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This may come as a shock to many lawyers but the amount of threats (as defined by CSOs, IT managers and security specialists) are found within the confines of a firm itself.

May 28th, 2019 will see a new voluntary code come into effect to provide greater protection and a commitment from banks and building societies to reimburse victims of push payment fraud.

When Dr Peters approached his local solicitor with a copy of his wife’s 1982 Will, he was informed that he would need to try and find the original before he could apply for a Grant of Probate.

While residential property transactions remained relatively flat in February 2019, the number of monthly seasonally adjusted transactions has only been bettered once since the EU Referendum in 2016.

New research from Moneypenny has revealed that it has seen a 38% increase in the number of law firms using Live Chat over the past six months. 

Shepherd Harris are a well-known law firm in Enfield Town, trading there since 1954. Their whole ethos is based on providing a great client service.  Duncan Ritchie, company director and servant of 42 years says, “Most of the work we get comes from referrals from previous clients, word of mouth, client’s recommending us to family and friends”.

The appetite that law firms in the UK have to embrace the cloud and leverage technology to improve their firms is best demonstrated by the fact that more than 2000 law firms in the UK and Ireland have now made the switch to LEAP. First launched in January 2015, this is the fastest uptake of new technology in UK legal software history.

The ‘gig economy’ is never far from the news. Here DAS Law Solicitor John Griffiths explains where the term comes from, what it means, and how businesses can help themselves today when it comes to clearly defining the status of their people…

Finders International is to hold the first of its popular Deputyship Development Days for 2019 in Manchester on 3 April.

Only 8% of small to medium sized law firms have failed to implement any cyber security measures last year.In comparison, over a quarter of the UK’s small to medium sized enterprises (SMEs) have no cyber security measures or strategies in place.