There I was last Wednesday, minding my own business, catching up on the latest instalment of the Wagatha Christie court case, when my phone rang. That would mean only one of two things. Either it would be a client wanting to discuss why their case was taking so long, or a colleague asking me to […]Read More
We’d grown tired of sitting around eating bonbons and were looking for something else to do to pass the time. We knew there were personalised Cadbury’s Dairy Milk bars in the locked marketing room, but we couldn’t bring ourselves to steal them. Then, one of our lawyers stopped by and interrupted our afternoon quiet time […]Read More
So there we were, sitting around, eating bonbons, adding features to our case management system, and generally feeling pretty confident with how we were leading the way in conveyancing technology. When suddenly, last Tuesday, a message popped up at the bottom of the browser on our screens. I can’t remember the words exactly but, roughly […]Read More
Confessions of a cyber conveyancer
It’s tough being a thorn in people’s sides. I bleat on about using the latest technology while traditional lawyers disagree with me; “We don’t need technology” they cry, “we need better lawyers”. I tell them to take a long hard look in the mirror and realise that they must adapt to change. I then go […]Read More
You never stop learning. Oh, and making mistakes. Especially when you’re running a technology-led organisation like The Partnership, when things are always changing as you adapt to new requirements. I know I’ve been banging on for months about our migration to the cloud and its positive impact. Well, most of that positivity comes from me […]Read More
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 […]Read More
In the light of recent scares about the use of technology, while others grab their pitchforks to protect their Sacred Paper, I knew that to offer more innovation, I had to take a punt. After all, I didn’t know if something was going to work unless I tried it. I’d learned from the best – […]Read More
With the new year well and truly behind us, I find us once more back to the subject that has been haunting law firms across the country for the last few months. With dependence on technology only going one way and that’s UP, we’ve been obsessing over whether we’re taking enough steps to protect our […]Read More
As we were getting into the last days before Christmas, deals were starting to unwind and exchanges were picking up. Confidence was rising that we’d finally get some transactions through before everything closed. We even decided to treat ourselves to some mince pies for the office. Things were looking up and people were starting to […]Read More
As I mentioned in my last piece, a couple of weeks ago we moved all our documents to the cloud. It was an altogether more positive and friendly cloud than the one we had been sitting under, Eeyore-like, worrying about the devastating impact of a ransomware attack. Although successful, we had to make some difficult […]Read More
“Conveyancing Technology – when you don’t know what you don’t
The title of this piece might come across as somewhat negative. It’s actually the phrase we use during interviews when an inexperienced candidate claims “a lot of expertise in conveyancing”. This normally elicits a raised eyebrow and the comment, “the problem is, you don’t know what you don’t know”. Which is exactly the same issue […]Read More
The following article first appeared on Peter Ambrose’s Linked In account and has been kindly shared with Today’s Conveyancer So we learned yesterday that there is such a thing as good news. After deleting the BBC news app from my phone and browser I had been living a news-free existence for the last couple of months. […]Read More