How UK Law Firms Can Effectively Balance Innovation with Data Protection in the AI Era

2025-11-24T11:14:02+00:00November 24th, 2025|AI, Cyber Security, Law|

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 [...]

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Why UK Law Firms Should Keep an Eye on the Online Safety Act

2025-11-24T11:07:57+00:00November 20th, 2025|Cyber Security, Law|

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 [...]

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The Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) and its Implications for UK Law Firms

2025-11-24T11:07:34+00:00November 13th, 2025|Cyber Essentials, Cyber Security, Law|

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 [...]

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How UK Law Firms Can Maintain Security and Client Confidentiality When Using Copilot

2025-11-24T10:39:13+00:00November 6th, 2025|AI, Law|

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 [...]

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Celebrating Excellence at the Surrey Law Society Legal Awards 2025

2025-11-24T10:29:19+00:00October 27th, 2025|Law|

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 [...]

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Why IT outages hit professional services firms hard – and the simple strategy to avoid it

2025-09-17T20:43:10+01:00September 17th, 2025|Productivity, Security and Threats|

For all companies, downtime related to IT is costly and frustrating. For Accountancy and Law firms that charge by the hour it's worse as you're getting hit twice. You still have to pay your staff but they can't work and therefore can't charge out to your clients. Every minute your team can’t access critical systems [...]

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Cyber attack! How to survive the unthinkable (Surrey Law Society special)

2025-10-06T08:31:53+01:00August 12th, 2025|, |

    A workshop on leading your firm through a cyber crisis *** This workshop is being hosted exclusively for Surrey Law Society members - please click this link to register*** If spending a morning actually reducing the risk of a cyber attack putting your firm out of business [...]

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Cyber attack! How to survive the unthinkable

2025-09-10T10:31:25+01:00July 25th, 2025|, |

    REGISTER FOR THE EVENT A workshop on leading your firm through a cyber crisis If spending a morning actually reducing the risk of a cyber attack putting your firm out of business is of value, this is the event for you! Being a director or partner of [...]

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How your IT team can be tricked into letting cyber criminals access to your IT systems

2025-06-02T17:24:41+01:00June 2nd, 2025|Accountants, Cyber Security, Financial Services, Law, Tips and Advice|

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 [...]

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How to avoid cyber annihilation of your firm

2025-06-18T11:07:12+01:00April 1st, 2025|, |

    REGISTER FOR THE EVENT If spending a morning actually reducing the risk of cyber annihilation for your firm is of value, this is the event for you! Being a director or partner of a firm means carrying responsibility for your wellbeing of your staff and protecting your [...]

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