Growing Revenues With Brighter Law
By Carole Ankers, Chief Product & Technology Officer, poweredbypie We work on the premise that conveyancers should convert around 70% of their estimates. Less than this, then there is a problem. Do you know who converts the most enquiries or who the top fee earner is in your firm? From experience of ‘crunching the numbers’ […]
SearchFlow To Host Continuing Competence Event
SearchFlow – the UK’s leading provider of conveyancing search solutions – is inviting property lawyers, conveyancers and legal secretaries to attend a free Continuing Competence Event that will focus on several important topics, including avoiding negligence claims, residential leases, Stamp Duty, local authority searches and emerging technologies. The event, which is taking place on Tuesday […]
26% Fall In New Build Sales Received For Registration
The number of new build sales received for registration in January 2020 fell by over a quarter compared with the year earlier. Of the 95,982 sales received for registration, 12,841 were for newly built properties, a 26.4 per cent reduction on the numbers from January 2019. Whilst the total figure represented an increase on both […]
Online Fraudsters Sentenced For £10 Million Push Payment Fraud
An unscrupulous gang of five online fraudsters have been jailed for ‘payment diversion fraud’ offences worth over £10 million. The North West London Economic Crime Unit identified a total of 235 separate frauds committed between 2014 and 2019, and totalling £9.2 million. The gang’s preferred method of attack was to introduce Malware to steal login […]
Amanda Hamilton Discusses Evolving Role Of Modern Paralegals
Once viewed as the assistant to a solicitor with a main aim of aiding them in the development of a case, the role of a paralegal is now unrecognisable. Gone are the days when a paralegal’s main function was to act as support or admin alone. Law firms are encouraged to fully utilise the expert […]
Mortgage Approvals Rise To Pre-Referendum Levels
Mortgage approvals for home purchases reached pre-referendum highs in January. The 70,900 mortgage approvals for house purchases, a key indicator for future lending, represented a 4.4 per cent increase when compared with the already buoyant December figures and indicated the highest approval rate since February 2016, according to the Bank of England’s (BoE) Mortgage Lending […]