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The biggest fundraising event in the legal calendar is fast approaching and the support from the legal community is evident as there are now nearly 500 teams signed up for the London Legal Walk on Monday 18th October.

The lack of digital connectivity in the property market creates challenges and additional administrative work for conveyancers that hinders efficiencies and productivity. Conveyancers often find themselves using disparate systems and communication channels to rekey data, chase – and be chased – for updates, and check data for consistency to progress a transaction.

Read on for a helpful guide on how legal practices can successfully go paperless – from how to organise law files to best practices to common mistakes law firms should avoid. Going from paper-heavy to paper-light, or even fully paperless, is an achievable goal for law firms, as long as you take the right steps on your journey.

Liverpool and London-based business lawyers and advisers, O’Connors Legal Services Limited, has appointed corporate and commercial specialist Lauren Swanick as a Chartered Legal Executive.

McCann and McCann are a leading Belfast city law firm. Since being founded in 1980, the firm has grown from strength to strength into a multi-partner practice which provides a comprehensive and expert legal service to the community.

CILEx Regulation is delighted to announce that, following a competitive tender earlier this year, it has appointed the University of Law to administer its alternative route to authorising Chartered Legal Executives who would like to apply for additional practice rights.

Leading legal software and outsourced legal services provider, Quill, has been awarded second place in the prestigious Institute of Legal Finance & Management (ILFM) Solicitors’ Software Users Award for 2021.

The Government set out a step-by-step plan in February to ease restrictions in England during the Covid-19 pandemic. Step 4 of this roadmap plan began on 19th July, by highlighting the need to continue being cautious as we managed the ongoing risks of the virus. It was later stated on the Government’s website, updated on 27th August, that everything hadn’t returned to normal and further guidance for offices and businesses would follow in Step 5. Scotland; Wales, and Northern Ireland were expected to create their own strategies on how they dealt with the pandemic.

SearchFlow, one of the UK’s largest providers of legal due diligence data for residential and commercial property transactions, has today announced the launch of a new Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) due diligence report service to support real estate lawyers in accurately assessing ESG risk during M&A and investment deals.

CTS, the legal sector’s provider of cloud and IT services specifically shaped for law, have been chosen by Turcan Connell to provide a cloud platform solution with integrated disaster recovery and managed backup.