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Getting your budget right

4 March 2019

Preparing a Precedent H costs budget is a crucial step for any litigant who is looking to recover their inter-partes costs in a Multi-Track claim. Getting the budget right the first time is essential, as any application to correct mistakes or omissions is extremely unlikely, and will not amount to “good reasons” to depart from the approved budget.


Solicitors, Will writing professionals and their clients: easy prey and rich pickings

1 March 2019

A recent webinar hosted by the National Will Register addressed the risks Solicitors and Will writing professionals exposed themselves to when communicating via email with clients.


Facing the toxic tide

28 February 2019

The UK has more than 21,000 historic landfills scattered across the country. 2,946 of these, according to analysis by the British Geological Survey (BGS), are located on flood plains.


ARAG acquires DAS’ operations in the Republic of Ireland and continues to pursue its international expansion course

28 February 2019

The ARAG Group continues to move ahead with the internationalisation of its legal insurance business and is now about to launch operations in the Republic of Ireland. To that end, the family-owned enterprise based in Düsseldorf has agreed to acquire the Irish business operations of DAS Legal Expenses Insurance Company Limited in the Republic of Ireland which is part of the ERGO Group.


Search Acumen comments on HMRC’s Monthly Property Transactions

26 February 2019

Paralysis continues to grip the property market, with activity remaining flat. First-time buyers are accounting for a significant chunk of the limited market activity, while those few who need to move, despite wider uncertainty, are also helping to keeping the market moving, albeit at a glacial rate.


Seal Software completes SOC 2 Type II Attestation

26 February 2019

Seal Software announced that it has successfully completed System and Organization Controls (SOC) 2 Type II Audit examination for the company’s artificial intelligence (AI)-driven contract discovery, data extraction, and analytics platform.


Dealing with overseas assets: Interesting case studies

26 February 2019

Selling and transferring shareholdings in the United States and Canada can often be complex, as Title Research’s latest case studies highlight.


‘Big Four’ Danish firm Bech-Bruun chooses contentCrawler from DocsCorp to strengthen its GDPR compliance strategy

26 February 2019

DocsCorp, a leading provider of enterprise productivity solutions, today announced that Bech-Bruun, one of Denmark’s “Big Four” firms, has made contentCrawler, an OCR processing solution, a key component of its GDPR compliance strategy.


Global GDPR Terminology: Lost in Translation

25 February 2019

When it comes to comprehending the intricacies of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), legal information management professionals on either side of the pond may occasionally find themselves further confused by the difference in meaning between terms used in Europe versus the United States.


Cyber Security During Mergers And Acquisitions (M & A)

25 February 2019

On face value, one may question what company mergers, acquisitions, or takeovers have to do with cyber security. But for law firms charged with overseeing the safe completion of such transactions, cyber security should be a core consideration, for two key reasons.

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