Protect and serve
Jim Watson, managing director of data destruction service Shred Easy, and Daniel Berke, a fraud solicitor at Lewis Hymanson Small in Manchester and London, look at data protection among law firms and discuss the recent decision to allow the Information Commissioner’s Office to levy fines of up to £500,000 to organisations which seriously breach the Data Protection Act.
Service with a smile?
The Provision of Services Regulations contain provisions as to the information which lawyers must give to clients and customers. Duncan Finlyson of Lawyers Defence Group outlines their implications
Man in the middle
Now the Legal Services Board has taken on its full powers to supervise the legal profession, Legal Futures Editor Neil Rose talks to its chairman, David Edmonds, to see what lawyers can expect of it.
Grey, shy and retiring? Not us!
Patricia Wheatley Burt (FCIPD), a director of Legal Futures Associate Trafalgar, argues that firms need to develop strategies to retain older lawyers, for everyone’s benefit.
Accounting for success
Alison Gorringe, chief executive of the Institute of Legal Cashiers & Administrators, looks at some of the issues around the Solicitors Accounts Rules, such as what to do with small balances left over on a file.
