During the pandemic, the main focus of the Legal Aid Agency has been to help providers continue legal aid services for clients, identifying new flexible ways of working. The pandemic has created opportunities for these providers to improve their systems by becoming more agile and therefore offer a better service.   Legal aid firms have […]

Property Searches Scotland, part of the tmgroup family, are pleased to announce that they have won ‘Support Team of the Year’ at the 17th Annual Scottish Legal Awards; recognising the best performing individuals, teams and firms in the Scottish legal profession. Over 250 guests watched the national awards celebration online, after the live event was […]

David Chapman, Head of Marketing for Zylpha has joined an international roster of globally-renowned DJs to live-stream continuously for 60 hours in a bid to raise funds for 2-year-old Mollie McCaughan. Mollie requires treatment for Neuroblastoma, an aggressive type of cancer that affects young children. The #Mix4Mollie event, hosted by the eRave365 DJ team is […]

Regularly cited in Chambers UK and The Legal 500, Memery Crystal is a leading international law firm based in London. At a time when law firms across the globe are facing more competition for new business, and having to ensure consistent and professional branding to attract new clients, the innovative firm has opted for BigHand […]

LexisNexis Legal & Professional, a leading global provider of information and analytics, today announced a new collaboration with Index Solutions (Index), whose contact cleaning and monitoring services improve relationship-based business development by combining human and artificial intelligence. The relationship will focus on the integration of Index with LexisNexis® InterAction®, the industry’s leading client relationship platform […]

Creating a great website without adding the proper marketing tools for it to be found, is about as useful as throwing an exciting party without sending out any invitations! As many SME firms once again close their physical doors to new clients, it is now extremely important to ensure that your virtual doors are not […]

LexisNexis Enterprise Solutions today unveiled Lexis® Omni, a flexible technology platform that will power optimised legal service delivery for any legal services organisation needing to do more with less. Organisations adopting Lexis® Omni will have access to new tools that will allow them to deploy tailored solutions in familiar Microsoft environments to match their business […]

Here we go again – as soon as the Prime Minister’s announcement was made, the biggest question for the legal sector, along with if courts were to remain open, was if house moves could still continue. With levels higher than ever caused by pent up demand of lockdown #1 and then the Chancellor’s SDLT freeze, the […]

The legal sector, like so many others is adapting and pivoting all the time to figure out how to provide service to its clients. With meeting clients at best restricted, remaining regulatory compliant at a time when legal services continue to be in demand, is feeling for some to be an uphill struggle. Working remotely […]

This week the HMLR have announced that the time is now with the confirmation that electronic signatures will be accepted, as long as there is a witness present at the time to also sign – conveyancing has finally arrived in the 21st Century. Digitalising transactions and matter files has been on the agenda of many […]

On the 10th January 2020 the 5th Money Laundering directive was adopted into UK legislation and with it came the obligations that had been enacted before; that you know your client (KYC) and ensure you comply with the 3 steps of the KYC compliance framework: Customer identification Customer Due Diligence (CDD) Enhanced Due Diligence (EDD) […]

To suggest 2020 has been a turbulent year would be an understatement. As words like unprecedented, R number and new-normal spread like wildfire through the social lexicon, a paradigm shift was taking place in what has become the largest scale social experiment on the planet. When countries locked down overnight, businesses had to find alternative […]

Yesterday we held the fifth in our series of webinars around pricing, LPM, profitability and the use of technology in law firms. This installment saw our usual panelists; Mark Medice of Law Vision and Pieter van der Hoeven of Clocktimizer; joined by Barry Honea, the Chief Financial Officer of Locke Lord. In light of the increasing challenges facing […]