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Legal technology innovator, Peppermint Technology, has been selected from 640,000 Microsoft partners worldwide to be one of 10 feature stories at its worldwide conference 2012 this coming week. The event, attended by over 15,000 partners, provides an insight to Microsoft’s long term strategy and vision, product roadmap as well as sharing partner success and best practice.

Conveyancing searches are set to get faster following the launch of SearchFlow’s new website. The completely overhauled, state-of-the-art B2B interface has been developed with usability as the guiding principle. It also offers greater flexibility for different categories of searches and, for the first time, users are able to select multiple ‘favourite’ search options, so conveyancing professionals can choose templates for different categories of property.

Property search provider SearchFlow has welcomed last week’s publication of the review into hydraulic fracturing (fracking) by the Royal Society and the Royal Academy of Engineering. Richard Hinton, business development director at SearchFlow, said there are still further issues which… Read More

Staff at national law firm Irwin Mitchell are celebrating after winning a top HR industry accolade for its inspiring workplace diversity strategy. Irwin Mitchell achieved the best workplace diversity award at the HR Excellence Awards 2012, on Monday 25 June at the Hilton Hotel, Park Lane in London.

SOS is again exhibiting at the Manchester Law Society’s annual management conference, being held on 28 June 2012 at the Lowry Hotel.

First Title has adapted and consolidated its suite of tailored legal indemnity policies for the renewable sector under the new umbrella of ‘Green Title’. The move comes in the wake of increasing demand for bespoke title insurance policies from growing numbers of developers and funders involved in renewable development projects.

Growth in our economy is the key issue today. On 25 May 2012, David Willetts, the minister of state for universities and science, outlined the government’s vision for high-tech growth in a speech at the University of East Anglia.

Professional services – a sector worth £35bn to the UK alone – is being transformed, and not just by economic forces. Legal market deregulation in the shape of Alternative Business Structures is disrupting the traditional model of legal services, setting the scene for a whole new era of innovation.

To celebrate the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee, LexisNexis asked its LexisPSL team to nominate 10 landmark legal cases that have taken place during Her Majesty’s reign. The LexisPSL team consists of 75 lawyers who cover a range of practice area from commercial and tax law through to family and crime. We surveyed the team and below are what they consider to be the milestone cases that have had an impact on society.

Full-service North Yorkshire practice Crombie Wilkinson Solicitors is implementing Eclipse Legal System’s Proclaim practice management software system in a six-figure deal.