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Budget reaction: “Salami sliced Budget now paves the way for stability”
Andrew Lloyd, Managing Director at Search Acumen (property data insight and technology provider), comments on the Autumn Budget.
Dye & Durham recognised as Highly Commended at the Modern Law Conveyancing Awards
Dye & Durham are delighted to share that our team has been recognised as Highly Commended for Search Provider of the Year at the Modern Law Conveyancing Awards.
Half of UK professionals lack confidence in employers’ ability to prevent sexual harassment
Nearly half of UK professionals (49%) say they are not fully confident their employer can prevent workplace sexual harassment, and one in five workers report that their company provides no training on the issue.
Landmark appoints Group Business Development and Relationships Director
Landmark has appointed Nick Dyoss to the newly created role of Group Business Development and Relationships Director.
O’Connors advises the shareholders of Express Solicitors on private equity investment
Express Solicitors has secured private equity investment from Ufenau Capital Partners, which will accelerate growth of the booming personal injury law firm.
Qanooni AI and Nexian partner to help UK law firms adopt AI securely and confidently
Qanooni AI has announced a strategic partnership with Nexian, one of the UK’s leading IT and managed service providers for professional services firms.
BigHand eliminates manual task triaging with new AI email routing for cloud customers
The latest AI-powered Email Routing feature adds even more value to the award-winning BigHand Workflow Management solution and will be available for no additional cost.
A year of remastering: how Landmark raised the bar for environmental due diligence
Landmark Information has launched its remastered residential environmental search reports, a milestone that marked the start of a strategy to enhance how environmental risk information is delivered.
Qanooni AI announces category defining legal AI integration with Actionstep, unifying the work and practice of law
The integration brings Qanooni’s AI-powered draft, review, matter summaries, and legal research into Actionstep’s cloud practice management system so firms can do the work of law in one intelligent, connected workspace.
Tribunal backlog skyrockets as Lords send Employment Rights Bill back to Commons
The backlog of employment tribunal claims waiting to be heard has increased by more than a quarter over one year, according to data released yesterday by His Majesty’s Courts and Tribunal Service (HMCTS).
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Change in regulator shouldn’t make AML less of a priority
While SRA fines for AML have been climbing, many in the profession aren’t confident they will get any relief from the FCA, a body used to dealing with a highly regulated industry.
There are 17 million wills waiting to be written
The main reason cited by people who do not have a will was a lack of awareness as to how to arrange one. As a professional community, we seem to be failing to get our message across.
The case for a single legal services regulator: why the current system is failing
From catastrophic firm collapses to endemic compliance failures, the evidence is mounting that the current multi-regulator model is fundamentally broken.
