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Employment Law
Bob Spicer’s May 2025 Employment Law Case Update
Catch up on key employment law rulings from Apr 25–May 24, 2025, with expert case summaries by Bob Spicer, shared via Chronicle Law.
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SEO Optimisation
How Do I Get My Blogs Seen – Five Quick Fixes Every Author Should Know
Struggling to get eyes on your blog? You’re not alone. Too many great articles vanish into the digital void, but it doesn’t have to be that way. In this insightful piece, our very own SEO advisor, Rich Holgate of Accesspoint Legal, shares five quick and easy SEO fixes that every author should know.
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Family Law
Free Webinar! What hair really tells us: science over stereotypes
Join Cansford Labs’ Amy Duda as she busts myths on drug detection in hair, from passive smoke to melanin, in this evidence-led webinar.
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Digital Marketing
User Testing Benefits for Law Firms
In this article, Chris Lucarelli of Cal Partners explores how user and usability testing can give law firms a competitive edge by enhancing digital client experience.
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Leadership skills
Breaking Down Silos: The Competitive Edge of Collaborative Legal Practice
In this article, Katie da Gama explores how collaborative legal practice in shared purpose, psychological safety, and client-focused teamwork offers a competitive edge.
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Mental Health
Is your workplace toxic? How employers can shield you from stress
Workplace stress can lead to serious mental and physical health consequences, affecting productivity, job satisfaction, and overall wellbeing. In this article, Jessica Rowson of Oakwood Solicitors outlines the legal responsibilities employers have to protect staff from occupational stress, common causes of stress at work, and what employees can do if they feel unsupported.
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 […]
Is Alpha Legal the *fastest* as well as the most secure way to collect and verify ID? Take 3 minutes to read this and decide for yourself
We’ve been analysing the time being taken by clients to complete their ID document requests within Alpha Legal. We’re regularly seeing start-to-finish times of 3 minutes now. That’s literally 3 minutes for the user to Compare that to the physical process of visiting you in your office, bringing their paperwork in, having you photocopy or scan it and then you […]
Learn How to Protect Yourself from Ransomware with These Cybersecurity Essentials
From the attack on Hackney council to the Kaseya attack that demanded $70 Million USD, ransomware is posing more of a threat than ever. Especially thanks to COVID-19. For those who are unfamiliar, ransomware is a type of malware that is stealthily installed on an unsuspecting user’s P.C to extract money from their organisation. Before we go into how to […]
Something out of nothing? The significance of neutral findings in sexual assault cases
It is often said that the absence of evidence does not equate to evidence of absence, and whilst this might be true in many situations – for example, the absence of blood on the clothing of an alleged assailant might be because he did not commit the offence or alternatively because the complainant was not […]
The Changing Landscape of Family Law for England and Wales in 2022
Family law webinar: Family law in England and Wales is changing rapidly. This webinar will dig into some of the key upcoming changes for 2022, specifically looking at the Family Law Language Project, no-fault divorce, and the shift towards non-court dispute resolution. CPD certificates available upon request Learning Objectives: About OurFamilyWizard Working alongside clients on […]
Find new clients on virtual law platform Lawyer 365
Law firms are constantly seeking new ways to stay ahead of the competition and market their legal services. Like all businesses, law firms need to be marketing themselves to attract new potential clients and must consistently engage with prospects at every point in the customer journey to succeed. In the digital age, where attention is […]
Introducing Casedo
The challenge we have as a business is that Casedo is not a tool that has equivalents, people don’t know that they need it, because they have only ever used document viewers, PDF Editors and Word Processors to manage their groups of related documents. Casedo offers a no-tab workflow where all your documents appears as […]
The benefits of a remote AML check for solicitors
In the legal sector, money laundering is a growing concern for most law firms. Fraudsters continue to take advantage of weak security measures and they continue to slip through the safety net. Creating a continued threat to practices. AML checks are a critical process in a law firm’s security measures to mitigate the risk of […]
Safety Standards?
Why Standards? Everybody has standards that they work to, whether they realise it or not. With the introduction of ISO 45001 in 2018, the issue of standards was again in the news and people asked which standards are right for them. However this ignored the bigger question about all the other standards that also exist […]
The Great Post Office Scandal
Nick Wallis has written what feels like the most important book I have ever read. “The Great Post Office Scandal” begins with a short foreword by Seema Misra, a victim of the scandal and the former subpostmaster for West Byfleet. It is hard to imagine anything more gently suburban, but in just six short paragraphs, […]
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