Risk & Compliance

Articles

24 Nov 2014

Member departures: Tackling repudiatory breaches and competing businesses

Is there an amicable way for LLPs and their members to part ways? Paul Nicholls QC, Tim Spillane and Peter Nicholson consider members' rights and duties

21 Nov 2014

Articulate your risk appetite to drive business growth

By Louise Fleming, Executive Director, Kingsmead Square

21 Nov 2014

Fraud fingerprints: The warning signs of fraud and money laundering

Kevin Shergold explores the trends and warning signs of fraud and money laundering in law firms and client organisations

19 Nov 2014

Data mine: Big data and the erosion of privacy

Big data analytics will help law firms to innovate in client services but will also lead to greater erosion of the right to privacy, warns Eric Hunter

17 Nov 2014

Take the pain out of complaints

Barbara Spoor provides a guide to a time-saving, cost-effective complaints management procedure

10 Nov 2014

Overstepping the mark

Solicitors should proceed with care when considering whether to embark on proceedings involving allegations of fraud, warns Eleanor Kilner

10 Nov 2014

Raising the bar for AML and KYC due diligence

The newly appointed attorney general, Jeremy Wight, confirmed at the recent Cambridge Symposium on economic crime that new proposals were being assessed to widen criminal liability for businesses.

24 Oct 2014

Risk maturity: Adapting risk management systems to new threats

Peter Bennett reveals how he is evolving the risk management system which saved his firm £3m in PII premiums