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Crispin Passmore

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As seen in: The Guardian, Educational Studies, The Times, Law.com, Law360, Legal Cheek, The Law Society Gazette, Legal Futures
Covers:  Legal market, legal education, legal regulation, UK, US and beyond. Use of NDAs, diversity in legal market, consumer and public experience of legal services.
Doesn't Cover: Beyond legal market issues
legal market geek. consultant to start ups, investors, law firms & global businesses. nothing I say here is my real view, nor anyone else’s probably

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An internationally recognised commentator on the legal market, Crispin Passmore blogs via his website www.passmoreconsulting.co.uk

Crispin works with global law firms, enterprise legal businesses, innovative firms in the UK and start ups. He also advises regulators in jurisdictions as far a part as the USA and Kazakhstan.

Hie blogs cover issues ranging from regulatory reform, legal aid, the shape and direction of the legal market and more. He speaks on major platforms around the world.

Crispin Passmore’s Journalist Portfolio

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Law firms snub reform at their peril

Law firms snub reform at their peril

Walking around the City of London you can stumble across halls that were once home to powerful guilds. Their …

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A STAR is born

A STAR is born

SRA new Standards and Regulations take effect 25 November. Its a big day. Lots of change means a more flexibl…

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Your ethics and culture in the STARs

Your ethics and culture in the STARs

The SRA's new Standards & Regulations take effect 25 November 2019. There is a renewed focus on ethics and th…

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Ethics and what's expected of you | Legal Services Regulation Blog | Kingsley Napley

Ethics and what's expected of you | Legal Services Regulation Blog | Kingsley Napley

It's not the SRA that protects the public from rogue solicitors and law firms. It is the ethical choices unde…

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Is the US at a tipping point?

Is the US at a tipping point?

Another US State (Illinois) has joined California, Arizona and Utah in proposing reforms for the re-regulatio…

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Law: Everything you need to know about the SQE from the man behind the whole thing; Crispin Passm...

Law: Everything you need to know about the SQE from the man behind the whole thing; Crispin Passm...

The entire process of qualifying as a solicitor is changing in 2021 when the Solicitors Qualifying Exam (SQE)…

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Articles

America’s Private Equity Legal Experiment is Coming for London Law Firms—And Their Clients

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By Crispin Passmore
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Crispin Passmore; Courtesy Photo Two powerful forces reshaping American law firms—external capital and an intensifying war for talent—are crossing the pond, with profound implications for the U.K.’s legal establishment, and more importantly their clients. The first force is the quiet but accelerating entry of private equity into U.S. law.
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Three Salient Steps to Attract Private Equity Investors

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By Crispin Passmore
| Law.com
Who Got The Work J. Brugh Lower of Gibbons has entered an appearance for industrial equipment supplier Devco Corporation in a pending trademark infringement lawsuit. The suit, accusing the defendant of selling knock-off Graco products, was filed Dec. 18 in New Jersey District Court by Rivkin Radler on behalf of Graco Inc. and Graco Minnesota. The case, assigned to U.S. District Judge Zahid N. Quraishi, is 3:24-cv-11294, Graco Inc. et al v. Devco Corporation.
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Competition authority review of unregulated legal advice

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By Crispin Passmore, Tom Gordon, Jonathan Bourne
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Lawyers: don't hold your breath waiting for more regulation Many solicitors will rejoice as the competition watchdog begins an investigation into unregulated will-writers, online divorce and prepaid probate services. They will relish the prospect of the government reserving those activities to regulated lawyers and driving unregulated competition out of the market. But that is not going to happen. The scope of the Competition and Markets Authority investigation is limited.
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What's your favorite social network?

Twitter. Instant. Irreverent. Irreversible. Informed. Irrelevant.

Why did you become a journalist?

I have stuff to say. People should listen to my version of the truth.

What story are you most proud of writing or working on?

The use and mis-use of non-disclosure agreements by lawyers and powerful clients. Outrage.

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