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Clerksroom provides 24/7 availability to a nationwide network of 200 barristers, 500+ independent mediators and 33 clerks, all of whom are genuinely committed to providing a best practice client experience.

So next time you need to instruct counsel, get an opinion or need a mediator, please get in touch. 

We’re here, and ready to help. 

LawCare is an independent charity offering emotional support, information and training to the legal community in the UK, Channel Islands and Isle of Man. We work to promote good mental health and wellbeing in legal workplaces and drive change in education, training and practice.

Our support service offers a safe place to talk without judgement. We’re here to help, with helpline calls, emails and webchats answered in confidence by trained staff and volunteers who have first-hand experience of working in the law. We also have a network of peer supporters.

If you need to talk call our free, independent and confidential helpline on 0800 279 6888, email support@lawcare.org.uk or visit www.lawcare.org.uk

The Access to Justice Foundation is a national charity that raises funds and distributes them strategically to those advice agencies that can make the most difference to the lives of vulnerable people. We fund Law Centres, local citizen's advice, independent advice agencies, pro bono projects and national charities, which help to facilitate access to justice.

If you would like to help us raise funds or get involved in one of our access to justice projects then please get in touch.

If you need to talk call on 020 7092 3973, email enquiries@atjf.org.uk or visit https://www.atjf.org.uk/

Are you looking to buy or sell a legal/ solicitors practice?

Churchill Mergers can help you find the right seller or buyer at the right price.

Register today on our website www.churchill-legal-mergers.co.uk or email us at info@churchill-legal-mergers.co.uk and one of our M&A specialists will call you to discuss your acquisition or exit plans.

Churchill Legal Mergers is part of the Churchill Mergers group. We offer M&A services for different sectors including Healthcare, Technology, Legal, IFA, Accounting, Franchise, and a general category for all businesses.

Visit our website https://www.churchill-mergers.co.uk/our_group or call us on 03300884131.

Finding the right expert can make or break a matter. LexisNexis Context Expert Analytics is the UK’s largest AI‐driven database of experts.

Don’t just find experts. Find experts who win. Clever AI shows you at a glance which expert makes the biggest impact. Summarising judge commentary with sentiment analysis and case results allows you to make a data‐based decision on who to shortlist.

Click here to request a quote.

Hanscomb Intercontinental brings together experts that work across the global onshore and offshore construction, engineering and shipbuilding industries. Our experts span the disciplines of accounting, law, architecture, construction, surveying, ship building and engineering and many are dual qualified holding a professional qualification and legal training. We undertake both expert advisory as well expert witness work and our experts are practising experts as opposed to testifying experts; our experts continue to work in their profession bringing the latest industry knowledge and best practice expertise to apply in their expert work.

Our team comprise expert witnesses with experience of being cross examined in litigation, arbitration, adjudication and before Dispute Boards. Disputes requiring technical expertise often involve an elaborate technical matrix of fact and opinion. Complex investigations, interrogation and interpretation of the cause and impact of various competing causes are required. We will deliver concise reports that explain complex technical interactions in a clear and unambiguous manner.

Our experts comply with a set of strict criteria:

• A minimum of 25 years’ industry experience;
• They have cross examination experience;
• They have been trained in the expert’s duties in both Litigation and Arbitration and hold third party expert witness accreditation.

Dr Monaci worked as a Clinical Psychologist / Clinical Neuropsychologist in the NHS since 2005. She covered the position of Consultant Clinical Neuropsychologist for the last 6 years of NHS employment. She conducts neuropsychological assessments (including cognitive and emotional functioning) through clinical interview, behavioural observations, psychometric testing and review of records. She also offers neuropsychological rehabilitation services (including cognitive strategies and CBT) to support recovery from acquired brain injuries.

Expert Witness Services

Personal injury (acquired brain injury, road traffic accident, cognitive and intellectual functioning) Medical Negligence (acquired brain injury, cognitive and everyday functioning) Criminal and Family cases (assessment of cognitive and everyday functioning in case of known or suspected brain injury/dysfunction) Mental capacity assessments.

Registration as an Expert Witness

Dr Monaci has been an independent Expert Witness since 2009. She receives instructions from claimants (60%) and defendants (40%).

To contact email on linda@monaciconsultancy.com or visit http://www.monaciconsultancy.com/

Our independent timber consultancy practice has been helping the timber, construction and legal sectors with all that’s best in wood knowledge for over a quarter of a century.

Our consultants are highly experienced in all aspects of problem investigation, report preparation and Expert Witness work (including Legal Aid); and have previously given evidence at the Old Bailey and in the Technology & Construction Court.

We comply with Civil Procedure Rules in respect of Single Joint Expert instructions.

TFT Woodexperts provide the following services to members of the legal profession, and to Trading Standards officers in case of dispute or poor quality :

• Site visits & investigations
• Desktop analysis & review of documents
• Specialist reports
• Species identification
• Structural surveys

OurFamilyWizard is a secure communication platform that supports divorced or separated parents in managing the daily responsibilities of raising children in separate homes. Specialised features help co-parents organise routines, share files and photos, track expenses, document contact exchanges, send messages, and more—all while thoroughly documenting their activity. These tools are built to empower co-parents to mitigate issues on their own without returning to court.

