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Half of UK professionals lack confidence in employers’ ability to prevent sexual harassment
Nearly half of UK professionals (49%) say they are not fully confident their employer can prevent workplace sexual harassment, and one in five workers report that their company provides no training on the issue.
Landmark appoints Group Business Development and Relationships Director
Landmark has appointed Nick Dyoss to the newly created role of Group Business Development and Relationships Director.
O’Connors advises the shareholders of Express Solicitors on private equity investment
Express Solicitors has secured private equity investment from Ufenau Capital Partners, which will accelerate growth of the booming personal injury law firm.
Qanooni AI and Nexian partner to help UK law firms adopt AI securely and confidently
Qanooni AI has announced a strategic partnership with Nexian, one of the UK’s leading IT and managed service providers for professional services firms.
BigHand eliminates manual task triaging with new AI email routing for cloud customers
The latest AI-powered Email Routing feature adds even more value to the award-winning BigHand Workflow Management solution and will be available for no additional cost.
A year of remastering: how Landmark raised the bar for environmental due diligence
Landmark Information has launched its remastered residential environmental search reports, a milestone that marked the start of a strategy to enhance how environmental risk information is delivered.
Qanooni AI announces category defining legal AI integration with Actionstep, unifying the work and practice of law
The integration brings Qanooni’s AI-powered draft, review, matter summaries, and legal research into Actionstep’s cloud practice management system so firms can do the work of law in one intelligent, connected workspace.
Tribunal backlog skyrockets as Lords send Employment Rights Bill back to Commons
The backlog of employment tribunal claims waiting to be heard has increased by more than a quarter over one year, according to data released yesterday by His Majesty’s Courts and Tribunal Service (HMCTS).
Clarity and control: The new AML checks from InfoTrack
InfoTrack has introduced a redesigned Anti-Money Laundering (AML) check that gives legal professionals greater clarity, consistency, and control in their client due-diligence processes.
Legal tech is on the rise – don’t miss out
Legal tech is growing fast. But a changing sector presents new challenges for law firms as they look to adopt the smartest possible technology solution – and that’s where all-in-one partners like Checkboard stand out from the crowd.
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The new metrics for success in conveyancing
While technology has made much of the conveyancing process faster, there remains a practical limit to how many matters anyone can manage while still keeping standards intact.
The UK legal market is polarising – and the middle is disappearing
Consolidation and the boutique boom are not contradictory. They are the same market stretching apart at both ends – and it changes what your firm is worth, and to whom.
Conveyancing’s consistency problem is about pressure, not skills
When I qualified, a conveyancer had perhaps 10 or 12 plates to keep spinning. Today’s conveyancers have 20 or 30, and almost none of the room for error I had starting out.
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