According to The National Wills Report 2025, half of UK adults haven’t told anyone where their will is stored – or even if one exists. The post Poole Alcock: Using…
Professional negligence claims have traditionally centred on established professions such as solicitors, accountants and architects. However, an increasing number of disputes now involve advisers whose roles sit alongside or support…
CISOs acknowledge that no organization is completely safe, but many also admit their security measures aren’t where they’d like them to be. One-third of CISOs surveyed for Proofpoint’s 2025 Voice…
Centralise operations Clyde & Co has entered into consultation with support staff over potential job losses as the firm moves to centralise its operations. The firm is proposing to shift…
Follows independent reviewer’s recommendation A spell-check tool is to be trialled in SQE2 written assessments for the first time, the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) has announced. The tool, which will…
The top legal affairs news stories from this morning and the weekend Top City law firm ends ‘bring your dog to work’ perk (£) Lord Hermer: ‘No Doubt’ Referring Rape…
The CSO30 ASEAN & Hong Kong Awards return in 2026, as an important moment to recognise the cybersecurity leaders and teams who are making resilience measurable across the region. In…
The Solicitors Regulation Authority is to appeal the decision to give only a suspended suspension to a law firm owner who bullied and harassed five junior members of staff. The…
There are good levels of job satisfaction across the conveyancing and probate communities regulated by the Council for Licensed Conveyancers – but workloads are high. The post CLC practices offer…
A solicitor who fabricated and backdated a disclosure letter to make it appear that he had complied with a court deadline has been struck off. The post Solicitor fabricated disclosure…
Law firms’ rush to embrace both mergers and AI risks making staff retention harder if they ignore “the psychological and cultural issues driving talent turnover”, a leading psychologist has warned.…
AI creates an obvious professional negligence risk. Using it carelessly may fall below the standard of reasonable skill and care. As may failing to use it, in certain circumstances. The…
Dutch authorities have announced the takedown of a botnet that enslaved millions of infected devices, including computers, tablets, smartphones, and IoT devices, to carry out malicious attacks. The bot network,…
Palo Alto Networks has warned that a recently disclosed medium-severity security flaw impacting PAN-OS and Prisma Access has come under active exploitation in the wild. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-0257…
Researchers have uncovered a previously undocumented Russian group that makes extensive use of large language models (LLMs) in its attacks against private, government, and military organizations in Ukraine. It uses…