LEI v CFA

Addressing the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers annual conference, Roger Bolt advised solicitors not to simply send clients onto an insurers’ panel as soon as they discover that the client has legal expenses insurance. There was no reason why a solicitor should not change his terms of a CFA so as to be more beneficial to the client than those offered by the insurer. CFA rules simply require the solicitor to objectively inform the client of the pluses and minuses of using either the LEI or a CFA. He continued: ‘Solicitors should not forget that they may be best for the client, rather than a lawyer in another part of the country who will never meet the client.’