The City of London Law Society (CLLS) has met with government top brass this week to help thrash out the next stage in the legal services reform blueprint, after the professional bodies issued a guarded response to the closelywatched plans.

A high-level CLLS working party met with officials from the Department for Constitutional Affairs (DCA) on Tuesday (31 January) to discuss the body’s formal response to the Government’s White Paper on Sir David Clementi’s package for legal reform, which was published in November last year.