Access Legal webinars on demand for law firms

As technology reshapes industries, the legal profession stands on the edge of a transformative change. Join us for an insightful exploration into the world of digital transformation tailored specifically for law firms.

Join us for our exclusive webinar that unravels the journey to success after investing in Access Legal’s cutting-edge case management solution.

Join our panel of industry experts as they share invaluable strategies and best practices for effectively managing and mitigating cyber incidents.

Join us for an exclusive webinar where we unveil Access Legal Proclaim v4, our most significant update yet! Discover the latest features enhancing functionality, performance, and flexibility.

Join us for this ground-breaking webinar and transform your legal practice with the power of data. Discover how data-driven strategies can streamline your case management, improve decision making and enhance client service.

This webinar is tailored to equip small to medium-sized law firms like you with the knowledge and strategies needed to stay ahead in an ever-evolving legal environment.

Join our free and exclusive webinar “Revolutionise efficiency and remain competitive” This power-packed session will provide valuable insights and practical strategies to transform your legal case management processes, allowing your firm to operate at peak efficiency. 

In this session, we reflected on the trends seen in the Wills and Probate area of the sector, consider what they mean for the law firms moving forward and what role technology will play. 88% of attendees surveyed found the session to be very useful.

In this webinar, we reflect on the trends seen in the Family Law area of the sector, consider what they mean for the law firms moving forward and what role technology will plays including how we have been helping our customers.

In this webinar, we reflect on the trends seen in the Wills and Probate area of the sector, consider what they mean for the law firms moving forward and what role technology will play.

Watch this opening session to hear Access Legal's Managing Director, Doug Sawers, and Head of Product Marketing, Marcus Dacombe, cover our journey up to now, our vision moving forward and our purpose. Followed by, Head of Product, Lauren Colbeck, who discusses the product strategy and exciting developments on the roadmap and, finally, Bishu Solomon-Girma, Head of Customer Success, will provide an update of the customer success model and how we deliver our services.

In this panel discussion, industry experts from Shakespeare Martineau, Harrington Starr and Access Legal, discuss the challenge of attracting and retaining talent in the new hybrid working world and what role technology plays. They will then go on to discuss how building a positive culture has become paramount for law firms and how this helps to retain staff and increase productivity.

Access Legal Fusion, formerly LawFusion, expert Callum Mennel takes you through how to get the most out of the system and top tips.

Access Legal Case Management expert, Paul Wynn, takes you through how to get the most out of the system and top tips.

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Don't miss this opportunity to gain actionable insights to set your firm up for success in 2024.

Hosted by the renowned Legal IT Specialist, Harry Fallows, this session will delve into crucial topics for ensuring SRA compliance and boosting productivity in 2024.

Join industry experts James Hood, IT Director at LCF Law, Kirsty Stridfeldt from Access Managed Services, and Legal IT Specialists Chris Morris and Jon Cuthbert for our first Legal IT Clinic. Gain tailored guidance on your technology concerns and insights to enhance your firm's IT strategy.

The agenda is set based on your feedback, addressing key topics such as cyber security, Microsoft 365 security, data backup, and more. 

Join our 30-minute webinar, where Sarah Armstrong-Smith, Microsoft's Chief Security Advisor, will provide invaluable insights into how the Zero Trust model can safeguard your law firm.

Discover essential insights on budgeting and advocating for cybersecurity investment. Key takeaways include comprehending cyber threats, quantifying risk, aligning risk tolerance, and benchmarking against industry peers.

Discover real-world examples of successful AI integration in law firms and how it impacted their bottom line. 

Walk away with actionable takeaways and best practices that you can immediately implement in your legal practice.

Get expert tips for enhancing security in your law firm, whilst discovering the notable changes in the IT landscape and their impact on the legal sector. With cyber-crime targeting law firms on the rise, this webinar is a crucial opportunity to learn about safeguarding your firm against cyber threats. Gain insights on security risks, updates from the SRA and PII, the importance of data backup, and building a cyber security plan.

In today's digital landscape, law firms are prime targets for cybercriminals, given the valuable data and financial resources they handle.

Join us to gain a deeper understanding of the daily cyber threats faced by law professionals, the potential impact of cyberattacks, and essential strategies for safeguarding your firm.

Get insights on cyber risks in the legal field, SRA updates, and a focus on Personally Identifiable Information (PII). Explore IT challenges faced by legal firms in today's fast-paced tech world. This webinar will cover security risks including phishing, insecure home networks, fraud, and ransomware attacks. Harry will examine the impact of remote work on the legal sector and present strategies to mitigate these risks.

