There’s much in the press at the moment about the use of facial recognition technology by the police and other law enforcement agencies for crime prevention and national security purposes. There are clearly significant advantages to using biometric data in a business, the main ones being security and convenience, but does this mean you should be using such data? Our latest blog looks at the legal issues that need to be considered.
When a key member of your legal team is due to go on maternity leave (or parental leave) there’s often a bit of a panic to find the right cover. Here at Stephenson Law it’s one of our favourite services and our retainer model works perfectly to give you complete flexibility, tailoring the cover to meet the needs of the business.
At the beginning, a lawyer is not going to be on your radar, but pretty soon your tech startup is going to need more than just the basics. That’s where we come in.
You’re working hard to build your business. You’re speaking to a prospective partner or supplier and need to share confidential information with them but you’re worried about the information being misused. It’s time to get an NDA.
Indemnity clauses are commonplace in a wide variety of agreements. And they’re often the one clause that a customer really wants to have and a supplier really doesn’t want to give.
It’s tough starting your own business. I knew that when I started mine but, having a been a contractor and consultant solicitor for a while, I was already halfway there so it seemed the logical next step.
A hundred years ago. It’s close enough that you can hold a picture in your mind of what life might have been like, yet far enough removed that the reality is likely very different.
In the lead-up to 25 May 2018, there was a huge sense that the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) was going to change everything. Businesses were going to have to wipe their entire customer databases out of fear they wouldn’t meet the high standards of opt-in consent …
We started the week here at SLHQ with a discussion about designing the law firm of the future. What’s changing in the industry right now? (We wondered.) And what are the key disruptive trends coming our way?