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Did you know there is an easy way to check if the heir hunting firm that contacts you to say that you might be in line for an inheritance is legitimate?

Planning may be top of everyone’s minds right now, but the data underpinning it is in desperate need of an overhaul, according to the panel of the latest tm:tv session “Understanding the value of planning data”:

Nuix partner Ligl helps its customers manage their litigation process using a cloud-based orchestration platform that eliminates the complexity of eDiscovery and legal hold processes.

A recent government survey has found that despite phishing attacks remaining the top threat to cybersecurity, most businesses remain ill prepared to tackle the risk.

QS Davisons have consolidated their legal practice management software into a single solution provided by SOS Legal. to provide Case, Practice and Document management as they seek better connections for their future.

From constant e-mails and phone calls to colleagues asking questions and requesting spontaneous ‘quick catch ups’, it sometimes seems like the single most prominent part of work is interruption. Add a pandemic into the mix and new interruptions brought about by remote working – such as Zoom meetings, deliveries and dogs barking – and it can quickly feel like you’re fighting a losing battle.

The current Stamp Duty Land Tax (SDLT) holiday has helped deliver a property market stimulus that has far outweighed the immediate response to the 2007/08 financial crisis, according to new analysis by Search Acumen, the property data and insight provider.

Every day The National Will Register locates Wills that were thought not to exist. In 2020, 20% of Certainty Will Searches resulted in a Will being located where the estate was presumed intestate or a later Will being discovered that would supersede the Will being used to distribute the estate.

Organisations are faced with exorbitant costs collecting, processing, analysing, and reviewing data triggered by regulatory and legal matters. Rising data volumes and frequency of litigation and regulatory oversight have forced these organisations to respond by hiring more people, which isn’t a winning long-term strategy.

Inheritance lending specialist Tower Street Finance has launched a dispute funding product with a £30m funding line for its panel of inheritance dispute lawyers.