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Elevating legal onboarding: Streamlined, secure and efficient
Client onboarding stands as a pivotal process for enterprise law firms, serving as the bedrock for robust client relationships, streamlined data collection, and adherence to KYC and AML regulations.
Property trends webinar: Exploring key data and themes for 2024
Discover the latest trends driving the residential property market in 2024 with Landmark’s “Property Trends” webinar series.
64% of firms plan to collect and bill more frequently in 2024, BigHand’s latest research confirms
BigHand has released it’s 2024 Annual Law Firm Finance Report with survey results from 800 senior legal finance roles, CEOs and Managing Partners in law firms of 100+ lawyers across the UK and North America.
New year, new data security policy?
Client Advisor, Dave Parry, provides some top tips and solutions on how to stay resilient against cyber attacks in the coming year!
Identifying risks to profit leakage
As profit leakages continually pose risks to their financial health, almost all firms have looked to raise the billable hours targets in 2023, while around half of UK firms had done so by more than 10%.
Clyde & Co selects LexisNexis® as global partner to deliver Lexis® Everyfile
LexisNexis Enterprise Solutions, the specialist software solutions division of LexisNexis UK, has announced a legal technology partnership with world leading law firm, Clyde &Co.
Distinguished Recognition: Presenting an ILFM Honorary Fellowship upon Jatinderpal Loyal
Tim Kidd, Chief Executive of the ILFM, has confirmed Jatinderpal Loyal has been made an Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Legal Finance & Management for his outstanding contribution to the legal profession.
Construction Escrow: The saviour of ‘pay now, argue later’?
Robert Fenwick Elliott is credited with coining the phrase ‘pay now, argue later’ in the context of construction operations as he advised Lord Howie in early 1996 on how the statutory adjudication process (which came to exist in the Construction Act 1996) should work.
International M&A specialist joins O’Connors
Liverpool and London-based business lawyers and advisers, O’Connors, has appointed international M&A specialist, Yousra Gamgoum as an Associate in its legal team to broaden its international support for clients.
Enhanced CQS training courses with digital conveyancing insight to be available for Access Legal customer
Access Legal, one of the only approved providers of CQS training alongside The Law Society, launches new Update courses in line with the new 2023 – 2024 syllabus.
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Mentoring the next generation of litigation leaders
As a female lawyer, from the North, with a state school education, I understand the value of sharing perspectives, experiences and contacts.
The cost of systemic failure and childbirth injuries
Recent reports show that the NHS has paid almost £3.5bn in medical claims around childbirth injuries over the past six years.
Mazur: when regulators make simple things complicated
What the last six months have shown is that supervision cannot be treated as a background compliance obligation quietly managed somewhere in a firm’s operational processes.
