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Having a website is like advertising on a billboard in the middle of the desert – it’s pretty useless unless people are driving past to see it. It’s exactly the same with cyberspace.

When the end-of-life date arrives, it is estimated thone in four PCs will still be running Windows 7. This figure will be higher in industries slower to embrace IT developments – legal is likely to be amongst those.

Cyber-attacks are becoming ever increasingly low tech, but more wide ranging. According to the SRA, in the first six months of 2019, law firms reported a loss of £731,250 of client money.

According to recent consumer-facing research, reputation and trust are the most important factors when it comes to choosing a law firm.

Our clients that renewed during this period recorded an average fee increase of 7.5%. The partner size segment that experienced the largest growth in percentage terms was 11-25 partners, at 11.3%.

Despite all of its advantages by way of ease and efficiency in a digital world, storing data within the cloud does not come without risks. Firms have to ensure they are safeguarded from a potentially disastrous loss.

Since the abolition of the Solicitors Indemnity Fund, the October professional indemnity insurance renewal season has always been a challenge, but this year most law firms saw their premiums go up.

If you forced 10 cyber-criminals to sit through an average law firm’s IT committee meeting, they’d be turning themselves in to the National Crime Agency before it reached AOB.

If you already comply with the current accounts rules, it’s entirely plausible you don’t need to do anything to comply with the new ones from 25 November. However, we advise against this myopic course of action.

As time moves on, methods of crime and the laundering of its products change. In this blog we will look at five unexpected ways in which law firms and lawyers can fall foul of criminals.