Fortune Favours The Brave

The Building Safety Act 2022 is a thorn in the side of solicitors and licensed conveyancers engaged in the sale and purchase of leasehold property. The legislation is still evolving and it is complex. In this three part series we talk with Ian Quayle of IQ Legal Training who helps us with some common sense and straightforward advice on this challenging subject.  This, the second podcast in this se...

The Building Safety Act 2022 is a thorn in the side of solicitors and licensed conveyancers engaged in the sale and purchase of leasehold property. The legislation is still evolving and it is complex. In this three part series we talk with Ian Quayle of IQ Legal Training who helps us with some common sense and straightforward advice on this challenging subject.  Our final podcast in the series hig...

The relationship between a client and their professional advisor does not always run smoothly. We need strategies to prevent difficult situations and to manage them when they occur.  In this podcast Clare Yates from CY Training Works offers some invaluable and practical guidance and advice on this very issue.  We encourage all our professional service firms to share the podcast across their teams....

In this episode, Howden's Sam Vardy speaks to Adam Craggs, Partner at international law firm, RPC about dawn raids.  The pair discuss what a dawn raid really entails, why they occur and how businesses and individuals should react.  Adam Craggs also talks through a free mobile app, developed by RPC, that can be used to help manage a dawn raid. 

Neil Williams of Howden is joined by his colleague Iain Middle and guests Stacy Penn from Association of Mortgage Intermediaries (AMI) and Rachael Healey from RPC to explore the risks faced by mortgage intermediaries.   In this episode they reflect on the state of the PI market over the last few years, moving on to explore what the current market is like for mortgage intermediaries. The panel then...

In the second of a two-part series, Neil Williams of Howden is joined by guests Alexa Jones and Niall Innes from Mills & Reeve as well as Tim Grey, to discuss regulatory issues affecting professional service firms, and lawyers and accountants in particular. Here we look at the interplay between PII and regulatory issues. There is often an overlap, and it is useful to discuss how this should be...

Neil Williams of Howden is joined by guests Alexa Jones and Niall Innes from Mills & Reeve as well as Tim Grey, for the first of a two-part series where experts discuss regulatory issues affecting professional service firms, and lawyers and accountants in particular. Here we briefly look at the history of regulation, the drivers and challenges for regulators and corporate investigations.

In this episode, our Head of Global Wellbeing Leo Savage was joined by Alex Partridge, former Olympian to discuss the prevalence of mental health in the workplace and how leaders can create a healthy and open environment for their employees. 

The topic of conversation for this podcast is the Building Safety Act 2022, a landmark piece of legislation with far reaching implications for the construction sector.  The act is extensive with more than enough content for 10 podcasts so this time we are going to look specifically at limitation periods for claims and what it means for construction firms' liability.  To help tackle this subje...

This is the third of a three part series on Litigation Risk Management where we hear from leading market experts on how clients considering or involved in a dispute can manage the associated risks using insurance and finance backed solutions. In this episode, Katie Armstrong is joined by special guest Sarah Vasani, Co-Head of International Arbitration at CMS, to provide insights from a lawyer&apos...

This is the second of a three part series on Litigation Risk Management where we hear from leading market experts on how clients considering or involved in a dispute can manage the associated risks using insurance and finance backed solutions. In this episode, Rhys Williams of Howden is joined by Sean McGuiness, Investment Manager at Omni Bridgeway to give an overview of litigation funding and exp...

This is the first of a three part series on Litigation Risk Management where we hear from leading market experts on how clients considering or involved in a dispute can manage the associated risks using insurance and finance backed solutions. In part one, Katie Armstrong, from our Litigation Risk Management team, is joined by colleague Nick Minns, from the Structured Solutions team, and guest  Ed...

Neil Williams of Howden is joined by his colleague Steve Ray and guest James Thompson from Mills & Reeve to discuss the risks faced by insurance brokers In this episode, they talk in more detail about risk management - breaking it down into three key areas; the paper trail, your own people and your clients - before delving into the area of claims - notifying claims and the types of claims bein...

Neil Williams of Howden is joined by his colleague Steve Ray and guest James Thompson from Mills & Reeve to discuss the risks faced by insurance brokers. In this episode, they look at the insurance market for professional risks, exploring the key areas, which of them really worry the insurers and where the claims come from.

Julia Graham, CEO of Airmic joins Jenny Screech of Howden and throws down the gauntlet to professional services firms, asking them to challenge their existing workplace culture and question whether this is causing problems with their recruitment and retention of talent. Recruiting and retaining talent in the current environment is going to require many professional firms to think outside the box....

In the current economic climate, law firms will be finding that clients are becoming ever more focused on the pricing and cost of legal services.  Jenny Screech of Howden is joined by Shaun Jardine of Big Yellow Penguin to talk about the issue of value based pricing. 

Join Paul White, Head of Technical, Howden Employee Benefits & Wellbeing and Jack Roper, Group Head of Sustainability, Legal & General as they discuss ESG and it's environmental impact.

Join Paul White, Head of Technical, Howden Employee Benefits & Wellbeing and Jo Elphick, Marketing Director, Group Protection, Legal & General as they discuss ESG in employee benefits, focusing on the forgotten 'S': Social.

Chris Davies of Howden is joined by guests Rob Morris (RPC) and Paul Freeman (Liberty Specialty Markets) to talk about life after British Steel and how the regulatory environment may be altered for Financial Advisers going forward, now that we've seen some of the output from the review itself. If you haven't done so already, we recommend going back and listening to the previous episodes...

Chris Davies of Howden is joined by guests Rob Morris (RPC) and Paul Freeman (Liberty Specialty Markets) to unpick the British Steel pensions scandal and redress. With the timeframe for the review having already started they’ll be discussing what the impacts are going forward for the advisory firms involved and what the future might look like. We recommend going back and listening to part one, two...

Starting a new law firm involves a considerable level of financial and professional risk and can be a brave step in the current economic environment.   If this is something you are considering, it is crucial to have an understanding of the most important issues you will need to consider in order to succeed.   Neil Pointon, Divisional Director within our Solicitors PI team recently caught up with B...

Professional services firms such as lawyers and accountants quite often agree to place one of their team on secondment, usually with a client. There are many obvious commercial and individual benefits as to why secondments are a good thing to do. But there are some issues and risks you need to contemplate.  Will Sefton and Kelly Thomson, both partners at law firm RPC join Jenny Screech, consultant...

Under the Code of Conduct for Solicitors, solicitors have a responsibility to put things right when they have gone wrong, but the decision of the Disciplinary Tribunal in Howell Jones back in 2019 suggests that you could end up in trouble if you do just that.   When responding to the duty to “put things right” for a client there is a considerable risk that there could be an own interest conflict l...

In the final part of this series, Shay Simkin and Dan Leahy of Howden are joined once again by Philippa Berry of CFC Underwriting and Andrew Maher of AXIS, where they look to demystify systemic risk and clarify what the new war exclusions actually mean for companies.

In this episode of Fortune Favours The Brave, Shay Simkin and Dan Leahy of Howden sit down with Philippa Berry, Cyber Product Leader at CFC Underwriting and Andrew Maher, Head of Cyber and Technology at AXIS to take a look at risk controls and resilience, pricing and capacity and the market as we look towards 2023.