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A software platform aimed at supporting businesses to easily comply with legislation has this week been launched. Belfast-based startup, ARMOUR, simplifies the compliance process and ensures businesses can keep their employees and customers safe, while also avoiding penalties, fines and legal actions. ARMOUR intelligently identifies, manages and audits a company’s legal requirements for reg...
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The inspirational tale of the side hustle that has become a full time creative business... If you’re hoping that 2020 is the year that you’ll turn your side hustle into a full time business, then this story may just give you some inspiration. Barrister turned designer Adaku Parker is opening a new studio in east London as her African wax fabric business goes from strength to strength...
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Common costly mistakes when hiring a team. Use this UK focused advice, care of Simon Gilmour, Employment Law Partner for Harper James Solicitors, to help avoid high hiring costs, low workplace morale and mistakes which could have you constantly recruiting. Starting a business means putting together a crack team to help you achieve your dream – but making mistakes with who you hire, how...
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The Link App - The app for lawyers that improves client relationships and drives efficiency at the same time... Lawyers can sometimes struggle to deal with a lot of clients at once. All it takes is one unexpected turn of events with one client and the knock-on effect can hit many of the others. Multitasking can be difficult at the best of times, but imagine doing so in a field as complicated and ...
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Thinking of entering and expanding your business into the US market? We chat to Michael Burke, Partner in the Washington, DC office of Arnall Golden Gregory LLP, who possesses vast experience with cross-border transaction in more than 50 international jurisdictions - about doing just that... Michael Burke is a Partner in the Washington, DC office of Arnall Golden Gregory LLP, and provides practic...
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John McGuckian, Partner at Tughans Solicitors, chatted to Startacus at this year's Digital DNA about the support Tughans can offer startups, what they look for in investable tech startups and the NI & Belfast tech startup scene. Tughans Solicitors have evolved over the past 100 years into one of the largest as well as a leading commercial law firm in Northern Ireland - and further afield in t...
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A good moan about some of the, more painful, aspects of the GDPR (or the way it has been interpreted) now that the dust has settled on the mad rush to “GDPR deadline day”.10 things I hate about the GDPR…. a view on why some ambiguities in GDPR could present issues for business - from Lawyer, Andrew Kirke, Director of Contracts and Technology Dept, at leading commercial law ...
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