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To help legal professionals to stay on top of their ethics training and maintain a high standard of service for clients, a series of course updates have been launched by Access Legal, a leading provider of software and services to the UK legal market.
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New post-completion services promise fewer AP1 requisitions
Conveyancers will soon be able to reduce the number of requisitions their firm receives with the arrival of post-completion services on tmconvey. Designed to diminish the chance of manual error, this newest addition to the tmconvey platform will help conveyancers rise to the increasing pressure from Land Registry and HMRC to submit their SDLT and […]
HBR Consulting elevates president Nick Quil to chief executive officer
HBR Consulting LLC (HBR), a trusted advisor to law firms, law departments and corporations worldwide, is pleased to announce the elevation of president Nick Quil to the role of chief executive officer (CEO). Christopher Petrini-Poli, co-founder and current CEO, will assume the role of executive chairman on HBR’s Advisory Board, where he will advise on […]
GDPR compliance: is your organisation ready?
Over the course of this IG blog series, we have examined how the IG professional can align their IG program to directly support the mission and vision of their organization. Several case studies helped illustrate how this alignment allows the IG / RIM professional to contribute to the bottom line in meaningful ways. In this […]
How can you demonstrate GDPR data security compliance to your clients?
Our approach We believe that by having a culture of data protection and security, your organisation can demonstrate a real competitive advantage. To ensure your data protection and security readiness journey delivers on your objectives, Fifth Square has developed a methodical and pragmatic framework called AIM. (Assess, Implement and Manage). AIM delivers a three-stage process […]
What the Chancellor’s Spring Statement means for the employment landscape
Article written by Oliver Shaw, CEO of CascadeHR It may only have lasted 26 minutes, but chancellor Philip Hammond’s inaugural Spring Statement included a number of very encouraging points. Critics were quick to criticise Philip Hammond’s first Spring Statement. But that is perhaps simply the nature of politics. If an impartial party carefully dissects the 26-minute […]
GDPR: What to do before May
The GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) is quickly approaching. If you are unsure what the GDPR is and why it is important, please read about it here before you move on through this article. Now that you know what we are talking about, it is important to consider what you should be doing the next five […]
The main differences between the DPD and GDPR
The aim of the GDPR is to enable the people of the EU to better control their personal data. We will talk about specific ways the GDPR will do that in this whitepaper. The change came as 67% of Europeans expressed that they were concerned about not having control over their personal data and information […]
File sharing is here to stay.
Are you struggling with file sharing? You are not alone.Most large organizations are currently fighting the battle between the many different file shares their employees use. Recently, Verizon’s data was nearly compromised by the accidental upload of the data to a public cloud file share by a third party. Issues like this can span across […]
Miller Insurance Services: are you ready for GDPR?
The General Data Protection Regulation comes into effect across the European Union on May 25. It replaces the UK’s Data Protection Act 1998 (DPA) – and will bring data privacy up to date in the digital age. Brexit will not affect the new regulation as the government has confirmed it will fully incorporate it into […]
Aderant’s Momentum event returns to London as mini-series in 2018
Coming off a 2017 event that saw record attendance, Aderant is pleased to announce that its 2018 Momentum London Conference will be a mini-series. In response to attendee feedback, as well as to accommodate burgeoning interest from multiple functional roles within law firms, Aderant Momentum London will go from a one off, two-day event, to […]
“LegalKEY is dead, long live LegalKEY,” says Legal RM
Opportunist vultures are circling and misinformation being posted to various platforms about how LegalKEY is now a defunct or sunset records management product, one would expect OpenText, owners of LegalKEY, to speak out to reassure clients – The silence, however, has been deafening! With LegalKEY still being the market leading records management platform in the […]
Legal Workflow: responding to client enquiries from your website
How well are enquiries from your website being responded to? When law firms first started to promote themselves online their websites were little more than brochures. “This is who we are, this is where to find us and you can phone or email us for more information.” Many firms have now developed a much more […]
Intelligent Office UK: the incentives administrative support staff care about
A law firm is a team. Like all teams, success depends on cooperation, communication, and commitment from everyone… Which means administrative support staff are also key to the success of a firm. (As cheesy as it is, ‘A team is only as strong as its weakest link’.) For law firms that want to maximise efficiency and […]
