When staff in organisations start using online services independently without following their in-house IT team’s approval process, those online services become ‘shadow IT’.

Despite the property market going through a significant period of development, with a healthy stream of innovation, the process of moving home is mired by reports of slow and difficult transactions.

We are close to four years on from the Solicitors Regulation Authority’s introduction of rules on transparency and it has announced it will be checking all firms’ websites in 2022.

After a seemingly slow start a decade ago, there has been an explosion of investment, awareness and new job opportunities in legal technology.

Tackling financial crime places a considerable burden of risk and compliance on conveyancers. But, while this can be frustrating, the need to combat the issues related to money laundering cannot be overstated