FOCUS OF THE DAY: Law firms “getting even worse” at handling telephone enquiries, says mystery shopper. The way law firms handle telephone enquiries from prospective clients is so bad that “it’s as if every managing partner in the land met up at a secret location and agreed the worst way possible to deal with them”, a leading consultant has claimed. Full story - Legal Futures
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- EU ministers table changes to data privacy laws https://t.co/NxkRsjNw8N
- A more flexible legal framework for sharing data is on the horizon https://t.co/moSaiWZ8NT
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