Cunningtons Solicitors on You Tube
Cunningtons have launched a You Tube embedded video into their website to promote and explain the conveyancing process to their clients. As social media and internet marketing changes consumer behaviour the use of videos and audio to promote legal services continues to grow. The latest example comes from Cunningtons Solicitors featuring one of their partners […]
Goldsmith Williams cut remortgage costs as SVRs rise
The mortgage press is full of speculation that the remortgage market is about to grow. For many years now consumers have lacked the incentive to remortgage because standard variable rates have been very low and lenders have not been competing to offer better lower priced fixed rates. This may be starting to change with […]
CQS the year ahead
The Conveyancing Quality Scheme was announced at the end of 2010 with the first firms being accredited in February 2011. In its first year we are told 1723 applications have been received by The Law Society, 1247 have been accredited with 742 associated branches making total of 1989 ‘outlets’. The Law Society haven’t provided us […]
Impact of Solicitor fraud on smaller firms
When a lender suffers a loss due to fraud by a solicitor the claim might be against the compensation fund or against the professional indemnity policy depending on the circumstances. Most lenders believe they will never get paid from the compensation fund which is a discretionary fund aimed at covering hardship so they want to […]