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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.

It has always been a challenge to assemble bundles for inquiries; when I first started nearly 40 years ago there were no rules, and it was pretty much a free-for-all. I am fortunate to have worked with and alongside some exceptionally good solicitors who drilled into me the importance of producing bundles of documents that were comprehensive, paginated and indexed. It is the ideal we should all aspire to, but it is a lot of work, particularly if, like me, you are a sole practitioner.

iManage, the company dedicated to Making Knowledge Work™, today released research that finds just 23 percent of knowledge workers report their organisation is ahead of the curve in digital capabilities to support knowledge work.

There are several ways for experts to calculate a law firm’s valuation. For a start, there are many reasons why your accountant should never undertake the valuation of your solicitors’ practice. What’s wrong with my accountant, you say? Surely your accountant, given their knowledge of your businesses and their accounting skills, should be perfectly suited to valuing a business?

Have you arranged refresher training yet for your staff that may have been on furlough? The government is actively encouraging employers to do so and the Institute is ready and keen to help you provide it.

Dr Tom Quirke, managing director of SearchFlow, the UK’s largest provider of legal due diligence data for residential and commercial property transactions, explains the market implications of the Stamp Duty Land Tax holiday extension to September, announced in the Chancellor of the Exchequer’s Spring Budget