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Video conferencing calls – love or loath them, what are the hidden benefits for solicitors?
Alongside the rising fear of the pandemic, the year 2020 has seen a meteoric rise of the video conference meeting – not only as a business obligation but also as a social necessity. Much has been written about the downsides, but hold up – are there any opportunities or hidden advantages for law firms and most importantly, clients?
Guide to Starting Your Own Law Firm: Top 10 compliance mistakes
Many budding lawyers will tell you that starting your own law firm is not for the faint-hearted. Here are 10 compliance mistakes we most commonly see new start-ups make and how you can avoid making them.
Life in the Law
Take part in LawCare’s ground-breaking research study Life in the Law – a study that aims to find out how legal practice and workplace culture affect wellbeing.
Most personal injury law firms yet to decide on post-whiplash reform strategy
Just 18% of claimant personal injury solicitors say their firm has settled on a strategy to deal with next April’s whiplash reforms, a survey by First4Lawyers, the UK’s largest independent legal marketing collective, has found.
Innovative and award-winning firm Cuatrecasas switches to DocsCorp
Cuatrecasas replaced several applications with DocsCorp solutions to support a commitment to using advanced technology and delivering the best possible results for its clients.
Dudley: Controversial New Build Proposals on Landfill Site
Planning proposals for a new build development on a former landfill site have reappeared in Dudley raising local residents’ fears that the building work could release historic toxic material and landfill gases affecting homes that surround the site.
Independent Practice Rights Now
In the past few weeks, we’ve had lots of members contacting us, either because of furlough or lacking the usual routine distractions, to talk about their next steps and what could be possible for the next stage of their career.
Guide to Starting Your Own Law Firm: Steps 1-3
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.
LawtechUK selects five pioneers to participate in R&D sandbox initiative
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.
Protect yourself, your firm and client by conducting a Certainty Will Search
Conducting a Certainty Will Search ensures that you have done everything you could to locate the last valid Will of the deceased.
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The cost of systemic failure and childbirth injuries
Recent reports show that the NHS has paid almost £3.5bn in medical claims around childbirth injuries over the past six years.
Mazur: when regulators make simple things complicated
What the last six months have shown is that supervision cannot be treated as a background compliance obligation quietly managed somewhere in a firm’s operational processes.
How unstoppable AI is reshaping UK legal practice
At a time when most technology innovation still flows from the US and China, UK lawtech is attracting growing international attention and capital.