Working with clients on OurFamilyWizard, family law and mental health practitioners can assist families to move beyond conflict and co-parent with confidence. Solicitors and other legal practitioners use OurFamilyWizard to monitor client activity and prepare documentation for court purposes as needed.

OurFamilyWizard is frequently included in parenting agreements and has been ordered by Judges across the United Kingdom. Since 2001, over one million parents and family law practitioners worldwide have trusted OurFamilyWizard to help navigate the challenges of co-parenting.

OurFamilyWizard is a much-needed platform to allow parents and carers to communicate effectively for the benefit of their children. It allows key information regarding the children to be logged and is easy to find and to navigate.

Based in Manchester, Eventum Legal are criminal law practitioners supporting the accused and defending false sexual offence allegations and offences arising from domestic violence.
We are one of few law firms who specialise in representing individuals throughout England and Wales accused of serious sexual offences including false rape allegations, indecent image offences, sexual assault, and alleged offences against children such as sexual communications with a child and grooming offences.

We are great believers in pre charge representation and encourage those under investigation to seek legal representation at the earliest opportunity. We apply a no stone unturned approach when defending our clients and believe that work can be done before court proceedings to stop an allegation in its tracks.

Our services extend to supporting clients through disciplinary proceedings arising as a result of criminal proceedings, and our dedicated youth lawyers represent and support children accused of sexual offences and students who face misconduct proceedings within their educational setting as a result.

Our team are members of the Youth Justice Legal Centre, a centre of excellence for youth practitioners, we are dedicated to continuously training our staff to provide the best legal services and advice to our clients.

With over 15 years of experience, we have built relationships with some of the country's leading barristers and forensic experts, we can bring a highly knowledgeable and dedicated team together to ensure your case is robustly defended and your reputation is protected.

InfoTrack is the home of digital conveyancing. A powerful suite of solutions from client onboarding and searches to post-completion and e-signature services, we digitise the entire conveyancing process to assure compliance and productivity. Our award-winning solution connects law firms to key conveyancing services, their clients and other law firms from within a single platform.

Building technology to inherit the burden of paper-intensive, arduous administrative tasks, we digitise the conveyancing process from end-to-end. Integration is in our DNA, providing best-in-class integration solutions with leading case management systems as well as HM Land Registry, HMRC and Companies House. Our platform exists to empower firms to deliver an exceptional client experience, every time. InfoTrack; the smart, sophisticated, secure solution for digital conveyancing.

SearchFlow is the UK’s largest provider of legal due diligence data for residential and commercial property transactions. Since its formation, it has supported over 5,000,000 instructions and delivered 26,000,000 searches; this equates to around 1 in every 4 property transactions in the UK.

SearchFlow recognises that proactively supporting each client’s journey is vital to delivering the right due diligence insights, searches, data, surveys and insurance for every transaction – whether a single residential property or a complex commercial portfolio. Via its advanced online ordering platform and backed-up by an award-winning customer service team, SearchFlow supports clients in delivering the conveyancing solutions needed to manage due diligence risk and achieve compliance.

By partnering with SearchFlow, property law professionals in the UK can deliver smarter, safer, and faster property transactions to their customers.

Based in Kent, SearchFlow is a Landmark Information Group business, which is part of DMGT plc.

Visit www.searchflow.co.uk for more information or follow via social media for regular updates:

• Twitter: https://twitter.com/SearchFlow
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/searchflow/

tmgroup make the complexities in the property transaction beautifully simple; bringing together over 20 years’ experience as a leading provider of property searches, as well as related data and technology services, to support all connected parties across the chain – including residential conveyancers, real estate professionals, and estate agents – with the latest, innovative solutions to help improve communication, efficiency and collaboration.

Thinking about switching? You’re in safe hands…

To date, tmgroup have successfully processed over 20 million property searches. In addition, tmgroup holds ISO 27001 certification, Microsoft Gold Partner and Investors in People status, ORB (Organisation of Responsible Businesses) membership, and regularly receives great client feedback, including;

• “The team are unfailingly helpful.” – Marina Wickens, Legal Director at Foot Anstey LLP.
• “Easy to navigate and very simple to order. I love the choice of searches available. – Jane Stark, Partner at Rainbow Law.
• “Thanks to tmgroup’s time-saving technology, we’ve significantly reduced the admin time per transaction, and this has helped our team work far more efficiently.” – Arash Dinari, Head of Commercial Property at Wolferstans Solicitors.

If you want to talk through any of the above, please get in touch directly with Martin Manning, Head of Account Management, on 07747 216424.

Office & Dragons is the plug-and-play platform for people who need to eliminate repetitive document work without dealing with templates or learning a coding language. After seeing countless colleagues burn out to tedious paper pushing, a group of ex-lawyers, data analysts, and engineers came together to create O&D.

Office & Dragons doesn't just automate repetitive legal work, it eliminates it. Users create and update documents within minutes of signing in, quickly capturing data with no extra effort. This allows them to spend their time doing more important things like winning more clients, wowing their existing clients, and being as competitive as possible without compromising on quality or profit.

