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The Solicitors Accounts Rules & Dealing with Tricky Balances - Live At Your Desk - Learn Live

Length
2 hours
Next course start
11 February, 2025 See details
Course delivery
Virtual Classroom
Length
2 hours
Next course start
11 February, 2025 See details
Course delivery
Virtual Classroom

Course description

The SRA expects law firms to actively deal with and resolve residual balances in a timely manner.


This virtual classroom session will provide you with guidance on how to return these balances without spending any unnecessary time or resources.


Expert speaker Luke Dickinson will go through what the SRA expects firms to do with older and more difficult balances and will use real life examples to illustrate how to resolve them. Luke will also consider recent Law Society guidance and provide you with top tips on how to deal with some tricky scenarios you may encounter.

Upcoming start dates

1 start date available

11 February, 2025

  • Virtual Classroom
  • Online
  • English

Outcome / Qualification etc.

Following all MBL courses, a certificate of attendance will be provided for those who are required to evidence their CPD activity to a professional body.

Training Course Content

Introduction

Residual balances are an administrative headache and can really eat into your productivity.

The SRA expect law firms to actively deal with and resolve them in a timely manner.

This virtual classroom session will provide you with guidance on how to return these balances without spending any unnecessary time or resources.

Expert speaker Luke Dickinson will go through what the SRA expects firms to do with older and more difficult balances and will use real life examples to illustrate how to resolve them.

This session will consider recent Law Society guidance and provide you with top tips on how to deal with some tricky scenarios you may encounter.

What You Will Learn

This live and interactive session will cover the following:

  • How to deal with ambiguous balances
  • The SRA’s expectations for balances with little or no information
  • What to do when you have inherited balances from another practice
  • How you should tailor your residual balance project
  • Tips on how to evaluate your process on residual balances
  • How to identify balances that are acceptable to hold

Expenses

From £144
MBL Seminars Limited
C/o Law Business Research
Holborn Gate, 330 High Holborn
WC1V 7QT London

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