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A new online Self-screening Bot has been launched to help law firms manage clients’ safety more easily, before any face-to-face meetings take place.

Comment by James Harper, Executive Sponsor, LexisNexis Rule of Law Foundation & Former General Counsel: Black Lives Matter is important on a number of levels. It brings into stark focus a deep-rooted inequality experienced by a specific community, an inequality that has become so normalised and entrenched in many people’s lives that it ceases to stand out as being wrong.

The Leaders Council of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is currently in the process of talking to leadership figures from across the nation in an attempt to understand this universal trait and what it means in Britain and Northern Ireland today.

In episode six of Topical Talks, Title Research was joined by expert guest, Holly Mieville-Hawkins, Senior Associate at Enable Law. Holly is an expert in the field of Court of Protection work, specialising in making and defending applications.

Purchasing land, whether for continued agricultural use, diversification schemes or larger projects such as renewable energy and essential infrastructure can prove complex. Understanding the land’s historic activities alongside any sensitive habitats and other pathways that could affect the land could help to avoid any liability for the land owners

LexisNexis have worked with ARPAS, the UK Drone Association, and Bird & Bird to create what is believed to be the first published template Drone Services Agreement, written specifically to mitigate the legal challenges faced by the drone industry in England and Wales.

A survey conducted by data management business DSA Connect has found that 30% of employees are handling more data and that more than a third (37%) anticipated an increase in both the number and value of data breach fines by 2025.

You’ve probably had to get used to lots of changes these past few months. The biggest of which for many will have been adapting to working from home.