Risk & Compliance

Articles

CMC hit with record £850,000 fine for 'flagrant breach' of regulation

Millions of 'deliberate' nuisance calls results in almost 2,000 complaints to Ofcom

Let's define the risk universe for professional services firms

By Louise Fleming, Partner, Aretai Consulting

Merging clients: How merging law firms can avoid losing clients

Merging law firms are at risk of losing more than a fifth of their clients. Louise Fleming and Steve Lee speak with law firm leaders about how they keep clients at the centre of merger processes

Cybercrime targets: The biggest cybersecurity weaknesses in law firms

Many UK law firms are failing to tackle their greatest risks to cybercrime, a Managing Partner survey has found. Manju Manglani reveals the biggest cybersecurity weaknesses

Lived values: How to create an ethical high-performance culture

Christopher Smith considers what lessons law firms can learn from the financial services sector on creating an ethical high-performance culture

New dynamics: How changes to in-house legal practice will affect law firms

Tracey Calvert considers the changing dynamics of in-house legal practice and how corporate counsel and law firms will work together in future

What we gained from centralising our law firm's compliance function

By Kim Carr, Managing Partner, FBC Manby Bowdler

Why Cameron didn't legally react to 'piggate'

Following David Cameron's  claim that he was 'too busy running the country' to bring legal proceedings in respect of Lord Ashcroft's allegations that he once inserted 'a private party of his anatomy' into a dead pig's mouth, when should an individual issue defamation proceedings?