Further details have emerged about a “National Conveyancing Week” in 2023 designed to inform, educate, assist, motivate, reassure, help recruit new entrants, improve the profile of conveyancers and conveyancing, and ensure fees can be set at and kept at an acceptable level.
Formally launched at the Bold Legal Conference in June, the first ever National Conveyancing Week will be held w/c 20th March 2023.
The week will be dedicated learning, networking, training, retaining, and attracting new employees by taking part in a national schedule of in-person and online educational and networking events for conveyancers. The plan is for the week to be structured into themes including using technology to drive innovation and safety, efficiencies and profit, conveyancer wellbeing, mental health and attracting, training and retaining new talent, amongst others.
National Conveyancing Week is being coordinated the Bold Legal Group and Today’s Media, the publishers of Today’s Conveyancer.
The two organisations are calling on the industry, and those with a vested interest in its success, to come together to support the initiative. Organisations interested in getting involved should contact info@conveyancingweek.co.uk.
Discussing the importance of raising the profile of conveyancing, Rob Hailstone, founder and CEO of the Bold Legal Group said:
“Conveyancers are, on the whole, undervalued, underappreciated and misunderstood. There are more leaving the conveyancing profession at the top end than there are joining at the bottom end, and is it any wonder?
In the 20th Century, conveyancers had maybe 10 plates to keep spinning at any one time. Now, in the 21st century, it is many, many more – and they still keep being added too.
The job now is far more challenging than it was in my day, and despite advances in technology, in some quarters there is still a reluctance to adopt and adapt and create efficiencies to enable productivity and streamline workflow. Something needs to change.”
Managing Director of Today’s Media David Opie added:
“The profile of conveyancing and conveyancers needs to improve. They are not the bad guys: in fact, quite the opposite. They help people buy their dream homes so that they can live in them and enjoy them as they should. And in these times of frauds and scams, they also make sure that the biggest purchase of their lives is carried out diligently.”
More information about plans for the week will be released shortly.
