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Resolving overseas inheritance can take years, holiday home owners warned
People who inherit overseas holiday homes may have to wait years before they receive the value of the properties, specialist asset repatriation company Title Research has warned.
MDA sells SearchFlow and other information businesses to TPG Capital
MacDonald Dettweiler and Associates, the Legal Futures Associate better known as MDA, owners of the UK conveyancing search giant SearchFlow, has sold its information products division to TPG Capital, a global private investment company.
HCML appoints Simon Dawson as COO
Leading rehabilitation case management company Health and Case Management Ltd (HCML), a Legal Futures Associate, has completed a major restructuring exercise with the appointment of a new chief operating officer.
Solicitors Referrals launches SearchLite, Solicitor Jobs announces special offer
Legal Futures Associate Solicitors Referrals has launched SearchLite, a low-cost alternative for law firms looking to link up with other solicitors to make or receive referrals – the latest stage in its bid to make solicitors less reliant on third… Read More
Byfield and Cubism Law co-found PR and legal crisis management service
A new international regulatory investigations and crisis management service was launched today by leading white collar crime specialists Cubism Law and crisis management and litigation PR specialists Byfield Consultancy in the UK and Infinite Public Relations in the US.
Jures needs your help to highlight the pressures on small firms
Legal Futures Associate Jures, a research company and think-tank dedicated to the legal services market, has been commissioned by a leading legal publishing company to undertake a survey amongst small law firms (five partners or fewer) aimed at identifying the… Read More
Rise in “DIY probate” is stoking risk of tax avoidance and fraud
The growing trend for relatives to do their own probate is increasing the risk of tax fraud and the incorrect distribution of assets, a specialist probate research company has warned. Title Research, which is a Legal Futures Associate, says government statistics indicate that the share of probates undertaken by solicitors has fallen from 72% of all probates in 2004 to just 65% in 2009.
Barker Gotelee chooses SOS to replace AIM as it gears up for growth
East Anglian firm Barker Gotelee has chosen SOS Connect from Legal Futures Associate Solicitors Own Software to help the firm capitalise on business growth coming out of the recession and improve business processes with a complete revamp of IT.
SRA approves ARP reforms despite threat of legal action from minority group
The board of the Solicitors Regulation Authority today pushed ahead with reforms to the assigned risks pool (ARP) despite the threat of a legal challenge from the Black Solicitors Network. March’s “in principle” decision to close the ARP to new firms and halve the length of time firms can spend in it to a year was confirmed after the board considered a full equality impact assessment which concluded that both proposals had a potential adverse impact on race equality.
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Five key issues to consider when adopting an AI-based legal tech
As generative AI starts to play a bigger role in our working lives, there are some key issues that your law firm needs to consider when adopting an AI-based legal tech.
Bulk litigation – not always working in consumers interests
For consumers to get the benefit, bulk litigation needs to be done well, and we are increasingly concerned that there are significant problems in some areas of this market.
ABSs, cost and audits – fixing regulation after Axiom Ince
A feature of law firm collapses and frauds has sometimes been the over-concentration of power in outdated and overburdened systems of control.
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