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Issues facing small family trust
Join us on Thursday 28th November at 12.00pm when we will be joined by Professor Lesley King who is presenting this month’s Certainty Expert Webinar, titled ‘Issues Facing Small Family Trusts’.
Year-to-date conveyancing caseload down by 100,000
The conveyancing industry has been forced to react as the market slowdown is aggravated by Brexit uncertainties, according to the Q3 2019 edition of the Conveyancing Market Tracker from Search Acumen, the property data insight and technology provider.
poweredbypie expands free CPD webinar programme
Search and software provider poweredbypie, has announced the expansion of its free CPD webinar programme with the addition of two new sessions.
Cyber Security – what steps you should take
Cyber Essentials is a Government backed accreditation scheme, that protects your organisation, whatever its size against a range of the most common cyber attacks.
Tech is growing the legal field, not shrinking it
Change is always hard. Lawyers have seen the legal field transform with the arrival of machine learning, AI and case management software and there has been concern among lawyers about the future of their careers.
Five ways to demonstrate that you are complying
One of the key changes in the new SRA Standards & Regulations will require you and your firm to evidence how you are meeting your compliance obligations.
River Don Floods: The cause and effect of knee jerk decisions
Another slow moving frontal system dumped a month’s worth of rain in a day on the hills above Sheffield this month. A headline we are used to seeing across the UK, but the response of the River Don and the subsequent downstream flooding tells the bigger story of how and why it happened.
Search Acumen comments on MHCLG Housing Supply Statistics
The net increase in housing stock could be seen as a proxy barometer for the nation’s economic outlook. You don’t have to be a meteorologist to know we aren’t in the sunlit uplands, but rays of sunshine are starting to break through.
Womble Bond Dickinson enhances knowledge management with iManage RAVN
Global law firm leverages AI-powered search to unlock knowledge and relationships across its 1,000 lawyers and 65 million documents to help streamline financial operations.
Ashtons in top slot at 30th anniversary awards
The annual awards recognise innovation and strategic success achieved by LawNet’s SME law firm members, as well as highlighting individuals and teams who are delivering outstanding business results. This year, more than 270 delegates joined the event, from across the 70 member firms, in the network’s 30th anniversary year.
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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.
