June 2021 Data Breach Roundup
In June, there were a number of significant data breaches, including schools who were forced to close following cyber-attacks, sensitive patient data being left in an abandoned care home and a major video games developer admitting that data belonging to their users is freely circulating on the internet.
inCase Legal App acquires QuoteXpress, a UK-based digital quote-generating platform
inCase Legal App received £1.5m private investment in May 2020 and are pleased to announce their first acquisition of the award-winning digital quote generating tool, QuoteXpress. This acquisition is a growth-driven result of inCase improving the portfolio of products offered to their legal industry clients.
Vardags selects Advanced to implement NetDocuments
NetDocuments and Advanced, international providers of leading legal technology, together announce that Vardags, a Top 200 ranked law firm that specialises in high net worth and complex divorce cases, has selected Advanced to implement NetDocuments’ Cloud-based document management solution to aid the firm’s future strategic direction.
Responding to customer needs in a space that’s ready for innovation
Responding to consumer needs and a feeling that now is the time that the estate administration space is ready to embrace innovation were key topics discussed in our recent webinar. Tower Street Finance’s Dicky Davies joined forces with Josif Grace from Legado and Aleks Tomczyk from Exizent to talk about innovation in estate administration, in a session chaired by David Opie, Managing Director of Today’s Wills & Probate.
Quill releases legal technology guide to help smart law firms adapt to the challenging demands of 2021
With 74% of senior UK partners looking to invest more in technology, and with 2020 having presented one of the biggest technological infrastructure challenges in living memory, Quill has published a new eBook to help practice managers invest in the technologies which will bring the most benefits to their law firms.
Flood Risk: Are we doing enough to protect ourselves and our assets?
A flood is the most effective and indiscriminate ‘burglar’ there is. It will take everything you have, including items of no value to anyone else. I’ve not been the victim of a flood myself. My experience of flooding fortunately has been from an armchair. However, as we move to a more hostile and unpredictable climate, it’s impossible to ignore. You only need to look back to last year to see several records broken.
Construction industry runs hot but risks remain
Construction output fell 0.8% in May 2021 with the level of output remaining slightly above its pre-pandemic February 2020 level. In contrast to the monthly fall, construction output grew by 6.3% in the three months to May 2021.
Former subpostmasters speak of lives ruined in powerful and poignant Hudgell Solicitors film on Post Office Horizon Scandal
A ‘powerful and poignant’ new documentary on the Post Office Horizon Scandal has been broadcast telling the full ‘shocking’ impact on the lives of former subpostmasters wrongfully convicted of crimes they didn’t commit.
