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SearchFlow, the UK’s largest provider of legal due diligence data for residential and commercial property transactions, has released a new edition of its PropTech AI Whitepaper series, which focuses on providing lawyers with an insight on Natural Language Processing (NLP) and its implication on legal practice.

Law firms or legal providers that offer legal services are regulated by regulators such as the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) to maintain the public trust and the ethical delivery of legal services. Solicitors often receive and hold their client’s money as part of a legal service e.g. buying a house.

Easements exist in the majority of freehold titles and so they are important to conveyancers and buyers alike.  Easements are certain rights that a person has over another’s land. Rights range from very widespread forms of rights of way, most rights to use service conduits such as telecommunications cables, power supply lines, supply pipes and drains, rights to use communal gardens and rights of light, to more strained and novel forms. All types are subject to general rules and constraints.

Leading public law specialists, Sharpe Pritchard, have selected VirtualSignature, following a comprehensive market review, to support their continuing digital transformation. Sharpe Pritchard will use the SmartSign application as the firm continues to enhance the delivery of services to their predominantly public sector client base.

Having launched in March, The Digital Solicitor podcast promotes and explores the impact of digitalisation on legal services, delivering thought provoking interviews with leading personalities in the law and legal tech professions, straight to your device.

One of the key professional principles, enshrined in Principle 2 of the CILEx Code of Conduct, is the requirement to maintain high standards of professional and personal conduct and justify public trust in you, your profession, and the provision of legal services.

Every law firm, whether large or small, are experiencing the same challenges when it comes to keeping up to date with legislation changes in the UK this year. Brexit and the pandemic are accelerating regulatory change. Covid-19 is driving additional short notice changes impacting everything from tax and how courts work, to repossession deadlines.

Hudgell Solicitors has appointed experienced registered midwife and former NHS incident investigator Theresa Greenwood to further enhance its in-house medical expertise when handling serious clinical negligence claims.

Tollers regularly work with their local council to act as a Deputy for those who have lost capacity and are unable to handle their own affairs. The firm conduct a Certainty Will Search in Court of Protection matters to ensure that they have located the last valid Will of P to establish their past and present wishes and feelings to ensure that they are acting in their best interest.

Nuix engaged Ari Kaplan Advisors to interview 31 regulators in 18 countries during 2020. The Nuix 2021 Global Regulator Report takes the learnings from those interviews and highlights best practices, technology protocols, agency enforcement strategies, and data sharing preferences in a comprehensive and thought-provoking report that Ari Kaplan and Nuix’s Stuart Clarke discuss in this video.