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Legal Aid Agency’s Specialist Quality Mark

The Legal Aid Agency (LAA) SQM is a quality assurance standard for legal services providers or organisations that:

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    supply complex legal help

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    offer a full range of legal services, including representation in court (where necessary and permitted) by formally trained professionals

Compliance with the LAA SQM standard or the Law Society’s Lexcel Practice Management standard is a requirement

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