Solicitors can work without professional indemnity insurance and freelance solicitors can work in unregulated practices – what’s new?
Are Dodgy Geezers the Future for the Legal Profession? Apologies to the model above who presumably is not dodgy at all! The SRA have today announced that freelance solicitors can work directly with the public provided they have the appropriate indemnity insurance, and solicitors can work in unregulated companies. It seems that the work solicitors do in unregulated companies has to be non-regulated work, i.e. work the solicitor does not specifically need to do. It is not clear exactly what freelance solicitors working directly with the public are allowed to do and not do, but it seems that they are allowed to do regulated activity as well as unregulated activity, provided they have the appropriate indemnity insurance in place. It is not yet clear exactly what level of protection the public will have from either group of solicitors, whether it’s those working in unregulated companies or freelance solicitors working directly on behalf of the public, but the SRA seem to have man