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When Disaster Strikes – A Practical Path to Legal Practice Recovery
Disasters in legal practices are often unforeseen but never impossible. Whether it’s an IT failure, a cyberattack, or extreme weather, recovery doesn’t just happen. It requires meticulous planning, preparation, and the ability to act decisively. The difference between maintaining client trust and closing your doors often comes down to...
Safequip – Your Trusted Fire Solution Manufacturer and Distributor
When a fire breaks out, there is no room for hesitation. You need equipment you can trust and a company you can depend on. For more than three decades, SafeQuip has been a leading SABS-approved manufacturer and distributor of firefighting equipment across the African continent.
What sets SafeQuip apart is...
𝗦𝗲𝗰𝘂𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗦𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗵 𝗔𝗳𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮’𝘀 𝗗𝗶𝗴𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗜𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗜𝗻𝗳𝗿𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲: 𝗔 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗶𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲-𝗟𝗲𝗱 𝗔𝗽𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗮𝗰𝗵 𝘁𝗼 𝗲𝗙𝗶𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴...
South Africa’s cybercrime landscape has reached a troubling inflection point. The recent reports of hijacked SARS eFiling profiles, combined with an ongoing surge in social-media-based payment fraud, reveal a deeper structural weakness: the country lacks a unified, compliance-led framework to safeguard digital identity and transactional integrity across financial and...
Urgent – Windows 10 Free Extended Security Updates
End of support for Windows 10, which is fast approaching on the 14th October 2025, but you can enrol your Windows 10 PC to get extended security updates until the 13th October 2026. A lot of current Windows 10 PC cannot update to the latest Windows 11, and this...
A Lot of Legal Content Is Now AI Garbage — Here’s...
The market is flooded with AI-powered content mills claiming to write legal content. After 13 years running a legal content agency, here are my red flags and green flags for identifying legal content marketing writers who deliver effective, compliant material.
In 2023, I was concerned that generative AI would render...
How to Use AI Simulations to Train Candidate Attorneys
Legal experts understand that the industry continuously evolves. Training career-ready attorneys requires innovative teaching methods, like using artificial intelligence (AI) to train candidates. Integrating AI with standard legal education courses in South Africa or abroad could revolutionise training practises. Graduates will enter the workforce with the practical skills and...
Daan’s Snippets – 3rd November 2025
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The Northern Cape High Court has overruled the MEC for Agriculture, holding that rhino conservation breeding facilities may be granted permits to export rhino horns. This is hailed as a breakthrough for conservation.
New rules for the Small Claims Courts, Magistrates Courts, High Courts and SCA have been announced. If...
MYTH BUSTING: Common Beliefs [Part 12: Vacations]
![MYTH BUSTING: Common Beliefs [Part 12: Vacations]](https://www.tech4law.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Myth-Busting-Common-Beliefs-Part-12-image-2-324x235.jpg "MYTH BUSTING: Common Beliefs [Part 12: Vacations]")
Myth Busting Common Beliefs “Taking a Real Vacation is Impossible Without the Firm Imploding…”
The end of the year is nigh and for most of us that means schools are closed, Christmas trees are up (for those that celebrate), swimming costumes are dusted off, and bags are packed.
It’s December around...
Specno and Tentra launch AI-powered rental platform to transform tenant onboarding...
South African technology companies Specno and Tentra are pleased to announce the launch of a new AI-powered home rental platform in South Africa. By leveraging the full capabilities of AI-enabled systems, Tentra aims to streamline rental applications in our country, to benefit both agents and prospective tenants, by simplifying...
Expensive KYC and FICA experiment has failed dismally
After three and a half decades, the verdict on “Know Your Customer” (KYC) and the Financial Intelligence Centre Act (FICA) is unmistakable: It is a regime of enormous cost, derisory efficacy, and significant collateral damage. It has failed in its declared mission, reduced tax collection, and succeeded in constructing...
Windows 11 glitch hits justice department’s IT systems
The Department of Justice and Constitutional Development’s (DOJ&CD’s) systems have been disrupted by a Windows 11 malfunction linked to a recent Microsoft security update.
The DOJ&CD is a key government department in South Africa responsible for overseeing the country’s justice system and ensuring legal processes operate efficiently, fairly and in...
MYTH BUSTING: Common Beliefs [Part 11: Delegation]
“Delegating Complex Work Means Losing Control (or Quality) …”
There’s something about being an expert in your field. Or at least thinking you are the expert. Feeling like you are the first and last word on a matter. Being the leader in more ways than one.
It has a way of...
The insidiousness of universal digital identification
Few tools have been as seductive as the promise of a universal identification system that the state can at will rely upon to enforce its dictates. While the discourse on “digital ID” is most pronounced now in the United Kingdom, echoes of it have been heard in South Africa...
Ambitious South African project to tackle e-waste with help from international partners
Every year millions of electrical and electronic devices and appliances, including mobile phones and computers, are thrown away. These discarded devices are considered electronic waste (e-waste) – now the fastest growing waste stream in the world – and can become a threat to both health and the environment if...
Myth Busting: Common Beliefs [Part 10: Not Billable Enough]
"If I'm Not Swamped, I'm Not Successful (or Billable Enough)."
"I'm late, I'm late for a very important date. No time to say hello, goodbye. I'm late, I'm late, I'm late!" was famously said by the White Rabbit in Lewis Carol’s Alice in Wonderland. And it always makes one think of a...
When legal turns on legal, justice is denied
When advocates sue attorneys, something deeper than a fee dispute is at play. It signals that the professional bond designed to serve justice has started to fray.
And when that bond fails, the ripple effects reach far beyond the chambers—they reach the client. For people already under strain, that discord...
From Legal Blogs and Publishing to Vertical Video
Doesn’t seem that long ago that I was reporting that over 60% of millennials were getting news on Facebook. Well it turns out it was ten years go.
Reuters creation of the role of a “social-first video reporter” signals a...
The hidden cost of shrinking your marketing investment
In tough economic times, marketing is often the first budget to get scaled back. But in complex industries, it’s often the glue holding everything together, including the customer experience!
According to Robyn Beckworth Judge, Head of Group Marketing at e4,...
Know the difference between brand perception vs. reputation to maximise business growth
In today's competitive business environment, where trends shift rapidly and customer loyalty is hard-won, understanding the distinction between brand perception and brand reputation is the difference between building a brand that resonates or merely echoes. Mistake these two, and...
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