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The challenges posed by the pandemic have caused law firms to reappraise the way they work and how they integrate with their clients. One area of law particularly affected is family law. The pressures on people suddenly confined to spending more time at home together have led to divorce applications and break-ups skyrocketing across the UK.

iManage the company dedicated to Making Knowledge Work™, today announced the native integration of S&P Global Market Intelligence data  into iManage Conflicts Manager and iManage Business Intake Manager, key products within the iManage Security, Risk and Governance portfolio. Available today, the integrations allow customers a faster, more streamlined approach to onboarding new clients, and identifying and addressing risk posed by ethical and business conflicts.

Advanced have today announced that Property Management Legal Services Limited have selected ALB for their practice and case management solution, a system that integrates all aspects of a law firm onto one platform.

DocsCorp, a leading provider of enterprise productivity solutions, today announced that Stuart Kane LLP, a specialized Real Estate, Employment, and Litigation law firm, has chosen compareDocs and cleanDocs for legal document review and security.

As part of a tm:tv series on climate change, in partnership with Terrafirma, the ‘Mining our way to a greener future’ episode brought together an expert panel to discuss how the property industry need to start making changes today, to prepare for the sustainability challenges of tomorrow.

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.