Inheritance Tax – to be or not to be
Following Boris Johnson’s announcement about a £12bn a year tax hike to cover Health and Social Care, experts’ attention has moved onto wealth taxes and they have been giving their opinions on what ‘could’ and ‘should’ happen.
What can WillSuite bring to your boardroom table?
As a leading provider of legal tech, WillSuite enables you to draft legally compliant documents which don’t confuse and bemuse your clients. As a software provider responsible for the operations of hundreds of firms we take our responsibility seriously.
Search Acumen comments on HMRC’s Monthly Property Transactions for August 2021
The latest UK monthly property transactions data shows the provisional seasonally adjusted estimate of UK residential transactions in August 2021 is 98,300, 20.8% higher than August 2020 and 32.0% higher than July 2021
Iken Business Ltd and Bundledocs announce software integration
Iken Cloud goes from strength to strength. The innovative and feature-rich case and knowledge management cloud solution fully integrates with Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace and is successfully managing complex and diverse workloads. Through Iken Cloud organisations are saving costs, adding value, and driving productivity.
Is there a demand for medallion guarantees in the UK?
A Medallion Signature Guarantee, also known as a Medallion Stamp, is a unique certification stamp introduced by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in 1992. It guarantees the authenticity of an investor’s signature. The Medallion Signature Guarantee Programme protects shareholders by making it harder to forge signatures for unauthorised, fraudulent transfers. It also limits the liability of the transfer agent accepting the certificates by providing a guarantee on the legitimacy of stocks and shares to be sold or transferred.
The importance of client-facing technology for law firms
The global pandemic has shown that the way clients want to communicate with their law firm has changed. The pre-pandemic model of clients turning up at the office and accessing legal services via traditional means is largely a thing of the past. Clients are embracing the digital shift. They now expect a better service, often for less, with technology playing a leading role, and expectations have changed following their experiences with other service industries, such as insurance and banking.
Uncovering assets faster and more reliably
A key part of administering an estate is gathering the assets and liabilities of the deceased. This has become increasingly problematic in recent years with the increase in the way in which we connect and communicate. Moving to a more ‘paperless’ and immediate lifestyle, these changes make things far easier to access and so people’s lives are more disparate. If the deceased died without putting their financial affairs in order, the locating of assets and liabilities can be extremely difficult and timely to complete. So, isn’t it time we used technology to make things easier?
Redbrick Solutions launch new version of award winning conveyancing case management
Redbrick Solutions have announced this week that the latest version of their award winning case management solution has been released. This marks the 23rd version of ‘Redbrick Practice Management’ and includes a number of enhancements and new functionality to benefit clients, such as…
