Furloughed but never forgotten
Have you arranged refresher training yet for your staff that may have been on furlough? The government is actively encouraging employers to do so and the Institute is ready and keen to help you provide it.
SearchFlow responds to property industry announcements from the Spring Budget
Dr Tom Quirke, managing director of SearchFlow, the UK’s largest provider of legal due diligence data for residential and commercial property transactions, explains the market implications of the Stamp Duty Land Tax holiday extension to September, announced in the Chancellor of the Exchequer’s Spring Budget
Perfect Portal launches payment feature within their mobile apps
The leading mobile app provider in the legal industry, Perfect Portal has launched a new feature for consumers to make payments via a firm’s mobile app. The unforeseen circumstances of the past year have comprehensively impacted the way industries model their business. It isn’t a matter of rolling with the punches, but in fact working smarter: those that succeed during adverse conditions acclimatise to best fit the needs of their clients.
Minimising the Risk of Fraud
PracticeEvolve, SOS and Linetime are offering an insightful fraud webinar, investigating the types of fraud and what firms can do to minimise the threat.
Introducing Tower Street Finance
If you haven’t heard of us, we’re an inheritance lending specialist that offers innovative, no risk, accessible financial products for beneficiaries and executors of estates. We currently have two unique products that were designed after extensive customer research, and in the last ten months we’ve worked with many solicitors to help them solve their customers’ inheritance problems.
Thousands of claims lodged against Uber to enforce worker rights
Keller Lenkner UK has filed claims in both the Employment Tribunal and the High Court on behalf of approximately 8,000 Uber drivers to enforce worker rights following the Supreme Court decision in Uber v Aslam.
What should conveyancers expect in 2021?
The past 12 months have seen massive changes in ways of working for all of us, not least in the conveyancing market. The Solicitors Regulation Authority chair Anna Bradley, speaking at the SRA compliance conference in November 2020 commented on this: ‘People think of the legal sector as stuffy and old-fashioned and slow when actually, the sector and all the attendant bodies like ourselves have responded fast and shown themselves to be flexible – we should all be proud of that. ‘I think we need to stay that way.
New AML guidance for law firms
Following the fifth AML (anti-money laundering) directive last year, the legal sector’s definitive guide on the subject has undergone a radical overhaul. Led by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA), the Legal Sector Affinity Group, a niche practice that offers specialist advice for law firms on risk, has carried out an extensive revision to the guidance.
