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iManage today announced open registration and a preliminary agenda for its second annual user conference, ConnectLive 2017, scheduled to take place in Chicago, May 24-25, 2017 at the Marriott Magnificent Mile and in London, June 27-28, 2017 at the InterContinental London – The O2 hotel.

Based in Stockport, Higgins Miller Solicitors specialises in divorce, matrimonial, family issues and children disputes. Offering legal services across the whole of England and Wales, the firm provides friendly but robust and practical client service.

Funeral plans need to be brought under the jurisdiction of the Financial Conduct Authority, according to one MP who has launched a Private Members Bill aimed at doing just that.

“Last week’s statistics on housing affordability proved just how disproportionate the gap between the average salary and house price has been over the past decade. Today’s ONS statistics reveal the first picture of the New Year and show us that the strong growth in UK house prices have little sign of easing. Average house prices in the UK have increased by 6.2 percent in the year to January 2017 – rising above December’s year-on-year growth – and will be leaving current homeowners celebrating whilst prospective buyers will be further deflated from their hopes of embarking on the housing ladder.

Lawyer Checker’s Account & Entity Screen saved a South-East property law firm from losing £375,000 of client funds to criminals.

“Today’s statistics reveal that the typical price paid for residential property in England and Wales increased by 259% between 1997 and 2016 – an obviously significant jump over nearly two decades. On average, working people could expect to pay around seven and a half times their annual salary when purchasing a home in England and Wales last year, up from around three and a half times their earnings twenty years ago. Evidently, the 21st century has seen home-ownership pushed far into the distance for many young professionals but we are now in danger of ‘Generation Rent’ encompassing house hunters of all ages.

Lexpo – the legal innovation event – announced that Harvard Law School Professor David B. Wilkins will be one of the keynote speakers at Lexpo’17, taking place 8 & 9 May 2017 at the Park Plaza Schiphol Airport hotel in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

National law firm Irwin Mitchell has announced 80 promotions across the country to a newly created Senior Associate role.

Leading costs, pricing and funding consultants Burcher Jennings have kicked off a year as the “baton holders” for Headway, the brain injury charity, with a “Budgets, J-codes and E-billing” training seminar for clients in the grounds of HM Prison Styal.

VinciWorks, a leading provider of online compliance courses for international business, has launched a brand new, fully customisable data protection course designed to help companies avoid serious data breaches and fines from the ICO.