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Starting your own law firm is an appealing and rewarding way to make a living – and a life – but it can seem like a pipe dream. But if you have the will and desire to take the plunge, you’ll be in good company. According to the SRA, one in six of all law firms are sole practitioners and on average, two new firms open every working day.

As part of the LawtechUK project, CILEx Regulation will be working with the other legal services regulators to provide regulatory support to the five lawtech innovators that have been selected to participate in LawtechUK’s Sandbox Pilot.

Conducting a Certainty Will Search ensures that you have done everything you could to locate the last valid Will of the deceased.

Earlier this year, the Legal Services Board published a collection of papers entitled, ‘Perspectives on LawTech and Regulation’, asking some of the key leaders and influencers in the legal services sector to offer their perspectives on the following question

As it’s nearly Christmas, let’s start with a Christmas Cracker joke Q: What did the unscrupulous solicitor get for Christmas? A: Suspended by the SRA for not completing Client Due Diligence adequately while working from home. I know, don’t give up the day job, but I’m sure by now you get the point of this article.

With the global pace of technological transformation at an all-time high, traditional business models have to evolve rapidly to stay relevant or find themselves staring down the barrel of failure. To what extent do you agree with this notion that firms will be completely left behind after the Covid-19 crisis if they fail to invest in technology?

Data breaches happen all the time, affecting organisations in all sectors and of all sizes, including private companies, educational establishments, charities and government bodies.

In September 2020, the judgment in PLK and Others was published and the profession welcomed the notion that hourly rates applied to Court of Protection work were out of date and it was deemed reasonable for uplifts of up to 20% to be applied to the guideline hourly rates (GHR).

Registering your clients’ Wills on The National Will Register ensures that they can be easily located once the testator has passed away, protecting the estate from being distributed incorrectly by unknowingly using a revoked Will or as intestate because it was believed a Will did not exist.

Awareness of narcissism and narcissistic behaviour has mushroomed over the past decade. More and more people are being identified as exhibiting a degree of narcissistic behaviour, a rise that may reflect the explosion of social media or simply increased awareness of the problem.