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Hudgell Solicitors says its move into new headquarters on a £15m commercial development in Hull’s Fruit Market demonstrates both its long-term commitment to the city and its desire to be at the heart of its continued regeneration.

Higgs & Sons is a modern, forward thinking practice that has never forgotten its roots. The Midlands based firm remains true to its values of client service and technical excellence: trusted by thousands of clients to protect their interests, and still continuing to do so.

Leading legal expenses insurance provider ARAG plc has issued the following statement from Managing Director, Tony Buss, about recent media coverage of the Lord Chancellor’s decision to cut the discount rate applied to serious injury claims from 2.5% to minus 0.75%

Following five years of consistent high growth for Redbrick Solutions, the legal case management experts have welcomed another two new members to their team this month.

LexisNexis UK, a leading provider of content and technology solutions, today announced the expansion of their strategic relationship with Exari. Already using Exari technology to power Lexis Smart (online automated software) products, LexisNexis UK will now offer Exari’s innovative DocGen™ document generation solution to its customers. LexisNexis will be the exclusive distributor of Exari’s document generation technology to UK law firms.

Following a successful webinar in February, SRA Senior Policy Executive Richard Williams will join VinciWorks’ Director of Best Practice Gary Yantin on 22nd March at 12pm for another meeting. They will discuss the first five months of the SRA’s new approach to continuing competence and take participant questions. The webinar will focus on the challenges firms have faced in implementing the new regime and provide advice on effecting culture change regarding learning. We will also discuss the phrase “reflection”, what it means and when to do it.

Tikit, a global provider of technology solutions to legal firms, today announced a record year for its mid-market P4W sales team. The news follows a record Q3, with key major new business wins from Clarion, the Wilkes Partnership, Blandy & Blandy LLP, Dawson Cornwell, HSR Law, and Fletcher Day. This brings significant new P4W client acquisitions to 15 so far in financial year 2016/17 with several more major signings expected before the end of March. Richard Higgs, Sales Director at Tikit, said “we have seen a significant increase in the uptake of our P4W practice and case management system this year; particularly amongst firms in the 100-500 user sector. Firms want to invest with a supplier that has a solid track record, demonstrable investment in the product, and, above all, a satisfied client base with willing reference sites. P4W is the obvious choice for many of these firms; providing comprehensive functionality with the flexibility to deal with increasing client demand, and the challenges the future has to bring.”

“We’ve experienced phenomenal growth over the last year and Proclaim has seamlessly scaled with us. Thanks to the high level of automation built into the system we’re now in a position to process larger volumes of cases, and at a much quicker rate.

Over 22 leading firms joined Director of Best Practice Gary Yantin and SRA Policy Executive, Richard Williams for the second continuing competence user group. This candid conversation between the firms and the regulator focussed on how firms are implementing continuing competence since the changes to CPD in November, and to share best practice.

One of the greatest quotes of all time, when it comes to learning came from Benjamin Franklin, one of the United States founding fathers. “Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn,” he said.