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Birkenhead law firm, RMNJ is to implement Linetime’s Liberate legal services platform throughout the practice.

Conveyancers have seen a number of cases go through the courts involving identity fraud, resulting in the loss of client money; each causing them to carefully consider their practices to avoid liability.

For the fourth consecutive year, Concert Networks are carrying out their popular Secret Shopper research, looking at communication between leading law firms and their clients.

Western banks have been implicated in laundering billions of dollars from Russian criminals and oligarchs, a new investigation from The Guardian has shown. While the true figure could be as much as $80bn, commercial banks including HSBC, the Royal Bank of Scotland, Lloyds, Citibank and Bank of America have processed at least $800m from a vast Russian money-laundering operation.

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.