In brief: Law Society comes to rescue of ailing firms

A package of measures to help ailing firms is being put together by the Law Society. Details of the scheme are still being thrashed out but Geoffrey Sandercock, chair of the Law Society's practice development committee, told last week's meeting of the society's council that firms would be able to receive advice on everything, from how much to spend on IT to partner to staff ratios. Sandercock said the society was examining the possibility of accrediting commercial advisers.