Mimecast's State of Email Security Report highlights the alarming rise in email-based threats, such as ransomware and phishing.

With 80% of companies indicating increased email usage and 75% witnessing an increase in email threats, the demand for sophisticated security tools has never been more pronounced. Although some organizations are gravitating towards AI and machine learning, there are also advantages to leveraging native security measures in Office 365 and Google Workspace.

Watch our 30 min webinar where our cloud hosting expert Harry Fallows demonstrates the top 5 security tips for SME's. Harry covers the following and answers a number of cyber security questions from our online audience:

• How data attacks happen and how you lose money
• The importance of data backup
• Building a cyber security plan

Join our 40 min webinar where our cyber security specialist Chris Morris discusses the importance of device and identity security, monitoring, and the use of automated systems for threat detection and prevention. Chris specifically covers:

• What is a modern desktop and why is usage increasing
• How a move to a modern desktop can address security concerns
• What is the Microsoft zero trust model
• Enabling device security and the importance of a strong password

With the rapid adoption of new technologies and the shift towards remote work, it is more important than ever to stay up-to-date on the latest cloud and IT trends.

In this webinar, we are joined by legal cloud and IT expert Chris Morris, who discusses his predictions for the future of legal cloud and IT.

In this on-demand webinar, our in-house legal IT experts, Harry Fallows and Chris Morris, share their interpretations of "The Legal Hybrid Working Report 2023". They'll not only discuss the report's key findings, but also provide practical recommendations to address the significant challenges identified in the report.

Watch this webinar to learn how you can navigate these challenges and maximise the potential of Microsoft Teams in your law firm. Our experts discuss strategies for handling rapid data expansion, ensuring secure access to files, and meeting the 7-year data retention requirement of the SRA.

In this upcoming webinar, we've combined legal technology experts with Stuart Parkington, Principal Systems Engineer at Citrix, to get answers to those very questions and more. We found out:

• What is the current Citrix Roadmap and how is this relevant to the legal industry?
• Is Citrix needed on all cloud platforms?
• What value does Citrix deliver on top of Azure Virtual Desktops? 

In this webinar, we brought together the combined experience of 30 years in legal IT. As we were joined by Dominik Wakelin, former IT Manager at Squire Patton Boggs turned Service Delivery Manager at Oosha, and Kirsty Stridfeldt, fellow Service Delivery Manager at Oosha, to explore how the roles in legal IT have evolved and how leading firms are structuring themselves for success.

In this webinar, Nigel Stott, Consultant at Baskerville Drummond, and Sarah Callan, IT Operations Manager at Hudgell Solicitors explored how you can use Microsoft 365 to secure the hybrid working experience. Specifically, we covered:

• How you can spot threats before they impact your firm
• How you can protect your corporate devices, inside and outside the office
• Protecting sensitive and valuable information stored in the cloud

In this webinar, we’re joined by legal technology experts Harry Fallows, and Chris Morris, Head of Technical Pre-sales, to share their vast experience in the legal IT field as they cover all six of the key pillars and explain their importance.

Covering:

• Monitoring and improving performance
• Finding the right support
• Building and maintaining robust security

In this webinar, we’re joined by legal tech expert, Derek Southall, Founder and CEO of Hyperscale Group, to discuss how he sees legal tech evolving in 2023.

The panel explore:

• The legal tech trends to watch out for in 2023
• Future proofing beyond 2023
• Strategies for improving your front and back-office experience
• The tools and technologies law firms will be adopting in 2023

Achieving this productivity and safety whilst working from any location can be stressful for law firms to achieve internally or with certain types of IT Solutions. However, all of the challenges can be navigated using Virtual Desktop technology instead.

In this webinar with Chris Morris, Head of Technical Pre-sales, discusses:

• What is a Virtual Desktop?
• Do I need a Virtual Desktop?
• Virtual Desktop vs Remote Desktop
• Are Virtual Desktops expensive?

Join this 30 minute session with Microsoft's Chief Security Advisor Sarah Armstrong-Smith and discover how a Zero Trust approach protects your network and data. Sarah demonstates how today's organisations need a security model that more effectively adapts to the complexity of the modern environment, embraces the hybrid workplace, and protects people, devices, apps, and data wherever they’re located.

Covering:

• The 6 pillars behind Microsoft’s Zero Trust methodology
• Considerations when implementing a data-centric zero trust mode

The adoption of Microsoft 365 tools - including collaboration apps such as Teams has been critical over the past 2 years and has plays a vital role in supporting firms remote working plans. In this webinar, Nigel Stott, Consultant at Baskerville Drummond, and Sarah Callan, IT Operations Manager at Hudgell Solicitors explore how you can use Microsoft 365 to secure the hybrid working experience.

