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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.

The month of April saw various data breaches occur across a number of industries in the UK. Many of which occurred due to hackers accessing systems, but also via human error.

Data analysis from Dye & Durham has identified that more than 7.65 million properties in Great Britain could be exposed to medium or high risk of soil subsidence by the 2080s – an increase of over 1.89 million individual property addresses – as a result of climate change.

The latest HMRC property transaction data covering May 2022 shows a 1.6% jump in transactions from the month previous. Transactions are down 2% on May 2021

We were recently contacted by an IT Support Managed Service Provider (MSP) business who had lost many of their end user backup accounts when their previous well known USA based cloud backup provider carried out an update.