The Legal Marketing Debate 2012
Subscribers to Today’s Conveyancer are invited to take part in the Legal Marketing Debate 2012. LM Group value expert opinions on the benefits and pitfalls involved in marketing for law firms, and have set up the debate. The aim of the debate is to gather a range of opinions from respected solicitors and legal professionals […]
Chelsea Building Society recognised for mortgage excellence
Chelsea Building Society has been recognised at the Moneywise Mortgage Awards, winning Best Lender for Fixed Rates. The Society was described as offering “consistency coupled with good service”. Jemma Smith, Product Manager from Chelsea Building Society commented: “Over the last 12 months Chelsea Building Society has consistently been expanding its portfolio. This is not […]
Conveyancing Alliance Group launches new broker website
The online conveyancing distributors Conveyancing Alliance Group today have launched a new website focused at brokers and their clients. Broker Conveyancing follows from Conveyancing Alliance’s other broker-only products, which include ‘Convey99’. Broker Conveyancing offers a range of conveyancing products aimed exclusively at the broker market. It has a number of features which Conveyancing Alliance believe […]
Credit crunch generation stuck in financial adolescence
Research conducted by Skipton Building Society reveals that almost half of Brits believe that the global economic crisis is forcing people to remain financial teenagers into their late twenties. Home ownership was cited as the number one life milestone that many are failing to achieve, to ‘grow up’. Other factors cited as life milestones being […]
Legal Services Consumer Panel urges Legal Ombudsman to accept cases from ‘third parties’
The Legal Services Consumer Panel has urged the Legal Ombudsman to accept cases from ‘third parties’, those individuals who are not the lawyer’s client. This is part of the Panel’s response to the Consultation by the Legal Ombudsman on its scheme rules. This includes proposals on third party complaints where there would be a […]
Law firms warned of threat of cyber crime
The Law Gazette has reported on a warning by a former assistant US attorney that UK law firms must strengthen their online security in order to protect their clients from the threat of cyber crime. Seth Berman is a former assistant US attorney and director of Stroz Friedberg, a digital risk management and investigations firm. […]
Marks and Spencer to launch M&S Bank this summer
Marks and Spencer has announced that it is to launch a bank this summer, which it says will bring the trusted Marks and Spencer brand values to banking and offer consumers more choice on the high street. It will be called M&S Bank and the first scheduled branch is due to open at the Marks […]
Halifax House Price Index shows growth in May
The Halifax House Price Index has been released this week, and shows that UK house price growth on an underlying basis increased for a second month in a row in May. House prices increase by 0.5% in May, which follows a volatile few months, which a 2.2% increase in March, and a 2.3% decrease in […]
Legal Ombudsman releases first quarterly newsletter
The Legal Ombudsman has released the first issue of its quarterly newsletter LeO News, which shares news, views and information. The newsletter contains a welcome from the Chair of the Board, Elizabeth France, who talks about the setting of key performance targets, and how the Legal Ombudsman aims to develop its communication with its users. […]
A Masterclass on Profitable Conveyancing
This brand new Masterclass will provide the skills needed to make your conveyancing more profitable – click here for full details A Masterclass on Profitable Conveyancing. The aim of the course is to equip the manager or leader with the skills needed to establish or maintain a profitable conveyancing team. It is designed to address the […]
Legal Services Board sets diversity reporting deadline
The Legal Services Board (LSB) has set the deadline for law firms to provide diversity data about every member of staff for the end of September reports the Law Gazette. The information gathered includes ethnicity, religious beliefs, socio-economic background and sexual orientation. The LSB has approved the planned exercise by the SRA in the […]
Blacks launch broker conveyancing service
Leeds based law firm Blacks LLP is launching Blacks Connect, a conveyancing service dedicated to mortgage intermediaries, which it says will offer competitive income opportunities to brokers, reports Mortgage Introducer. Blacks is building on its 20 years experience of providing legal services to major lenders and estate agencies. Referal fees to the service will be […]
HSBC Panel in Scotland remains unchanged despite changes in England and Wales
The HSBC has retained its restricted panel of approved solicitors in Scotland, despite making concessions to firms in England and Wales, the Journal of the Law Society of Scotland reports. In January the bank cut its panel to 43 firms across the UK, of which four were in Scotland. Under this system any borrower […]
Red Tape Challenge to look at reducing bureaucracy in legal services
The Government’s bureaucracy-busting ‘Red Tape Challenge’ is to look at legal services in June. The SRA is welcoming the chance to look at further opportunities to reduce regulatory burdens that inhibit the running of successful practices, using outcome focused regulation as an example of how they are already taking bureaucracy reducing measures. The Red Tape […]
Consumer power starting to take grip in Legal Services market says YouGov Survey
A YouGov survey commissioned by the Legal Services Consumer Panel shows signs that consumer power is starting to take a grip in the legal services market. More consumers are shopping around and demanding fixed-fee deals. However, there has been a knock in confidence in the sector. This is the second year that the survey has […]
