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The leading mobile app provider in the legal industry, Perfect Portal has launched a new feature for consumers to make payments via a firm’s mobile app. The unforeseen circumstances of the past year have comprehensively impacted the way industries model their business. It isn’t a matter of rolling with the punches, but in fact working smarter: those that succeed during adverse conditions acclimatise to best fit the needs of their clients.

PracticeEvolve, SOS and Linetime are offering an insightful fraud webinar, investigating the types of fraud and what firms can do to minimise the threat.

If you haven’t heard of us, we’re an inheritance lending specialist that offers innovative, no risk, accessible financial products for beneficiaries and executors of estates. We currently have two unique products that were designed after extensive customer research, and in the last ten months we’ve worked with many solicitors to help them solve their customers’ inheritance problems.

Keller Lenkner UK has filed claims in both the Employment Tribunal and the High Court on behalf of approximately 8,000 Uber drivers to enforce worker rights following the Supreme Court decision in Uber v Aslam.

The past 12 months have seen massive changes in ways of working for all of us, not least in the conveyancing market. The Solicitors Regulation Authority chair Anna Bradley, speaking at the SRA compliance conference in November 2020 commented on this: ‘People think of the legal sector as stuffy and old-fashioned and slow when actually, the sector and all the attendant bodies like ourselves have responded fast and shown themselves to be flexible – we should all be proud of that. ‘I think we need to stay that way.

Following the fifth AML (anti-money laundering) directive last year, the legal sector’s definitive guide on the subject has undergone a radical overhaul. Led by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA), the Legal Sector Affinity Group, a niche practice that offers specialist advice for law firms on risk, has carried out an extensive revision to the guidance.

Protect your client’s property purchases with the official drainage and water enquiry. When undertaking searches for a prospective property purchase it never pays to cut corners. Which is why the CON29DW Drainage and Water Enquiry is considered such an essential component of the conveyancing process.

The time is right for a vital health check on our rights, our justice system and ultimately on the rule of law, the Bar Council, the Chartered Institute of Legal Executives (CILEX) and the Law Society of England and Wales said, as they mark the launch of Justice Week (1 to 5 March) with the United Kingdom still locked-down in the Covid-19 pandemic.

We’re well into the swing of 2021 and the number of data breaches continues to mount, all of which have significant consequences for the members of the public who have been affected, and the data breach industry as a whole.

Advanced have today announced that Edinburgh law firm, Balfour+Manson have selected P4W for their practice and case management solution for 120 users at their firm. Established in 1888, Balfour + Manson deliver legal services in the areas of dispute resolution, private client and commercial law. They have offices in Edinburgh and Aberdeen and describe themselves as combining the best of traditional values with a modern, progressive approach.