Exeter - Part Time Injury Lawyer - 92

This role is part-time - 3 days a week - for an experienced injury lawyer to manage and develop a very varied caseload of personal injury and clinical negligence claims. . The successful candidate must be able to work unsupervised, and have experience in marketing/ business development in a firm which has its roots in the local community.   Call us in confidence on 01392 366444 or send your CV to tony@dasls.com DASLS recruitment is an agency service. All candidates are treated in strictest confidence. We will only send your details to potential employers once this has been agreed with you....

Speakers Corner - Helping the vulnerable

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Taking Client Care Letters to the next Level by Sponsor Aon

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SPONSOR - Aon - Cyber risks; protecting your firm and your clients

SPONSOR - Aon - Cyber risks; protecting your firm and your clients Cyber risks; protecting your firm and your clients   The media has recognised the newsworthiness of financial crime and, in particular, criminals’ attraction to law firms and their client accounts. As a consequence, TV time and column inches have been dedicated to the plight of solicitors falling victim to scams. Banks are also playing their part through prominent TV advertising campaigns alerting their customers to the risk of financial crime.Insurers welcome the increased awareness generated by this publicity but, unfortunately, ongoing claims notifications demonstrate that the professi...

What is Disaster Recovery Planning? by Sponsor Alchemy Systems

Unusually for IT, the title is actually self-explanatory! To rephrase though, it’s the process a company goes through to get into a position where they can come back from a catastrophe, in a reasonable period of time, having suffered no major data loss as a result of the event.   Disaster Recovery Planning, or DRP, is the first step towards achieving this highly desirable state of system robustness.  The Business Continuity (or BC, for those in the know) refers to a firm’s ability to keep running, to some degree or another, during a disaster.   The Basics – Data Backups   As you might expect, the cornerstone of any sort of DRP w...

Multi-Factor Everything – Why you should be using MFA by Sponsor Alchemy

IT systems in todays every evolving world must deal with pressures and demands from all sides, including the critical need for high end security. Cyber criminals are constantly evolving the ways that they attack unsuspecting users, both at home and in the work place. We often hear clients say that they think their location, type of business, size of company, and numerous other reasons are why they do not need to worry, the statement “who is going to want to come after us” is often bandied around. The answer is cyber criminals. If you have anything online at all, you can be targeted, often the criminals are not in the UK or even Europe. They do not care what...