Vulnerabilities can affect a client’s ability to effectively partake in legal proceedings, recognising signs of vulnerability is key in ensuring appropriate adjustments and protections are in place to act in…
As we enter 2026, we think it’s time for law firms to stop being held back by “trusted” manual processes and start embracing the future of onboarding. And with a…
Data subject access blunder A London law firm has won a High Court injunction forcing a litigant to return thousands of confidential and privileged documents that were mistakenly disclosed following…
‘Dishonest and discreditable’ An aspiring barrister has been disbarred after submitting another student’s dissertation as his own. Arbab Khalil, an unregistered barrister, was found to have engaged in conduct that…
A threat actor likely aligned with China has been observed targeting critical infrastructure sectors in North America since at least last year. Cisco Talos, which is tracking the activity under…
Economic pressures, AI-driven job displacement, and relentless organizational churn are driving insider risk to its highest level in years. Workforce instability erodes loyalty and heightens grievances. The accelerating deployment of…
Cisco on Thursday released security updates for a maximum-severity security flaw impacting Cisco AsyncOS Software for Cisco Secure Email Gateway and Cisco Secure Email and Web Manager, nearly a month…
AI copilots are incredibly intelligent and useful — but they can also be naive, gullible, and even dumb at times. A new one-click attack flow discovered by Varonis Threat Labs…
Palo Alto Networks has issued patches for its PAN-OS firewall platform after a researcher uncovered a high-severity vulnerability which could be exploited by attackers to cause a denial-of-service (DoS). The…
As I prepare to hand over the mantle of chair of The Solicitor’s Charity next month, it doesn’t feel like an end. Instead, it feels like a wonderful journey. The…
An established estate planning firm has entered regulation by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) and bought a family law practice to expand the services it offers. W&P Legal, based in…
A judge has rejected a Mazur-inspired attempt to throw out charges against a serial rail fare dodger on the basis that they were brought by lay prosecutors for the train…
A business law firm is offering SMEs contract reviews conducted entirely by artificial intelligence, costing just £17.50 for simple agreements. The post Law firm offers SMEs £17.50 AI contract reviews…
A solicitor has been fined £7,500 for failing to carry out source of funds checks and keep lenders properly updated about where purchase money was coming from. The post Tribunal…
An AWS misconfiguration in its code building service could have led to a massive number of compromised key AWS GitHub code repositories and applications, say researchers at Wiz who discovered…