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Law firms and chambers working together to improve cybersecurity

With the Bar Council, we've updated our cybersecurity questionnaire designed to help law firms better assess the cybersecurity arrangements of the chambers and barristers they...

Law Commission consultation on digital assets as personal property – Law Society response

We've responded to the Law Commission's consultation on digital assets as personal property.

Call for evidence response: the lawful basis for web scraping to train generative AI models

We have responded to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) call for evidence for its consultation into web scraping as part of their consultation series on...

Solicitor fined for failing to spot Friday afternoon cyber fraud

A solicitor was fined by the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal (SDT) for inappropriate handling of a fraudulent payment as part of a conveyancing cyber scam.

Slow response to a scam: avoiding a complaint to the Legal Ombudsman

Cybercrime is on the increase. Jason Chapman and Anjali Mouelhi explore a real case where the victim of a scam complained to the Legal Ombudsman...

How in-house lawyers can (and should) use AI and ChatGPT

In-house teams need to get on board with generative AI: that's the message from Lizzy Lim, legal counsel at Trustpilot. She shares how ChatGPT and...

Overheard on a train: how I could have ransomed a law firm (but didn’t)

For many of us, working on the go is a necessity. But, when Graham Murphy found himself sat next to an indiscrete lawyer on a...

The rise and rise of the in-house lawyer

The number of practising in-house lawyers is growing in the UK and across the world. Sofia Gohir explains some of the factors contributing to this,...

Ransomware – the alarming cybercrime trend of 2020

Lindsay Hill, CEO at Mitigo, discusses the alarming trend of ransomware attacks on law firms that has continued throughout the pandemic.

Nine impacts of a cyber attack on a law firm

Lindsay Hill lists nine ways in which a cyber attack can seriously disrupt your law firm, and why you shouldn’t solely rely on cyber insurance...

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