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The Legal Services Regulatory Authority (LSRA) has published its fourth progress report on the implementation of recommendations to address barriers facing aspiring and early career solicitors and barristers arising from the Breaking Down Barriers project.

The Legal Services Regulatory Authority (LSRA) has marked ten years since its establishment as Ireland’s independent regulator of legal services, highlighting a decade of practical reform and setting out its focus on trusted, accessible and responsive legal services for the future. To mark the

The number of newly qualified solicitors in Ireland rose by 54 per cent last year, while the number of new barristers increased by 10 per cent, according to a new report from the Legal Services Regulatory Authority (LSRA). The LSRA's Pathways to the Professions 2025 report documents the number of pe

The Legal Services Regulatory Authority (LSRA) received 1,000 complaints about solicitors and barristers during the past six months, an increase of 19 per cent on the previous six months. A total of 1,139 complaints were closed in that time, its latest report shows. The LSRA can investigate thr

The Legal Services Regulatory Authority (LSRA) has welcomed progress on the implementation of recommendations to address barriers facing aspiring and early career solicitors and barristers. Developments include expanded training routes, increased financial supports and diversity initiatives are set

The Legal Services Regulatory Authority (LSRA) has set out a three-year plan to help achieve "an Ireland where legal services are trusted and accessible to all". The regulator today published its strategic plan for 2025-2028, developed over a six-month period with input from staff and more than 200

Training providers will soon begin to collect data about the diversity of student barristers and trainee solicitors in Ireland, according to a new report. The Legal Services Regulatory Authority (LSRA) today published its second six-month update documenting progress made towards its recommended acti

There are now over 15,000 practising solicitors and barristers in the State, though the growth of both professions is beginning to slow, according to a new report. There were 12,175 practising solicitors and 3,071 practising barristers at the end of 2024, according to the latest LSRA report on the a

Banks alleging that solicitors had failed to comply with undertakings were largely responsible for a 14 per cent increase in complaints to the Legal Services Regulatory Authority (LSRA) last year. The regulator's latest annual report reveals that it received 1,476 complaints in 2024, the fifth full

The chief executive officer of the Legal Services Regulatory Authority (LSRA) is set to leave to take up a new role with Fiosrú. Dr Brian Doherty has been nominated for appointment as deputy police ombudsman in Fiosrú, which was formally established in April as part of Garda oversight

The Legal Services Regulatory Authority (LSRA) has reportedly taken action after a staff member allegedly sent sexually-charged text messages to a woman who used its services. The Irish Independent today published a number of the text messages the woman said she had received from an LSRA employee se

Significant progress has been made over the past six months to address economic and other barriers facing many aspiring and early career solicitors and barristers, the Legal Services Regulatory Authority (LSRA) has said. The regulator today published a six-month update on the 32 recommendations to w

Former Legal Services Regulatory Authority (LSRA) chairperson Dr Don Thornhill has been appointed to chair its new education and training committee. The LSRA has appointed seven members to the new committee, which this month began its work towards implementing structural reforms to the system of edu

The Legal Services Regulatory Authority is seeking the views of stakeholders to assist in the development of its forthcoming Strategic Plan 2025-2028. Stakeholders are invited to share their views and insights via a short online anonymous survey which is open until 1 May.

An American lawyer has said he lost more than €750,000 in a so-called "romance scam" involving a fake Irish law firm. The lawyer, who has not been named, told the Irish Independent that the fraud involved someone posing as a solicitor from "Rowan and Walsh Law", a fake law firm that purported t