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Benjamin Gray speaks on Criminal Law: “Because the law isn’t always black and white”

28th April 2017
No two days are the same in the sector of criminal law, with each case posing new challenges to the attorney handling the case; criminal law covers everything, from small misdemeanors, to big heinous crimes, fraud and white-collar crime. It is therefore vital that the legal help you seek is the right help for you, […]
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An Opportunity Rich Horizon – How AI Could Shape the Exponential Future of Law Firms

28th April 2017
Article written by Rohit Talwar, CEO and Alexandra Whittington, Senior Foresight Researcher at Fast Future Publishing. AI and the New Business Agenda As futurists, we focus on helping leaders to drive exponential growth by anticipating and exploiting the forces, ideas and opportunities shaping the future. Exponential growth is now a viable goal - across every […]
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Making Decisions when Incapable: Court of Protection

31st March 2017
Samantha Hamilton is a Solicitor and Head of the Private Client Department at Mullis & Peake LLP; she is also on the Office of the Public Guardian’s Panel Deputy list. This means that where there is no other suitable person to be appointed as, the Deputy the Court of Protection can appoint one of the […]
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Is it Time for Law Firms to Remodel?

28th March 2017
Legal services contributed £20.3 billion to the UK economy last year. The biggest consumers of legal services are the financial, insurance and pensions sector (17%) followed by construction, IT services, and trade. Of the small business sector, 38% of services consumed relate to trading, compromising of tax, employment and intellectual property. With the rising number […]
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AI in Business: It starts with the basics

28th March 2017
We encounter stories and predictions about how artificial intelligence (AI) will fundamentally change a variety of industries on an almost day-to-day basis. In fact, it has become such an important topic that late last year the Council for Society and Technology wrote a letter to the Prime Minister advising how the UK could take advantage […]
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Hitting the Right Note with SoundCloud

28th March 2017
SoundCloud recently announced they appointed Merritt Farren as its new General Counsel. As General Counsel, Farren is responsible for shaping and defining SoundCloud’s legal affairs and public policy strategy, in addition to leading its team of legal experts across the areas of data protection and privacy, commercial contracts, music rights, copyright issues and corporate matters. […]
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Family Law: Finance, Children and Divorce

28th February 2017
We speak with Claire Reid from Slater and Gordon who is an attentive, yet assertive family lawyer. She reveals how businesses and assets can affect the divorce process, tips on being the best family lawyer and the importance of ensuring the children in divorce proceedings aren’t left behind.   How have you seen legislation changing […]
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Challenges in the In-House Environment

28th February 2017
We speak with the General Counsel and Director of Risk & Compliance at Hymans Robertson LLP: Natalie Wallace. She discusses how the legal, regulatory, political and technology landscapes in which the firm and its clients operate continue to change. But rather than see this as a challenge, Natalie sees this in a positive light – […]
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MVF - General Counsel

28th February 2017
We have the pleasure of speaking with the General Counsel of MVF, the customer generation specialists who find large volumes of customers for some of the world's biggest brands, including Salesforce and WorldPay. Currently Tom Worner’s role is widely diverse; a speciality of his is M&A and he has made the acquisition process easy and […]
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Robots and AI: Giving Robots 'Personhood' Status’

27th February 2017
Recent advancements in technology have been significant and brought a wealth of benefits to society. Leading the way in innovative developments is artificial intelligence (AI), which is rapidly becoming embedded in day-to-day lives – take Siri and Cortana who live in our back pockets, assisting with directions, restaurant choices and shopping.  Whilst innovation continues to […]
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