A change to the legal regime will allow banks, supermarkets and other businesses to offer lawyer services for the first time from today. The new Legal Services Act comes into force today and will allow non-lawyers to invest in and own legal businesses. In practice, this could mean that people buying a new home could be able to turn to the same firm for services currently provided separately by estate agents and solicitors, while others could be able to turn to supermarket giants for legal advice....Read more here---> High Street names given green light to take on the law firms with cut-price legal services | This is Money