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Building your law firm’s success online
As will have been the case for many of you recently, spending more time at home with school age children than would be the case under normal circumstances (in my case nine-year-old twin girls) is not without its challenges.
Casedo teases its latest features
Casedo will soon release the latest update of its legal analysis platform, version 1.4. The update will offer users an enhanced Table of Contents toolset and more extensive PDF support.
Moneypenny launches Covid-19 screening BOT for law firms
A new online Self-screening Bot has been launched to help law firms manage clients’ safety more easily, before any face-to-face meetings take place.
Black Lives Matter
Comment by James Harper, Executive Sponsor, LexisNexis Rule of Law Foundation & Former General Counsel: Black Lives Matter is important on a number of levels. It brings into stark focus a deep-rooted inequality experienced by a specific community, an inequality that has become so normalised and entrenched in many people’s lives that it ceases to stand out as being wrong.
Deborah Witkiss appears in Leaders Council podcast
The Leaders Council of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is currently in the process of talking to leadership figures from across the nation in an attempt to understand this universal trait and what it means in Britain and Northern Ireland today.
Holly Mieville-Hawkins discusses Inheritance Tax planning with Title Research
In episode six of Topical Talks, Title Research was joined by expert guest, Holly Mieville-Hawkins, Senior Associate at Enable Law. Holly is an expert in the field of Court of Protection work, specialising in making and defending applications.
Free webinar: Understanding environmental risks associated with agricultural transactions
Purchasing land, whether for continued agricultural use, diversification schemes or larger projects such as renewable energy and essential infrastructure can prove complex. Understanding the land’s historic activities alongside any sensitive habitats and other pathways that could affect the land could help to avoid any liability for the land owners
Specific legal guidance for Drone Operator market released
LexisNexis have worked with ARPAS, the UK Drone Association, and Bird & Bird to create what is believed to be the first published template Drone Services Agreement, written specifically to mitigate the legal challenges faced by the drone industry in England and Wales.
Nearly a third of employees are handling more data
A survey conducted by data management business DSA Connect has found that 30% of employees are handling more data and that more than a third (37%) anticipated an increase in both the number and value of data breach fines by 2025.
Find out how you can make working from home easier
You’ve probably had to get used to lots of changes these past few months. The biggest of which for many will have been adapting to working from home.
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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.
