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Ampla Finance, the legal finance provider, has announced the appointment of Tim Porter as its new Commercial Director.

The landscape of the legal services industry is in a state of almost continual change, the most paramount catalyst of which is the march towards an ever-digital marketplace for legal services across the sector.

A note from Quill’s MD Tom Wormald – Our charity committee has really taken its “go big or go home” mantra to the extreme with our annual challenge! I am proud, and somewhat nervous, to announce our charity event in aid of British Heart Foundation (BHF).

Miller is delighted to announce its new and exclusive primary £10m limit PII facility for 11+ Partner law firms; the first in many years. A risk-based approach sets the facility apart from all other schemes in the market and allows firms to undertake a meaningful exercise to identify how their processes compare to best practice. 

Newly Qualified Solicitors (NQs) and burgeoning young talent expect the same level of accessibility to potential employers as the brands they buy from, according to a leading legal recruiter.

Is your law firm obsessed with client reviews?  Trustpilot, Feefo, Google, Facebook, the list goes on. The pressure to score consistently high reviews and the focus on seeking client feedback can be overwhelming/frustrating/annoying (delete as appropriate).

Search Acumen’s analysis indicates over 100,000 property transactions have been completed in local authorities which have adopted HM Land Register’s digital register for local land charges

Shakespeare would probably have enjoyed the verbal jousting on social media and Hamlet’s ponderings about human existence in general could also have worked online. But with Twitter in the news again as Elon Musk considers taking over the company and into private ownership, we ask whether this is all ‘much ado about nothing’ or if libel law needs to restrain the worst excesses of online debate.

Holiday season always presents difficulties for resource planning as solicitors, administrators and front of house staff take annual leave. But against the backdrop of severe delays to most of the country’s domestic and international travel infrastructure, this summer may prove more challenging than normal.

LexisNexis Legal & Professional, a leading global provider of legal information and analytics, today announced the addition of MLex and practice-specific Law360 Authority content to the Lexis+ Legal News Hub and its expansion to Lexis+ users in the UK.