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“Do solicitors have a legal duty of care to advise their clients on climate-related risks?”  This is the question that Stephen Tromans QC, one of the pre-eminent environmental law barristers in the world, will pose at The Conveyancing Climate Change Conference on 14th June in the Law Society Common Room. 

This blog explores how law firms can take business intelligence to the next level and why it’s important to do so. It recognises the age-old principle that the legal profession has been built upon: ‘making data pay’.

Within a few hours of starting my free trial, Casedo became an integral part of my workflows, helping me map out how documents intersect, create links between files and annotate with bookmarks, comments, and a pleasant range of highlighter colors.

Liverpool and London-based business lawyers and advisers, O’Connors Legal Services Limited (which trades as O’Connors), has promoted four members of its legal team as it continues to build for the future.

From November 2022, all register applications to HM Land registry will need to be made digitally, marking a step change in the current process.

Covid has had a major impact on legal services. It has seen increased digitalisation across the profession and instilled the need for law firms to be more productive. In just two years there has been twenty years’ worth of modernisation.

It’s been six months since the most recent update, which included more colour and better page control for those using Casedo for both Document Analysis and E-Bundling. The new version of Casedo will include a more granular export option and additional workflow features.

If you are a solicitor requiring assistance of an interpreter, we understand you may have some questions. If you and your clients do not speak the same language, you will need an interpreter to communicate between each other as swiftly and accurately as possible. However, there are different ways of interpreting. In this article, we provide a guide to working with interpreters, including types of interpreting and our top tips for working with interpreters.

In an article on News on the Block, Bishop & Sewell LLP says the growth in property prices may have made it more attractive for claimants to contest probate as there is so much more money at stake.

Our recent webinar looked at a number of important topics related to the involvement of law firms and solicitors in referral arrangements with external third parties. In this article we cover the rules under which law firms have to operate, common issues found in referral arrangements and agreements, and how firms can avoid problems going forward.