Specifically, they cover:

• How you can spot threats before they impact your firm
• How you can protect your corporate devices, inside and outside the office
• Protecting sensitive and valuable information stored in the cloud

Join this 45 webinar, and discover the practical steps law firms must take to stay secure using Microsoft 365. Chris Morris, Head of Pre-sales at Oosha, has been guiding businesses through this framework that anyone can follow.

He specifically breaks down the framework into three steps:

• Improved security posture
• Identity protection
• Identity governance

In this webinar, Oosha MD Matt Newton is joined by Joanna Kingston-Davies, Group COO at The MAPD Group and legal IT strategist, Derek Southall to take an exclusive look athow law firms are preparing for the return to work.

We look at the trends and factors affecting the sector, the challenges these are creating and the approaches firms can take to meet new demands whilst also preparing for the future.

Lauren Colbeck discusses data use in law firms with Joanna Kingston-Davies of MAPD Group and Nigel Stott of Baskerville Drummond.

See how you can manage your team while working working remotely, keeping track of workloads and performance.

See our panel of experts discuss the impact of cybercrime on law firms and how firms can protect themselves.

Mike Connelly, Commercial Director and Legal Bricks Founder, reviews the conveyancing journey and where firms have the opportunity to automate processes and digitise the journey, improving the experience for the client and conveyancer.

A thought-provoking session on using technology to bring together all your people, data and processes into a single view, creating clarity throughout your firm. Understand what is fast becoming the new norm when it comes to the future of law firms; a paper-light results-focused way of working that provides efficiency and simplicity whilst removing ambiguity across key business activities.

Access Workspace for Legal

The role of IT departments is not only to keep the lights on but to deliver value to users within a law firm, in much the same way as fee-earners do for their clients. Clearly, firms that don’t embrace technology will struggle to remain competitive today, but of course, each one has its own goals, priorities, budgets and technical capabilities. Watch this session with David Jackson, Chief Technology Officer at Stepien Lake to find out how they designed their cloud strategy and for top tips on designing yours.

Cloud strategies for law firms

Digital transformation has been at the core of our IT and business strategies for a number of years - but technology and data are the enablers of change but not in themselves the objective. Digital transformation is about culture and mindset too. Watch this session with Sarah Blair, IT Director at Thorntons Law to find out how she's put people at the centre of digital transformation.

Cloud strategies for law firms

Watch this session where our product specialists will share with you the new exciting functionality available through our cloud-based Proclaim software. Discover the power of our Access Workspace for Legal, as well as the benefits of securely hosting your case management system in the cloud. Viewers will also discover how to get answers and reach their business goals faster with our Premier Customer Success Plans which are included when you upgrade to Proclaim in the cloud.

• Time: 12:30 PM
• Day: Monday 20^th March 2023
• Presenters: Ryan Sparrow and Rhiannon Davies

In this webinar, Rhiannon Davies, Senior Risk and Compliance Associate at Access Legal will be discussing some of the issues and themes regularly found when helping clients to gain CQS accreditation.

Rhiannon and our team of risk and compliance professionals have been helping conveyancing firms to gain CQS accreditation and reaccreditation for a number of years and have drawn on that experience to provide you with practical guidance on what potential issues you may face when it comes to CQS accreditation.

• Time: 12:30 PM
• Day: Tuesday 21^st March 2023
• Presenters: Chris Morris and Harry Fallows

Conveyancers handle millions of pounds of client money each year. As such, they are a major target for cyber criminals, who can leverage cyber attacks to defraud your unsuspecting clients into transferring thousands of pounds into a criminal’s bank account, hold your data to ransom, or even gain access to important confidential data.

There are a number of ways you can defend your law firm against cyber-attacks, including having the right training and having a robust infrastructure that protects you against cyber-attacks. In this webinar, Chris Morris and Harry Fallows will talk you through some of the ways you can protect your firm against criminals looking to take advantage of you.

• Time: 12:30 PM
• Day: Wednesday 22^nd March 2023
• Presenters: Ryan Sparrow and Brian Rogers

Earlier this year, small Oxfordshire-based firm, Ferguson Bracknell were fined £20,000 for a number of Anti-Money Laundering failings. Although the SRA accepted that there was no harm done to any clients, there was a risk that money laundering could have taken place due to the failings and so the firm received the record fine.

In this webinar, Brian Rogers looks at what the firm did wrong and what they should have done, giving you practical advice on what you need to have in place to make sure that the next time the SRA exercise their new powers, you aren’t on the end of it.

