David Greene charts the latest developments in the legal services revolution
The Legal Services Board (LSB) recently published a report prepared by consultants Oxera into the monitoring of changes in the legal service sector (A framework to monitor the legal services sector, 20 September 2011). The report follows in the wake of the Legal Services Act 2007, Pt 5 of which is now being put into effect with the introduction of alternative business structures (ABS). The report seeks to establish monitoring tools to measure changes in the business of law. For those involved in litigation, however, this change in the structure of law firms is but the latest in the constant revolution for supply of legal services in the sector.
Lord Woolf’s legacy
The revolution for litigators started ten years ago with Lord Woolf’s report and the changes to civil procedure that flowed. Such have been, and continue to be, the changes, that it is difficult to sit back and see not only where we have been but where we are going.
The Woolf reforms did not achieve all that
