Data protection
How to become a professional in GDPR
All solicitors store personal data, their colleagues, their clients, and also other contacts associating with their clients. If someone can be identified from the information you hold on them, it is personal data. Alongside this, data protection is also an important aspect of running a law firm effectively as it gives clients the guarantee that […]
GDPR vs UK GDPR — what’s the difference?
GDPR, the General Data Protection Regulation, was passed in 2018 as new legislation to protect the use of personal data across the EU and European Economic Area (EEA). While the regulation originally applied to the UK, as of the 1st January 2021, the UK officially left the EU after completing the agreed transition period. Since […]
How not to be a stereotypical solicitor when it comes to data protection
According to a recent article in The Lawyer following a cyber attack on a leading city law firm, concerns have mounted that hackers looking to steal sensitive data view law firms as the ‘soft underbelly’. In other words, legal professionals are an easy target. How can this be? Surely the confidential nature of any and […]
