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iManage, the company dedicated to transforming how professionals work, today announced that Kluge Advokatfirma—a full service, independent Norwegian law firm covering all major fields of business law—has selected iManage Work 10 for its document and email management.

In 2017 CILEx Regulation carried out its first diversity survey of its entire regulated community. The excellent number of responses has enabled CRL to better understand diversity and see some possible emerging trends. See the full report here and a key findings infographic below.

Legal Eye are pleased to introduce specialist GDPR consultant Marcus Allen. With his specialisms including the General Data Protection Regulation and ISO27001, Marcus further strengthens Legal Eye’s outsourced compliance offering, with his expertise being a key addition to the team’s growing wealth of knowledge and skills.

iManage, the company dedicated to transforming how professionals work, today announced that 75 percent of the law firms in the European 100 rely on iManage to handle their document and email management needs, enhance their security and transform how their professionals get work done. iManage’s strong showing in the European 100 is further demonstrated with 79 percent of the leading UK law firms relying on iManage for document and email management.

With the growing interest in genealogy, partly due to popular television programmes such as Who Do You Think You Are, Title Research highlights the importance of understanding how personal data for genealogy purposes is protected under the Data Protection Act. In their most recent blog post, the genealogy specialists explore how websites such as Find My Past and Ancestry must adhere to certain requests to remove records from the public domain.

SearchFlow, the UK’s leading conveyancing search solutions provider, has today launched its redesigned Quote Referral System (QRS), which gives property lawyers a simple way to quickly capture and respond to quotation requests or referrals for new conveyancing business.

In July 2017 the UK government announced that Making Tax Digital (MTD) for VAT will come into effect from April 2019. This means businesses who meet the VAT threshold will have to keep their records digitally and provide their VAT return through MTD compatible software.

Temple Legal Protection is delighted to announce it has signed a new five year contract for underwriting provision with RSA, one of the largest and strongest insurers in the UK. The arrangement sees Temple Legal Protection provide its customers with a comprehensive range of legal expenses insurance products with limits of up to £2.5m, backed by RSA.

We are delighted to welcome Mark Baxter from 5 Stone Buildings who will be presenting the next instalment of Certainty Expert Webinars.The webinar will look at recent decisions in contentious probate and related cases, and a review of where the law related to challenging Wills or claiming the estate stands.

Thomson Reuters has expanded its legal know-how and legislative resources for the Scottish legal system. The new resources include the Scots Law resource centre on Practical Law and the addition of Scottish Bills on Westlaw UK.