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Terrafirma introduce first coastal hazards risk assessment in conveyancing
From the 14th September 2020, the Terrafirma Ground Report will include the first comprehensive, property-specific assessment of risk from coastal hazards, supported by expert interpretation.
SearchFlow publishes free guide on ‘AI and the Property Industry’
SearchFlow has published a new guide on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the Property Industry, which is designed to provide a useful introduction to property lawyers and conveyancers, and explore how it can be used by law firms to their best advantage.
Experienced buyers of ATE
Sometimes we forget that the After the Event (ATE) insurance market is only two decades old. The ‘pause’ in our businesses over the last five months has given us all a chance to reflect on what’s happened over this time and anticipate what’s to come.
What’s next for online training?
According to Business Wire’s report at the end of 2019, the global corporate e-learning market was worth $14.23 billion in 2017 and will grow by 15% per year, reaching $49.87 billion in 2026
Understanding Mental Capacity and Protecting Vulnerable Clients
The role of a Court of Protection firm is to support vulnerable people; particularly those with a mental incapacity, their families and their advisers.
Due diligence leads to correct beneficiaries inheriting from an estate
When Estate Research were approached by a solicitor firm who believed that the deceased had died intestate and needed their help in locating the beneficiaries of an estate, Dominic Hendry, Head of Private Client at Estate Research recommended that a Certainty Will Search should be conducted first to confirm that there was no Will that the Deceased had written
The podcast for legal industry insights: Topical Talks with Title Research
Topical Talks with Title Research is a podcast about estate administration, probate and other areas of interest in the wills and probate sector
Working together to put data at heart of the UK planning system
By Andrew Lloyd, Managing Director of Legal Futures‘ Associate Search Acumen The recent months may have been filled with uncertainty, but now it is time to act decisively on some of the clear learnings that have emerged. While Covid-19 exposed… Read More
Understanding the opportunity of lead generation post-lockdown
It would be easy to think that as lockdown is being phased out, the legal market is likely to bounce back to what it was. But along with many other industries, the market has changed course and nothing is the same. Recession, job uncertainty and concern around a second wave means consumers aren’t acting as they used to.
Time-poor legal firms too busy for new business
Legal professionals are too busy to win new business, despite the average value of a case being £4,000, according to a new research report.
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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.
