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Brands taking the law into their own hands

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Release Date:
17 August 2011
Author:
Michael Barnett
Source:
Marketing Week

Imagine if hit TV show This Life had been set in a supermarket, rather than around a swanky law office. That might sound strange, but from the end of this year any company will be able to apply to offer legal services.

Until now, only law firms have been able to invest in or share the profits of certain kinds of ’reserved’ legal work. But the activation of the Legal Services Act, which was passed in 2007 and nicknamed ’Tesco law’, will turn the current regulations on their head and open the door for the likes of banks to supermarkets to enter the £12bn consumer law market in England and Wales for the first time...

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