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‘To Tweet or Not to Tweet’ – Defamation developments
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.
When trains, planes and automobiles disrupt business
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 enhances the Lexis+ Legal News Hub
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.
April 2022 data breach roundup
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.
Climate Change: 7.65 million homes could be exposed to subsidence risk by the 2080s
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.
Search Acumen comments on HMRC’s property transactions data for May 2022
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
Choose your backup provider wisely
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.
Legal Futures summer reading offer – 30% off The Great Post Office Scandal
Most Legal Futures readers will be well aware of the controversies whipped up among the legal profession by the scandal at the Post Office. Should the lawyers have blown the whistle? Were prosecutions made without sufficient disclosure to those charged? Where should an in-house lawyer’s allegiances lie? All these have been raised time and again on these pages over the past two or three years.
Walker Foster – ‘Minerva is the perfect fit’
Walker Foster Solicitors, a law firm serving market towns and rural areas across the North of England for generations, is truly seeing the value in their investment of intelligent client onboarding technology developed by LFS.
Free webinar: Using Clio to manage legal aid matters and billing
With increased paperwork, expansive documentation, and more administrative overhead—the burden is high. Clio’s legal aid solution for law firms can give you hours—even days—back in your month.
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Regulate sole practices on evidence, not turnover
For a sole practice, the SRA’s plan that I cannot hold a compliance role if my firm has more than £600,000 of turnover is not a measure of risk. It is a ceiling on growth.
Is Google becoming pay-to-play for law firms?
For years, law firms have been told that SEO is the long-term alternative to paying for every click. That principle hasn’t disappeared but search results have changed significantly.
Material information and the case for intelligent client onboarding
Upfront information means work traditionally undertaken after an offer is accepted will need to happen earlier. And that fundamentally changes the role of client onboarding.
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