Alasdair Douglas will step down as chair of the City of London Law Society (CLLS) later this year as the legal sector moves closer to substantive reform of its representative bodies, with the government exploring making legal service regulators independent from their representative bodies.
Douglas (pictured) is to leave the CLLS after five years in charge, during which time the UK government has dramatically increased court fees, threatened the City with a law firm tax and created a turf war between legal regulators and representative bodies with plans to make the Solicitors Regulatory Authority (SRA) independent from the Law Society.
