UK law firms face the delicate challenge of embracing AI innovation without compromising the confidentiality standards their clients rely on. AI has an extremely wide scope and is capable of an extraordinary range of tasks, helping to optimise and streamline operations within a law firm and increase the benefit to clients. However, AI is [...]
Whilst the Online Safety Act might initially only seem to be aimed at social media and big tech platforms, it has important knock-on effects for UK law firms, especially when it comes to data protection, client trust, and your law firm’s reputation. What is the Online Safety Act? In essence, the Online Safety Act aims to make online platforms [...]
The EU’s Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) makes it safer for consumers and businesses to purchase software and hardware products with a digital component. To understand more about what this means for UK law firms, read on for an overview of what this law covers, how it relates to the UK, and its implications for [...]
Microsoft Copilot can be a powerful tool for legal work, but it carries inherent risks for client data. Law firms can still safely use Copilot and other AI tools without risking client confidentiality, but only as long as practical steps are taken to prevent data leaks and ensure compliance. Read on to learn more [...]
Last week Pro Drive IT was delighted to attend the Surrey Law Society (SLS) Legal Awards 2025, held once again at G Live in Guildford. As providers of specialist IT support to the legal sector, Pro Drive are longstanding patrons of the SLS and proud to support an event that recognises the outstanding talent [...]
In recent months, cyber-attacks on high profile retail businesses including Marks & Spencer (M&S) and the Co-op have made the news headlines. This has affected many customers of these businesses, not just in terms of product availability, but also by having their personal data sold to criminals on the dark web. Of even greater [...]
We currently live in a more unstable and unpredictable world which is putting pressure on all businesses. Whether it is the global macroeconomic impact of Trump’s trade policies, the impact of wars raging on several continents or the increase in national insurance (effectively an employment tax) we have seen in the UK, businesses are [...]
Pro Drive IT recently ran a roundtable exercise titled “How to avoid cyber annihilation of your firm”, which as the name suggest was designed to educate the attendees on the cyber security risks to their business and to give them some practical advice and tips on how to respond if (when!) an incident occurs [...]
If you are a regular follower of this blog or our newsletters, you will have noticed that we have published a lot of content on Microsoft Copilot and more generally on generative AI over the past 12 months. So why are we so excited about Copilot? Well, generative AI as a whole makes the [...]
We recently wrote about the danger of impersonation scams and highlighted how generative AI is making these scams more convincing, in particular ‘Vishing’ which usually centres around telephone based scams. A more recent development, particularly worrying for professional and financial services firms, is voice cloning. This might sound like something from the Terminator but [...]
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