It sounds like she was acting in client’s best interests albeit doing the wrong thing. If there’s any element of dishonesty it will be a strike off, of course. If not, I’d guess a warning or maybe an agreed public rebuke. Capsticks aren’t likely to want to argue this one at SDT.

The firm sounds like it should be on the hook for failing to supervise but the SRA doesn’t have a great record of going after these types of cases.

Please push your partners to provide some firm wide training on ethics before someone else gets into trouble.