The Data Protection Toolkit, 2nd edition offers updated advice on how to keep your practice compliant with the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the Data Protection Act (DPA), which came into force in May 2018. This essential toolkit features a range of forms, precedents and templates to support all data protection compliance measures within a legal practice. In addition to this, the toolkit offers practical guidance on: * setting up systems, * managing risk, * client inception, * ongoing monitoring, * data security, * data sharing, * subject access requests, * complaints handling, * data retention and destruction, * training and monitoring compliance.

Alison Matthews is Director of Quality & Risk at Shoosmiths. She has previously worked as a compliance consultant and lectured on the subject. Alison chaired the Law Society's Money Laundering Task Force for 4 years and is also the author of Law Society's Anti-Money Laundering Toolkit, 2nd edition.