• Time: 12:30 PM
• Day: Thursday 23^rd March 2023
• Presenters: Ryan Sparrow and Laura Wilkes

With the Council for Licensed Conveyancers vying for law firms to make the decision to be regulated by the CLC, many firms may be wondering ‘what’s the difference?’

And so, in this webinar, Laura Wilkes, one of our Risk and Compliance Associates who has years of experienced helping both SRA and CLC regulated conveyancing firms with compliance will talk through the differences between the two and in what circumstances would one be more favourable than the other.

• Time: 2:00 PM
• Day: Thursday 23^rd March 2023
• Presenters: Toby Sewell and Richard Hinton

In this webinar, Richard Hinton from Pitsford Consulting will discuss our findings from a review of 2022 UK conveyancing transaction data. Richard will look at trends in the sector, which firms have performed best in 2022 and where conveyancers might find opportunities in the market throughout 2023.

Richard Hinton, Pitsford Consulting, provides data insight on the conveyancing market from the last 2 years, including market share, transactions, AP1 registration time and more before being joined by Rob Hailstone, Bold Legal Group, and Mike Connelly, Legal Bricks, to discuss what's coming in the market this year and beyond.

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Wayne McGhan, National Business Manager, delivers a best practice session showing the features and benefits of LB Law, our 60 second conveyancing quotation tool, and LB Connect, our multifaceted web-based client portal that works across mobile, tablet and PC.

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Hear how Access Legal can help conveyancing firms to modernise their practice to gain greater efficiencies, improve staff morale and boost profitability.

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Mike Connelly, Commercial Director and Legal Bricks Founder, reviews the conveyancing journey and where firms have the opportunity to automate processes and digitise the journey, improving the experience for the client and conveyancer.

This webinar hosted by Brian Rogers covers the latest legal compliance news for March 2023, including:

• LeO Scheme Rule changes (coming in on 1 April 2023)
• FATF Update
• Data Privacy
• Sanctions Update
• SRA view on ID documents
• Crypto fee payments

Brian Rogers, Regulatory Director at Access Legal, is joined by Gareth Milner, Managing Director at JM Glendinning Professional Risks, to discuss current market conditions for law firms Professional Indemnity Insurance (PII), and key areas that firms need to consider ahead of their renewals.

Brian Rogers, Access Legal Regulatory Director,  and Beth Mayman, Head of Risk & Compliance Consultancy, discuss what upcoming regulations law firms need to be aware of.

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Watch this session where Brian Rogers, Prof Stephen Mayson, Prof Chris Bones - CILEX and Iain Miller - Partner at Kingsley Napley | Independent Law Firm Of The Year as they cover the topics surrounding the future of legal regulation.

Are you up-to-date with this year's Conveyancing Quality Scheme? Watch our free session to hear how CQS is changing this year. Access Legal Regulatory Director, Brian Rogers. Will be joined by Tom Horrocks, Managing Director at Boiled Frog Ltd, discuss what conveyancers need to know to remain compliant with CQS Protocols.

Conveyancing Quality Scheme (CQS) training

How Access Legal helps to make compliance simple for all law firms. From training to managing risk and everything in between, Access Legal can help.

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Beth Mayman was joined by industry expert, Emma Lilley - Sole Legal Counsel & Founder of In-house Potter, to discuss key issues in the world of legal compliance.

See what you need to do to meet SRA Price Transparency Rules.

Brian Rogers discusses the SRA Diversity Survey, SRA enforcement of AML breaches, settling LeO Complaints, comparison websites, scam alerts and more.

Brian Rogers discusses the UK National Strategic Assessment of Serious & Organised Crime, cryptocurrencies, professional indemnity insurance renewals, whether we’re heading for another property crash, comparison websites and more.

Catch up with the latest legal compliance news for May 21 including the SRA Standards and Regulations Review, SRA Diversity Survey and competency.

Catch up with the latest legal compliance news for April 21 including the SRA thematic review into the roles of the MLRO and MLCO, plagiarism of other firms' content and the impact of comparison sites on the legal sector.

Catch up with the latest legal compliance news for March 21 including the SRA thematic review Anti-Money Laundering, competence and transparency.

Brian Rogers and Bill Jones discuss preparing for an SRA AML audit, how to deals with SARs, the three money laundering offences you could commit and how to avoid tipping off.

See Brian Rogers and Financial Crime Expert, Bill Jones, discuss Anti-Money Laundering in law firms and what firms should do to protect themselves.

See what firms should do to undertake client due diligence and meet AML obligations while working from home.