“Revolutionary” conveyancing service launched
Conveyancing industry personality Eddie Goldsmith has launched YouConvey, a conveyancing service he says will “revolutionise the conveyancing industry”. YouConvey will place greater onus on homeowners to take control of admin tasks often assigned to busy conveyancing teams with the intention of reducing the time and stress involved in their transaction. Homeowners will be given access […]
Diary of a High Street Conveyancer; 14th February 2022
The Today’s Conveyancer High Street Conveyancer considers how the conveyancing process has changed with more information now required to transact property
Upcoming webinars with Groundsure in March
Groundsure are running the final two instalments of their Compliance series in March. They will dive into the environmental impacts of ground stability and flooding to help you better understand the risks to your client. Hidden hazards: interpreting ground stability risk for your client With Andy Crawshaw, 1st March, 11:00am – 11:30am. By the end […]
Sponsor Spotlight: Thirdfort Limited
The British Conveyancing Awards, sponsored by Dye & Durham, simply would not happen without the support of the industry. Thank you to all those who have entered and sponsored the event which this year is hosted as a hybrid event; with an in-person ceremony at the stunning Church House in London, simultaneously livestreamed via The […]
SRA Survey: is legal technology appropriate for the general public?
The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) would like to understand your views on the acceptability of legal technology (lawtech) for the general public in its latest survey. This survey is aimed at lawyers who work directly for individual clients and SMEs, and is being conducted in parallel with a survey aimed at consumers. It is being […]
Law Society Group: 2021 gender pay gap report
The Law Society Group has published its gender pay gap report for 2021. The report includes the combined results of the Law Society of England and Wales and the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA), which operates independently. The report shows that the 2021 median pay gap between men and women is 11.3%, lower than the current […]
Countrywide signs deal with ESTAS reviews
Countrywide has announced a deal which will see 49 of its brands use the ESTAS customer review platform with a focus on increasing their Google reviews. The agreement will increase ESTAS client base to 1,300 offices across conveyancers, agents, and mortgage brokers. The number of firms using ESTAS has tripled since March 2020. Simon Brown, […]
Convey Law donates over £3000 to SANDS in support of staff member
Convey Law has donated over £3,000 to one of its conveyancers who has undertaken a charity challenge for national charity SANDS (the Stillbirth and Neonatal Death Society) which supports families losing a baby. The leading conveyancing practice, which has a growing reputation for charity support, pledged £1 for every 100 steps taken by conveyancer Lauren […]
Osprey Approach and InfoTrack webinar helps firms to get Digital AP1-ready
Osprey Approach, leading legal software provider, and InfoTrack, award-winning providers of digital conveyancing solutions, are delighted to invite conveyancing practices to attend a joint webinar to help them prepare for the digitisation of Land Registry’s AP1 forms. The webinar follows the recent announcement from HM Land Registry that, from November 2022, it will no longer accept […]
Why is it crucial for lawyers to identify and verify source of funds?
The growing number of frauds, tax evasion, investment scams, and money laundering cases across the country has once again turned the spotlight on the importance of complying with anti-money laundering (AML) policies. Nonetheless, financial institutions are not the only ones subjected to AML regulations. Law firms are also required to monitor and investigate the […]
Housing stock “perilously close” to running out
Regional property markets in the UK are coming perilously close to running out of any stock whatsoever to sell, according to findings from property data and analytics company, TwentyEA. The data platform’s Property and Homemover End of Year Report, published by parent company, TwentyCi, showed that in 2021, there were 6% fewer properties put up […]
East Anglia law firm collaborates with Legal Eye to ensure regulatory compliance
East Anglia-based law firm Clapham & Collinge Solicitors has been established for over 65 years and provides a full range of legal services to businesses and individuals across Norfolk. Soon after the start of the pandemic in 2020, when remote working was enforced, the Clapham & Collinge team sought an independent review of their policies, procedures […]
Confessions of a cyber conveyancer
Since starting The Partnership, I had always been comforted by the reassuring whirring coming the dark and chilly cupboard which housed our servers. This was the beating heart of the business and, given my paranoid fear of hackers, we stored every single byte of data we had ever created behind that locked door. This meant […]
Lawyer Checker Q&A: Lindsay Petzer
Now in its 11th year, Lawyer Checker, a Dye & Durham solution, has become a well-known, trusted brand within the conveyancing sector. Lawyer Checker continues to help firms achieve demonstrable due diligence in some of the most challenging times ever experienced. With a dramatic rise in cyber security scam alerts of almost a third in […]
Sponsor Spotlight: Lawyer Checker, a Dye & Durham Solution
The British Conveyancing Awards, sponsored by Dye & Durham, simply would not happen without the support of the industry. Thank you to all those who have entered and sponsored the event which this year is hosted as a hybrid event; with an in-person ceremony at the stunning Church House in London, simultaneously live streamed via […]
58% of homeowners believe SDLT reform is needed
According to new research from London-based Butterfield’s Mortgages, the majority of homeowners and homebuyers believe Stamp Duty Land Tax (SDLT) is an outdated form of taxation in need of reform. The mortgage lender commissioned an independent survey of 1,125 homeowners and homebuyers in England and Northern Ireland. It found that 58% want to see an […]
SRA: diversity in the profession is improving, “but more to do”
Diversity within law firms is continuing to slowly improve year-on-year, with smaller firms increasingly more diverse than larger ones. These are among the key findings published by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) following its latest collection of diversity data from more than 8,700 law firms employing more than 180,000 people across England and Wales. There […]
Free online event from Clio: how to improve client intake at your firm
Changing client expectations and staff expectations call for a shift in the client intake process for law firms. With hybrid and remote working more common, and with consumers expecting to do more online, how law firms approach client intake can be crucial to success. If you are still relying on spreadsheets or paper-based client intake […]
Five online marketing tools your firm can use to attract more clients
Online marketing for law firms has become a hot topic—and a highly competitive space—over the past decade. That is because, more than ever before, people are turning to the internet to seek legal help and find a lawyer. If you want to have any chance of succeeding in today’s legal world, you need to have […]
Perfect storm of delays culminates in finger-pointing at the conveyancing process
Available to download now, the latest research from tmgroup, mio and Conveyancing Data Services (CDS) – “The New Normal” report – has revealed that the conveyancing process and searches were predominantly held responsible for delays across the property transaction; owing to sheer volume of transactions, inconsistencies and lack of collaboration, as the reports commentators reflect: […]