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We should seize the opportunities presented by new models of artificial intelligence to improve the provision of legal advice, says Roger Smith

With cyberattacks presenting a growing threat to UK businesses, Kingsley Hayes offers practical advice to help law firms avoid falling victim to online criminals

“Threat intelligence is at the very core of our MDR service and is what allows us to focus in on the specific tactics, techniques and procedures that are being employed to target our clients’ sectors.” Q&A with David Allan, founder and Managing Director at CYSIAM

Magda Zima & Alice Trotter explore what INTERPOL’s digital metaverse twin means in the rapidly changing virtual landscape

As Red Lion Chambers barrister Jack Talbot writes in this week’s NLJ, ‘fraud is a shapeshifting creature of its time’.

A case seeking to prove software developers owe a fiduciary duty to the owners of digital assets should go to trial, the Court of Appeal has held.

The House of Commons has published a briefing paper, 'Regulation of cryptocurrency', which aims to further government plans to make the UK a hub for fintech and cryptoasset technology.

With the threat of cybercrime growing ever more critical for law firms, an upcoming panel discussion will offer the opportunity to prepare, plan, and practise responses to cyber-attacks.

The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) has published its Risk Outlook report on the risks and opportunities of crypto technologies and other distributed ledger technologies (DLTs) and the impact of these on the legal sector.

Cybercrime crackdown & anti-money laundering action: Frank Maher looks to the year ahead & runs through the key risks for law firms to keep in mind

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Red Lion Chambers—Maurice MacSweeney

Set creates new client and business development role amid growth

Kingsley Napley—Tim Lowles

Sports disputes practice launchedwith partner appointment

mfg Solicitors—Tom Evans

Tax and succession planning offering expands with returning partner

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Who’s on the 2026 silk list?

The rank of King’s Counsel (KC) has been awarded to 96 barristers, and no solicitors, in the latest silk round

NLJ this week: When your brain signs the contract

Neurotechnology is poised to transform contract law—and unsettle it. Writing in NLJ this week, Harry Lambert, barrister at Outer Temple Chambers and founder of the Centre for Neurotechnology & Law, and Dr Michelle Sharpe, barrister at the Victorian Bar, explore how brain–computer interfaces could both prove and undermine consent

NLJ this week: Comparators—how close is close enough?

Comparators remain the fault line of discrimination law. In this week's NLJ, Anjali Malik, partner at Bellevue Law, and Mukhtiar Singh, barrister at Doughty Street Chambers, review a bumper year of appellate guidance clarifying how tribunals should approach ‘actual’ and ‘evidential’ comparators. A new six-stage framework stresses a simple starting point: identify the treatment first

NLJ this week: Domicile—more than where you live

In cross-border divorces, domicile can decide everything. In NLJ this week, Jennifer Headon, legal director and head of international family, Isobel Inkley, solicitor, and Fiona Collins, trainee solicitor, all at Birketts LLP, unpack a Court of Appeal ruling that re-centres nuance in jurisdiction disputes. The court held that once a domicile of choice is established, the burden lies on the party asserting its loss

NLJ this week: Police, contempt and the rule of law

Can a chief constable be held responsible for disobedient officers? Writing in NLJ this week, Neil Parpworth, professor of public law at De Montfort University, examines a Court of Appeal ruling that answers firmly: yes

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Cyber

MOVERS & SHAKERS

Red Lion Chambers—Maurice MacSweeney

Kingsley Napley—Tim Lowles

mfg Solicitors—Tom Evans