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Every day The National Will Register locates Wills made many years before that have been lost or forgotten about due to the passage of time. Clients move home and do not always inform the professional who wrote their Will or update it, even when life circumstances change such as having children or a death in the family.

Flex Legal is delighted to announce that Richard Punt has joined their Advisory Board. Richard has a wealth of experience in strategy, innovation and the digital transformation of the legal sector.

The findings of the new ‘Thriving in a Pandemic’ report, recently published by tmgroup and mio, have highlighted that the market has not been able to cope with the sheer volume of transactions brought on by the post-lockdown and Stamp Duty holiday surge.

A couple of years back, when the GDPR was about to come into force, there was a great deal of talk about Data Subject Access Requests (DSARs).* While European residents had long held the right to request their data, the fact that it was now free, and that there were potentially significant penalties for non-compliance meant that many organizations expected a tsunami of DSARs.

Last week I read a couple of interesting articles in Insurance Post regarding the proposed fee caps being introduced by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) on Claims Management Companies (CMCs). Insurers are wary of an influx of CMC-related claims following the proposed whiplash reforms, so this comes with little surprise.

Regulatory change has always happened, but currently there are two particular accelerants: Brexit and the pandemic.

Currently the only CILEx-regulated family law firm in the UK, Hollan Family Law is part of a growing community choosing to start up with CILEx Regulation

The price gap between new builds and existing properties in the UK has reached £64,624  according to data from the ONS

As the UK has gone into, come out of and (at the time of writing) remained in a state of lockdown, every business has had to grapple with new challenges. What did we learn during 2020 that can help future proof ourselves and guard against future business interruption?

Leading legal software provider Quill has been recognised as a well-led and well-managed organisation demonstrating ‘outstanding’ levels of employee engagement, despite the current unprecedented circumstances.