Regulatory Law Advice and Professional Discipline
CM Murray LLP has been ranked as a ‘Firm to Watch’ by Legal 500 UK 2024 for professional discipline.
We advise both organisations and individuals who are the subject of regulatory investigations, with a particular emphasis on SRA investigations into solicitors, legal professionals and law firms.
We advise on issues which commonly arise in such investigations, including the application of legal professional privilege, the obligation to co-operate with the regulator and respond to requests to attend interviews and/or produce documents, and in the negotiation of regulatory settlement agreements.
We also have experience in advising individuals and law firms who are either subject to or conducting internal investigations into alleged misconduct, as to whether and when an obligation to self-report the matter to the SRA has arisen under the relevant Codes of Conduct.
We have had a number of instructions recently arising from sexual misconduct allegations, and have a particular specialism in this area, having hosted a webinar on the sexual misconduct guidance in October and written extensively about the guidance in the legal and national press. We provide partner behavioural training to law firms on both the sexual misconduct guidance and the workplace environment guidance.
We appreciate that regulatory investigations can be highly stressful, time-consuming and intrusive for both firms and individuals, and we take a calm, discrete and methodical approach to matters.
Our ability to provide regulatory advice enables us to take a multi-disciplinary approach to investigations that can occur in an employment and regulatory context, and complements the existing service we provide to our senior executive, partnership and LLP clients.
Our regulatory law practice is led by Partner Andrew Pavlovic, who is recognised as a ‘Next Generation Partner’ by Legal 500 UK 2024 for professional discipline. He is described as ‘a calming influence on any case he works on‘… providing ‘clear, thoughtful and commercially astute advice‘.