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Ian Gilroy, Sales Manager at Shieldpay, discusses the challenges solicitors face in starting their own practice and suggests why more firms are using a Third-Party Managed Account to ease the workload.

More law firms are set to consolidate remote and flexible working practices, after a leading acquirer unveiled plans for a new digital workplace to support its existing and future acquisitions. MAPD Group has joined forces with cloud specialist Oosha, part of Access Legal, to give its firms the opportunity to onboard Oosha’s Virtual Desktop solution.

Online marketing for law firms has become a hot topic—and a highly competitive space—over the past decade. That’s because, more than ever before, people are turning to the internet to seek legal help and find a lawyer.

Leading legal software provider Osprey Approach, and InfoTrack, award-winning providers of digital conveyancing solutions, are delighted to invite conveyancing practices to attend a joint webinar, to help them prepare for the digitisation of Land Registry’s AP1 forms.

iManage Knowledge Unlocked serves as foundation of BCLP Discover, an innovative system that quickly and easily puts valuable knowledge at its lawyers’ fingertips.

Poor air quality is arguably the most significant environmental risk to the health of our nation, with some 40,000 deaths per annum attributable to pollution from motor vehicles and industry. This has been brought into sharp focus during the pandemic where respiratory vulnerability has been a key driver of fatalities.

A new survey of the employees of the UK’s small businesses, has found that 25% feel more stressed and anxious than prior to the pandemic, 18% feel isolated, 18% are not sleeping well and 16% feel more depressed.  More people (20%) feel worried about their mental health than their physical health (16%). 

CILEx Regulation has, today, launched its first ever Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) strategy, championing fair access for all in the legal services market and setting out a series of clear measurable commitments for 2022-24. 

Before Casedo, I worked in London for a property management company as Legal Counsel, and I was largely paperless there. When I moved into practice, I immediately started looking for software that would help me become paperless in practice.

The growing number of frauds, tax evasion, investment scams, and money laundering cases across the country has once again turned the spotlight on the importance of complying with anti-money laundering (AML) policies. Nonetheless, financial institutions are not the only ones subjected to anti-money laundering regulations. Law firms are also required to monitor and investigate the source of funds they accept from their clients in legal transactions.