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Monday 23rd September marks the start of National Empty Homes Week. The Empty Homes Week was founded by Action on Empty Homes to highlight Britain’s underused or completely unused housing stock and to encourage action on how it can serve those with housing needs.

When searching for missing beneficiaries in estate administration, it’s important to conduct genealogical research with insurance in mind. If a missing beneficiary can’t be found, it’s likely that you’ll need to protect the estate from future claims by obtaining missing beneficiary indemnity insurance.

Advanced has announced the addition of Digital Dictation, a cloud-based dictation solution for the legal sector, to its growing Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) portfolio. It will help law firms work more efficiently, save costs and maintain high levels of security and risk management.

The SRA Handbook is being replaced by the SRA Standards and Regulations, which will be in force from November 2019. The focus of the reforms is on each legal professional being able to justify their actions in all work that they carry out.

Innovative and growing commercial debt management business, Azzurro Associates, has selected LexisNexis®  Visualfiles™ as the legal workflow and case management platform of choice for its newly formed commercial legal recoveries business, Azzurro Law. Visualfiles will enable the firm to efficiently and flexibly manage the debt recovery process across the life span of portfolios handled by the organisation.

To assist legal practitioners in taking advantage of the continued resilience of the commercial property sector and grow their practice and reputation for excellence in this area, Thames Water Property Searches are proud to present a free interactive and informative legal CPD commercial property-based event. Throughout the day, you will hear essential information and updates by leading industry experts on practical topics affecting the everyday lives of commercial property Conveyancers and Solicitors.

Recently, the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) delved into the cyber threats persistently bombarding the legal sector. The report suggested that throughout 2016/17, £11 million was lost to cyber criminals. Unfortunately, since this point the sophistication of hackers has only increased with their approaches becoming more intrusive and convincing.

During DPSLive earlier this summer amongst all the positive feedback were several requests from DPS Financial Director users for more time to sit down and discuss the latest updates, releases and wish-list items for the software.

The flood risk in the UK is increasing. Find out how landlords and tenants can protect their interests in the face of commercial property flood risk. For detailed property searches, please contact Thames Water Property Searches on 0845 070 9148.

Data breach and cybersecurity specialist Hayes Connor Solicitors was highly commended for its innovative marketing at The Symphony Legal Annual Conference held in Hinckley in September.