Unlike document automation platforms, you won't spend months setting up systems and templates before you can benefit. We take you from zero to done on day one. 

Why Advanced?

Advanced has over 30 years’ experience in technical systems development. We provide legal software solutions to more than 5,000 law firms and barristers’ chambers, and more than 50,000 users.

Our legal customers depend on our solutions to support their business aims and processes every day. Our legal-centric software includes integrated chambers and practice case management systems, process workflows, time recording, Cloud forms, Cloud dictation and digital document bundle production.

Many of our customers also rely on our business solutions to manage their core business processes such as HR, payroll, finance, spend management and IT services.

Our goal is to enable our customers to drive efficiencies, savings and growth opportunities. We do this by providing right-first-time software solutions that evolve with the changing needs of their business and the environment they operate in.

When it comes to legal – we’re in your corner.

Visit our website for more information: www.oneadvanced.com

• Contact Details: 0330 191 0539
• Email: megan.gronow@oneadvanced.com

Modernize your client interaction workflows with Moxo. Today’s client engagement activities are stuck in the chaos of fragmented silos — requiring significant manual intervention. Moxo provides a OneStop Client Hub for managing client interactions through modern digital automation. Streamline deadline-driven client interactions, including account onboarding, account servicing, exception handling. Our team has a rich history of pioneering in the engagement space: Moxo’s co-founder and CEO, Subrah Iyar, was the co-founder and CEO of Webex, and Moxo’s co-founder and CTO, Stanley Huang, held senior engineering management positions at Cisco Systems and WebEx.

Nuance Communications is a world leader in conversational AI innovations that brings intelligence to everyday work and life. Nuance delivers solutions that understand, analyse, and respond to people – amplifying human intelligence to increase productivity and security.

With decades of domain and AI expertise, Nuance works with thousands of organisations globally across legal, financial services & insurance, healthcare, education, telecommunications, public services, and retail – to create stronger relationships and better experiences for their customers and workforce.

AlphaBiolabs is the UK’s leading and award-winning provider of DNA, drug and alcohol testing services for family law cases.

The AlphaBiolabs difference:

• Our in-house UKAS-accredited laboratory provides a comprehensive range of testing services.
• We take a highly consultative approach, so will work closely with you to determine the most appropriate test(s) for your particular case - particularly important in unusual or complex cases.
• Our team of expert in-house geneticists and toxicologists are always on hand to answer technical queries or explain results, and can provide evidence in court if required.
• A dedicated Account Manager will keep you up to date throughout the progress of your case.
• We offer rapid turnaround times on all testing services – we boast an award-winning standard next-day DNA testing service, and can even offer same-day testing.
• We guarantee sample collection within 48 hours of instruction. Our highly-trained team of professional clinicians will visit your client at home, at your offices, in prison, or any other suitable location.
• We also have a national network of walk-in centres for your client to provide their sample(s) free of charge, which means there is no sample collection fee.
• Drug Screen Plus is our free upfront screening service to analyse the sample for any drugs present.
• We deliver round-the-clock alcohol monitoring using state-of the-art SCRAM Continuous Alcohol Monitoring.

At Lextox, we provide drug, alcohol, and DNA testing services for family law cases and child care proceedings.

Established in 2011, by UK experts from within the industry, our aim then remains the same now – to provide our clients with reliable results and the most responsive client-oriented service.

As an ISO 17025 UKAS Accredited Testing Laboratory (No. 7516), we follow strict quality assurance procedures to deliver Analysis Results and Expert Reports in an average of 5 working days. Since our inception, we’re proud to have reduced the average industry turnaround time for Analysis Results and Expert Reports, have set the bar for service levels and subsequently grown a loyal client base of over 14,000 family law solicitors and local authorities across the UK.

The British Institute of International and Comparative Law (BIICL) is one of the leading independent research centres for international and comparative law in the world. Our high quality research projects, seminars and publications encompass almost all areas of public and private international law, comparative law and European law, and we are at the forefront of discussions on the many contemporary issues of international and comparative law. BIICL includes within it the innovative Bingham Centre for the Rule of Law, which has a particular focus on the many rule of law issues world-wide.

Fleet Street Wealth is a Chartered, independent, fee-based wealth management firm focused on providing independent, well researched and bespoke advice. We are proud to be a Chartered firm as it demonstrates that we have achieved the highest standards of professionalism.

We have long-standing relationships with legal professionals including many partners from within the top 20 law firms. We are also appointed as financial advisers to many of the main legal charities. We are a Bar Council Partner and one of the largest providers of financial advice and wealth management services to barristers, chambers management and members of the Judiciary for over 25 years.

Our highly-competitive, transparent fee structure includes fixed initial fees, discounts for multiple transactions and capped ongoing charges for larger accounts.

If you wish to review your financial situation, or are simply looking for a second opinion on your finances, call Fleet Street Wealth on 0207 353 6373, email financialadvice@fswealth.co.uk or visit www.fswealth.co.uk. The initial consultation is free and without obligation.

Fleet Street Wealth is a trading style of Fleet Street Financial which is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority.