New Risk Management Framework For Law Firms
Specialist risk and compliance consultancy Legal Eye has brought together its 12 years of experience to create a comprehensive risk management framework designed specifically for law firms. This new product from Legal Eye helps firms to mitigate risk and to improve on working practices and efficiencies by providing high quality template documents for firms to […]
How Trainees Are Helping One Firm Pivot Their Business In The Face Of Covid-19
Being a great lawyer doesn’t mean you are a great business person Along with many other professional and medical disciplines, lawyers excel in producing experts within their own specialisms. But what the pandemic has proved is that being a great litigator, conveyancing or private client lawyer does not necessarily equip them well for the challenges […]
Join UKLTA’s Information Security Review Forum
The next UKLTA online forum focussing on information security and privacy takes place on Thursday 16th July at 5pm. Four months on from the initial coronavirus lockdown, many firms have now adapted to new ways of working. For many firms, changes to working practices were brought about swiftly. In this session our panellists will review […]
New Conveyancing Firm Launched
Today, Monday 13 July 2020, sees the launch of Movus Law – a brand new entrant to the market, set up by a team of experts in conveyancing and property development. Spearheaded by Kevin Steele and Gordon Bishop, two experienced and well-respected lawyers in the residential property market, this new firm whose proposition is ‘move […]
Has Lockdown Changed The Way People Interact With The Legal Sector?
As the UK adjusted to life in lockdown, the way people contacted the legal sector with enquiries, seemed to shift from the traditional telephone route, to online chat. Moneypenny, which handles more than 2 million legal calls and live chats each year for more than 1,000 legal firms in the UK, have shared with Today’s […]
HM Land Registry Announces Introduction Of Electronic Signatures
Mike Harlow, the Deputy Chief Executive and Deputy Chief Land Registrar, in his blog has announced that following the many questions received from customers regarding electronic signatures, as “printing, posting and scanning can be a pain”, Land Registry will soon be introducing witnessed electronic signatures. There are two forms of signatures that HMLR will be […]