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Money laundering is very much in the legal news at the moment, especially as the Solicitors Regulation Authority is continuing with its thematic reviews looking at AML compliance within law firms; its most recent review looked into 74 firms and found some major failings, including inadequate training, no firm-wide risk assessments in place, and issues around source of funds checks. 

Is your client planning to buy one? Do you know what the implications are for insurability or what really happens if their cliff-top garden collapses onto the promenade below? This and more was discussed in a tm:tv session on Coastal Hazards, as part of the Climate Change and the Property Market series.

LexisNexis, a leading global provider of legal intelligence and analytics, has today launched Lexis Create, a powerful new platform that makes legal drafting easier. Lexis Create puts the muscle of LexisNexis at lawyers’ fingertips within Microsoft Office products.

When a loved one passes away, it is not uncommon for clients to find themselves in a position where they are either unsure as to whether the deceased had written a Will or if they had, where it is stored. Although a copy of the Will is often provided to a client, the passage of time, house moves and the misplacement of documents can lead to these copies being lost.

The Access Group, one of the UK’s leading software providers has officially launched its new legal software division, Access Legal, promising to help the UK’s most ambitious law firms achieve their potential through a powerful suite of technology.

Leave? Remain? These discussions seem like ages ago don’t they? Well, Brexit is now a reality. Many of our clients in the legal sector are asking what this means for UK VAT-registered businesses selling services to overseas customers.

Registering your clients’ Wills on The National Will Register protects the testator, executors and beneficiaries by ensuring that a Will can be located upon death.

During our Access All Areas virtual conference, experts Chris Swailes, Louise Abbott and Julian Purser delivered a session on the growing importance of cloud hosting technology for the legal sector, how it can be implemented and how we’re already helping firms with state of the art cloud hosting solutions.

When undertaking any litigation support case, it is essential to firstly ascertain whether the other party has assets worth pursuing and whether any enforcement action is likely to succeed.

With added focus on ethical behaviour in our industry, we have decided to adopt more responsible business practices and align this with a rebrand from Medreport to e-medicals U.K Limited.