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Complex estate administration cases, solved by specialists
Title Research can offer you fast, fixed fee access to genealogical research and asset repatriation services, making us the right choice to help you progress your cases quickly and with confidence.
Eclipse’s new Proclaim MTD toolset officially recognised by HMRC as Making Tax Digital compliant
Law Society endorsed legal software provider, Eclipse Legal Systems, has announced new functionality in its Proclaim Practice Management solution to enable law firms to remain compliant with HMRC Making Tax Digital requirements.
New tech white paper – How law firms can ensure they keep pace with technological advances
SpeechWrite has released a white paper for the legal profession entitled Dictating the Pace of Change. Containing a foreword by James Turner, President of the Birmingham Law Society and insights from Gateley plc and Aaron & Partners, the paper outlines the extent to which the UK legal market is starting to keep pace with technological advances, and how law firms can take advantage of these in order to optimise their practice and remain competitive.
National law firm move to the cloud
National Law Firm Davies and Partners Solicitors has carried out a major upgrade of its IT infrastructure with DPS Software. The project has streamlined its systems onto a digital platform and future proofed its processes to establish a solid foundation to meet its ambitious growth plans.
Conveyancing defies Brexit uncertainty to hit post-EU referendum high in Q4 2018
Conveyancers in England and Wales dealt with more cases on average in the last three months of 2018 than in any other quarter since before the EU referendum of June 2016, according to the Q4 2018 edition of the Conveyancing Market Tracker from Search Acumen, the property data insight and technology provider.
Top-tier Scottish firm Burness Paull chooses cleanDocs from DocsCorp for metadata leak protection
The premier firm relies on cleanDocs to prevent sensitive information in email attachments being accidentally leaked to the public.
SearchFlow supports Local Land Charges Awards for Excellence 2019
SearchFlow – the UK’s leading conveyancing search solutions provider – is supporting the 2019 Local Land Charges Awards for Excellence, sponsoring the Best Customer Experience Award category.
Getting your budget right
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
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
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.
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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.
Modern vehicles: new injury profiles and new legal challenges
As the number of electric vehicles on UK roads continues to grow year-on-year, it is important to address the risks that come with their increased adoption.
