
April 2022 data breach roundup
The month of April saw various data breaches occur across a number of industries in the UK. Many of which occurred due to hackers accessing systems, but also via human error.

Climate Change: 7.65 million homes could be exposed to subsidence risk by the 2080s
Data analysis from Dye & Durham has identified that more than 7.65 million properties in Great Britain could be exposed to medium or high risk of soil subsidence by the 2080s – an increase of over 1.89 million individual property addresses – as a result of climate change.

Search Acumen comments on HMRC’s property transactions data for May 2022
The latest HMRC property transaction data covering May 2022 shows a 1.6% jump in transactions from the month previous. Transactions are down 2% on May 2021

Choose your backup provider wisely
We were recently contacted by an IT Support Managed Service Provider (MSP) business who had lost many of their end user backup accounts when their previous well known USA based cloud backup provider carried out an update.

Legal Futures summer reading offer – 30% off The Great Post Office Scandal
Most Legal Futures readers will be well aware of the controversies whipped up among the legal profession by the scandal at the Post Office. Should the lawyers have blown the whistle? Were prosecutions made without sufficient disclosure to those charged? Where should an in-house lawyer’s allegiances lie? All these have been raised time and again on these pages over the past two or three years.

Walker Foster – ‘Minerva is the perfect fit’
Walker Foster Solicitors, a law firm serving market towns and rural areas across the North of England for generations, is truly seeing the value in their investment of intelligent client onboarding technology developed by LFS.

Free webinar: Using Clio to manage legal aid matters and billing
With increased paperwork, expansive documentation, and more administrative overhead—the burden is high. Clio’s legal aid solution for law firms can give you hours—even days—back in your month.

Leverage your data to get ahead of the competition
When used intelligently and securely, your data can inform decision-making, promote efficiency, increase profitability, and help to nurture strong relationships with clients. Law firms that embrace digital transformation and that understand the importance of the data that they hold will find themselves ahead of competitors who are not so data driven. So, how can data help your law firm gain a competitive edge?








