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There may be trouble ahead, not least with IT security, business uncertainty, the pandemic and Brexit
Risk & compliance: Frank Maher provides expert analysis on the challenges ahead
More than half of legal and compliance leaders are concerned about cybersecurity risks emerging during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a survey by global IT specialists Gartner

​Frank Maher shares some predictions for law firm risk

Financial crime dubbed ‘pernicious, pervasive & present’

Will Brexit bring new growth to the Irish legal sector , asks Tina Shah

Cyber-based crime has different motivators, different methodologies, and different targets, but most cyber criminals are financially motivated fraudsters who use the Internet to access data and facilitate their main objective: to make a profit.

Kaley Crossthwaite advises how best to protect your firm against the threat of money laundering...& visits from the regulator

Was Balva an accident waiting to happen, asks Frank Maher

About 1,000 law firms did not have compliance officers in place on 1 January.

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

Clarke Willmott—Matthew Roach

Clarke Willmott—Matthew Roach

Partner joins commercial property team in Taunton office

Farrer & Co—Richard Lane

Farrer & Co—Richard Lane

Londstanding London firm appoints new senior partner

Bird & Bird—Sue McLean

Bird & Bird—Sue McLean

Commercial team in London welcomes technology specialist as partner

NEWS
What safeguards apply when trust corporations are appointed as deputy by the Court of Protection? 
Disputing parties are expected to take part in alternative dispute resolution (ADR), where this is suitable for their case. At what point, however, does refusing to participate cross the threshold of ‘unreasonable’ and attract adverse costs consequences?
When it comes to free legal advice, demand massively outweighs supply. 'Millions of people are excluded from access to justice as they don’t have anywhere to turn for free advice—or don’t know that they can ask for help,' Bhavini Bhatt, development director at the Access to Justice Foundation, writes in this week's NLJ
When an ex-couple is deciding who gets what in the divorce or civil partnership dissolution, when is it appropriate for a third party to intervene? David Burrows, NLJ columnist and solicitor advocate, considers this thorny issue in this week’s NLJ
NLJ's latest Charities Appeals Supplement has been published in this week’s issue
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