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London Legal Support Trust (LLST), which supports free legal advice agencies in London and the South East, is delighted to announce the date for the biggest fundraising event in the legal calendar, the London Legal Walk. The charity is excited to have the event returning to its usual summer fixture on Tuesday 28 June.

In December, some of the most notable data breaches included Gumtree advertisers’ information being leaked via a simple security vulnerability, an NHS trust exposing the data of Covid vaccine trialists and Sainsbury’s being hit by a cyber-attack against their payroll provider Kronos.

Property litigation is familiar territory for Temple but one area that often features prominently are claims arising out of the valuation of property. These claims are inevitably cyclical – a down-turn in the economy prompts lenders to look to the property against which they may have lent in the past.

Solicitors could be seeing an increase in demand for SME finance based services in 2022 as the Government’s COVID-19 support has eased back and take up of the Recovery Loan Scheme is expected to remain low.

Monthly construction output increased by 3.5% in volume terms in November 2021, which is the largest monthly rise seen in construction output growth since March 2021 

In November, some of the most notable data breaches included data from county schools in Kent being leaked to the dark web, patient records having to be destroyed after being abandoned at a former care home and the high-profile data breach involving the Labour Party.

Data from the latest edition of Landmark Information Group’s Property Trends Report has highlighted that the sustained imbalance of ‘supply versus demand’ continues to be the dominant pressure on activity levels in the England and Wales’ residential property industry.

The Toronto-based ARAG Services Corporation amalgamated with ARAG Legal Solutions Inc., effective January 1st, 2022. The amalgamation was driven by the acquisition of DAS Canadian operations in March 2021 by the German ARAG Group, a global leader in legal expenses insurance (LEI) and currently active in 19 countries.

When Hughes Parry Solicitors underwent a firm reorganisation, Director Tim Wilson took on the responsibility for probate work across the firm. With a background in Divorce and Family work, Tim needed a simple solution to track all his new probate cases and turned to Exizent to help improve the visibility and accuracy of his clients’ cases, as well as the speed taken to solve them.

By Legal Futures Associate Minerva Stephen Rimmer LLP, a firm that offers a full range of commercial and consumer legal services, is leading the way in dealing with the conveyancing boom during the Covid-19 pandemic. The firm’s conveyancing team has seen… Read More