In our series of short blogs looking at some of the many queries received from our clients through our Ask Teal service, next we consider whether criminals may use the Coronavirus situation to their advantage during this period.Question: Do you think that the “baddies” may try to use the Coronavirus…
Coronavirus – Practical help for law firms. Dealing with clients
Continuing our series of blogs looking at some of the many queries received from our clients through our Ask Teal service, we consider how to deal with clients who, whilst wanting their matter to progress as quickly as possible, drag their feet in providing information requested from them.Question: Any tips…
Coronavirus – Practical help for law firms. Dealing with the absence of key Compliance Officers
Continuing our series of blogs looking at some of the many queries received from our clients through our Ask Teal service, here we consider the Solicitor’s Regulatory Authority (SRA) likely approach to absences of key compliance staff.Question: Will the SRA look at derogations on the restriction on outsourcing key compliance…
Coronavirus – Practical help for law firms. Issues with compliance during Coronavirus and the SRA’s likely approach
Continuing our series of blogs looking at some of the many queries received from our clients through our Ask Teal service, this blog considers the Solicitor’s Regulatory Authority (SRA)’s likely approach during this period.Question: Will the SRA be more lenient with us if we are non-compliant during this period?As at…
Coronavirus – Practical help for law firms. Dealing with cheques received in the post
In our next blog looking at some of the many queries received from our clients through our Ask Teal service, we consider how to deal with client money received in the post during a lockdown period. Question: How do we deal with depositing cheques received in the post during this…
How to keep your clients safe – tmgroup Webinar
Watch our Amy Bell discuss how to keep your clients safe:…
Coronavirus – Practical help for law firms. Dealing with Post
We’ve received lots of queries from our clients through our Ask Teal Service.In this blog we look at how to deal with post coming into and out of the business (we can’t say “office”, as this is not now necessarily the case). Question: What do I do about post coming…
Merging Under Pressure and Compliance Due Diligence
Sadly, in these challenging times there are firms that, for one reason or another, are finding themselves in unexpected commercial difficulties that make their longer term viability questionable. Radical reconstruction by consolidation through merger may be the only alternative to closing doors for good, with all the unsavoury knock-on consequences…
GDPR in COVID-19 times
When the new and more stringent rules on data protection came through in the form of GDPR, one of the most common gripes among firms was the amount of time it was going to soak up in a world that was already busy enough keeping a firm running profitably.The gripe…
COVID-19 Infected Premises and BCP’s
So you discover that a member of your staff who is now working from home – or a client, or a contractor who serviced the printers or mended a leaking loo, or the postman, or a courier who has had cause to come to the office – has tested positive…