Since the abolition of the Solicitors Indemnity Fund, the October professional indemnity insurance renewal season has always been a challenge, but this year most law firms saw their premiums go up.

If you forced 10 cyber-criminals to sit through an average law firm’s IT committee meeting, they’d be turning themselves in to the National Crime Agency before it reached AOB.

If you already comply with the current accounts rules, it’s entirely plausible you don’t need to do anything to comply with the new ones from 25 November. However, we advise against this myopic course of action.

As time moves on, methods of crime and the laundering of its products change. In this blog we will look at five unexpected ways in which law firms and lawyers can fall foul of criminals.

One of the first aspects to consider is how your lawyers will use the technology you acquire, and what may be needed to optimise their user experience.