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Law centres set up for-profit legal advice enterprise
Interesting developments in the South West:
A community initiative by three law centres aims to generate enough revenue from fee-paying clients to fund a solicitor position in each of their sites.
Earlier this month, Avon and Bristol law centre, Wiltshire law centre, and Gloucestershire law centre secured funding from the Legal Education Foundation and the Future Advice Fund to launch a for-profit legal social enterprise.
A community interest company specialising in immigration law, Cabot Law is the result of nearly two years of research by the three law centres as they looked to develop new advice models in the wake of the legal aid cuts.