Over the past two years, society has leapfrogged into a new digital age. Restrictions, lockdowns, and law practice closures have driven consumers toward online legal platforms and virtual law apps such as Lawyer 365, with demand for digital legal services at record highs.
Client experience, not a phrase thrown around much. In some circles it isn’t used because they don’t know what it means, in other circles they don’t use it because it doesn’t matter to them and to others don’t mention it because they take it as a given that a good client experience must be given.
More than ever before, law firms are striving to increase fees through faster, easier and lower-cost, digital channels. Yet, the current regulatory and cybersecurity landscape creates a layer of complexity.
Remote and automated anti-money laundering checks (AML) and biometric ID verifications (eIDV) become more critical and challenging as legal transactions move online. Identifying and onboarding your clients, checking PEPs and sanctions lists, verifying their addresses,
ID verifications have become paramount to law firm online security, so much so that the governments are cracking down on organisations and conventional processes that fall short in protecting themselves and their clients.
In the legal sector, money laundering is a growing concern for most law firms. Fraudsters continue to take advantage of weak security measures and they continue to slip through the safety net. Creating a continued threat to practices.
Have you heard about adverse media checks? Do you know what they are and why they are so important? Well imagine this. Your reception phone rings, and it is a potential client, they explain they want to buy a property so they can use it as an office,
The coronavirus pandemic has accelerated the need for technology that helps businesses create efficient processes. The legal sector, and specifically the area of conveyancing has been no different.
Anti-money laundering for law firms has always been a concern, what is “enough” information on a client to determine they’re legitimate, and their money is legal? But over the past few years there has been a growing concern within the industry as a whole,