone service will be closed over the Christmas period and will reopen at 10a.m. on Monday 6 January 2025. If you wish to [...]
Simmons & Simmons (Ireland) LLP becomes first solicitor-barrister legal partnership under new regulatory framework Press release: Tuesday 26 November 2024 The Legal Services Regulatory Authority (LSRA) today welcomes the first legal partnership to be formed in Ireland under the new regulatory framework for this alternative business structure. Simmons & Simmons (Ireland) LLP is the first law [...]
Almost 1 in 4 of all closed complaints successfully resolved Over quarter a million euro in compensation ordered to clients €354,020 in unpaid barristers’ fees recovered following complaints to LSRA Press Release: Wednesday 30 October 2024 The Legal Services Regulatory Authority (LSRA) today marks five years of its independent handling of complaints about solicitors and barristers, [...]
Press Release: Tuesday 8th October 2024 6 in 10 legal practitioners surveyed welcome legal partnerships as a positive development for Irish legal services 1 in 5 law firms likely to become a legal partnership in next five years The Legal Services Regulatory Authority today marks the introduction of a new business structure which for the first [...]
Press Release: Wednesday 18th September 2024 The Legal Services Regulatory Authority (LSRA) today [18 September 2024] publishes a series of research reports and makes recommendations for reforms to tackle economic and other barriers facing aspiring and early career legal professionals and to increase diversity in the legal professions. The Breaking Down Barriers reports follow an [...]