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Employment Law
Robert Spicer’s April Employment Law Case Update
Robert Spicer’s April round up of case summaries featuring unfair dismissal, discrimination and employment tribunals.
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Mental Health
Burnout in the Legal Profession: The Questions We’re Finally Starting to Ask
Burnout isn’t new in law—but talking about it is. Dr Catherine Sykes answers 3 common questions.
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Mental Health
LawCare: Let’s Talk About Gen Z
Join LawCare during Mental Health Week
for a webinar on how generational shifts are shaping the legal profession.
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Legal News
UK Supreme Court Faces Defining Moment in Car Finance Commission Case
The Supreme Court reviews a key case on car finance commissions, with £44bn at stake. A ruling could reshape transparency and industry practices
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Criminal Law
Spotlight on LMP Legal – Bringing the law to life
We are excited to feature LMP Legal in our spotlight series this April discussing the fantastic work that the firm does in the transport and logistics industry to bring the law to life.
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Industrial Disease Claims
Global Asbestos Awareness Week 2025
Our colleague Liam Hill from Oakwood Solicitors shares with us a guide to asbestosis as part of efforts to raise awareness of the disease and the firms work to support victims.
Guardcover Launch Unoccupied Property “Block Policy” Solution for Solicitors
Guardcover is delighted to announce the launch of our much anticipated Unoccupied Property Insurance Block Declaration Model, designed especially for Solicitors.
This brand-new approach allows you to quickly and simply insure multiple properties across your practice under a single policy; whether they have been left unoccupied in probate, deputyship, intestate, or even during the conveyancing process.
5 Questions You Need to Ask When Requesting a Hair Drug and Alcohol Test
It’s no secret that everyone working in ‘family justice’ is operating at the ‘extent of their capacity’, a fact highlighted earlier this year by Sir Andrew McFarlane, the president of the Family Division of the High Court and the most senior family court judge in England and Wales.
Tracing Direct – Experts at tracing beneficiaries – Case Study on Pamela Lamb
Locating missing beneficiaries can be a daunting process. Without access to the right contacts, data, or sources, it can seem difficult to know where to start. This, coupled with the potential beneficiaries being located overseas, can make the difficult feel almost impossible.
Tracing Direct have the skills, knowledge, and expertise to help you locate missing beneficiaries from across the globe. It’s this unique skillset combined with their years of experience that meant they were able to locate lost beneficiaries to an estate that had
Will Hot Tub Use Affect My Client’s Hair Drug Test Result?…and Other Questions
In an article first published in The Review earlier this year, Cansford Laboratories founder Lolita Tsanaclis answers some of the most frequently asked questions around hair drug and alcohol testing.
Best Foundation now working in partnership with Alpha Legal – new subscribers receive 1,000 free credits
The Best Foundation is the new estate planning membership organisation devoted to modernising and improving the will-writing industry.
Easy to Action Interviewing Strategies for Legal Hiring Managers
Interviewing can be just as tough for hiring managers as it is for candidates.
Here’s everything you need to know as a legal hiring manager to hold a great interview
Press Release – by Clayton Legal
Clayton Legal are leading recruitment specialists with over two decades of sector experience- matching legal professionals at all levels to the very best opportunities in the market.
With long-established, and trusted relationships across a client base that includes Legal 500, Top 200,
Regional and Boutique law firms, our team are passionate about driving service excellence across the
business and impacting the careers, and lives, of legal talent across the country.
We take our role in the placing of legal professionals into their dream jobs extremely seriously,
understanding implicitly the importance of listening to requirements, working in their best interest at all times, and giving them the tools and resources, they need at every step of the journey – for a successful outcome for all parties.
Could Family Legal Aid Lawyers Be Next in Line to Strike?
In his latest post, family law blogger John Bolch examines whether a strike could be a distinct possibility if the supply of goodwill runs out as legal colleagues continue to face extreme pressures with cases and courts.
Tracing Direct – Recent Case Study
Recent case study detailing the expert tracing services delivered by Tracing Direct – 15 years experience and experts in tracing beneficiaries
The Divorce Revolution
Family law blogger John Bolch examines divorce, the new law that has come into effect on April 1st and whether it will reduce animosity, encourage mediation and improve the system as a whole.
Newsflash – Important message from John Wicks, CEO: 3-day turnaround delivery from Cansford
A message from John Wicks about our three day turn-around time and how we are bucking the industry trend when it can often take up to two weeks to get sample results. We don’t get in the way of caseloads and productivity – or court dates.
Cansford says if you order Monday you can get your results on Friday of the same week.
Alpha Legal and Clio are now partners! Alpha Legal are in the Clio App Store
Solicitors and other legal practices using Clio can now share contacts and documents via Alpha Legal’s secure client portal giving clients the best possible experience.
5 Tips to Help Your Law Firm with Anti Money Laundering
Anti-money laundering for law firms has always been a concern, what is “enough” information on a client to determine they’re legitimate, and their money is legal? But over the past few years there has been a growing concern within the industry as a whole, specifically pushed by the SRA and Law Society that enough simply isn’t being done. Take for example the story of Mishcon de Reya being fined for AML compliance breaches. They were smacked with a fine of £232,500 which highlights the reinvigorated push for better AML compliance and AML checks within law firms.
With the need for more stringent anti-money laundering checks in the legal sector, we have put together a list of some top tips on how to help you combat money-laundering.
Your Legal CV: Why It’s Still Critical to Your Success This Year
If you are ready to move on in your legal career, I have a question for you; is your CV profiling you in
the best light? I explain more in this week’s posts. ->
An Introduction to Tracing Direct
Regarded as one of the most efficient, swift, and responsive finders of people. Tracing direct has been committed to assisting organisations identify rightful beneficiaries to both intestate and testate estates for over fifteen years. Established in 2007, Tracing Direct has developed a successful and proven strategy to locate unknown beneficiaries around the globe. Their proficient […]
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