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2023: Challenges & risks ahead

27 January 2023 / Frank Maher
Issue: 8010 / Categories: Opinion , Risk management , Legal services , Cyber , Fraud
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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

Many of the common challenges for law firms in 2023 remain similar to those seen in previous years, but two key areas of potential risk—cybercrime and money laundering—are becoming increasingly more significant as we look to the months ahead.

Eyes on cyber

No firm is too small to be targeted: the client data we hold is valuable, and there is an increased risk of ransomware attacks since the invasion of Ukraine. The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) reported a reduction in client losses from cybercrime at the COLP & COFA conference in November 2022, but that is not a reason for complacency. Numbers of attacks have increased in the business world generally, and Miller Insurance noted in their Review of the 1 October Renewal Season that there has been a number of payment diversion fraud and invoice manipulation losses. Meanwhile Howden Insurance Brokers’

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

DWF—19 appointments

DWF—19 appointments

Belfast team bolstered by three senior hires and 16 further appointments

Cadwalader—Andro Atlaga

Cadwalader—Andro Atlaga

Firm strengthens leveraged finance team with London partner hire

Knights—Ella Dodgson & Rebecca Laffan

Knights—Ella Dodgson & Rebecca Laffan

Double hire marks launch of family team in Leeds

NEWS
Charlie Mercer and Astrid Gillam of Stewarts crunch the numbers on civil fraud claims in the English courts, in this week's NLJ. New data shows civil fraud claims rising steadily since 2014, with the King’s Bench Division overtaking the Commercial Court as the forum of choice for lower-value disputes
Bea Rossetto of the National Pro Bono Centre makes the case for ‘General Practice Pro Bono’—using core legal skills to deliver life-changing support, without the need for niche expertise—in this week's NLJ
The Supreme Court issued a landmark judgment in July that overturned the convictions of Tom Hayes and Carlo Palombo, once poster boys of the Libor and Euribor scandal. In NLJ this week, Neil Swift of Peters & Peters considers what the ruling means for financial law enforcement
Small law firms want to embrace technology but feel lost in a maze of jargon, costs and compliance fears, writes Aisling O’Connell of the Solicitors Regulation Authority in this week's NLJ
Charles Pigott of Mills & Reeve reports on Haynes v Thomson, the first judicial application of the Supreme Court’s For Women Scotland ruling in a discrimination claim, in this week's NLJ
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