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5 Tips to Help Your Law Firm with Anti Money Laundering

Jun 6, 2022 • 7 mins read

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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

May 24, 2022 • 8 mins read

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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. ->

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

May 10, 2022 • 1 min read

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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

May 10, 2022 • 4 mins read

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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 […]

Find new clients on virtual law platform Lawyer 365

May 5, 2022 • 7 mins read

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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 […]

Apr 27, 2022 • 1 min read

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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

Apr 27, 2022 • 5 mins read

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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 […]

Apr 26, 2022 • 3 mins read

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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, […]