Walker Foster Solicitors, a law firm serving market towns and rural areas across the North of England for generations, is truly seeing the value in their investment of intelligent client onboarding technology developed by LFS. LFS developed Minerva in late 2019. Helping law firms ensure an exceptional customer experience, the technology provides quote management, ID […]Read More
In May 2022, the Fair Business Banking and Anti-Corruption and Responsible Tax all-party parliamentary groups (APPGs) published a joint Economic Crime Manifesto. The statement sets out a “comprehensive list of pragmatic reforms” designed to tackle the UK’s dirty money crisis and stop Russian oligarchs, criminals, kleptocrats and wrongdoers who have been using London to hide […]Read More
In the third of our short webinar series with people from our industry, we are going to be chatting with one of our technology partners, Tom Lyes, Head of Legal and Property at Armalytix. These short snappy, chatty gatherings are our way of bringing to you the experts in their field, a conversation on the […]Read More
In this short webinar, we talk with Co-Founder of YouConvey and former Chair of the CA, Eddie Goldsmith. Eddie joins Minerva’s Sales Director Richard Mathias to chat all things current in conveyancing – what does the market look like right now? What are the burning topics? Not your average chat – join these two legends […]Read More
A legal technology supplier has been celebrating their first quarter with a vibrant collective of new users and clients. The tech team at Law Firm Services (LFS) with their client onboarding solution Minerva have seen exponential growth not just with new clients, but also with existing firms rolling out the solution across all practices areas. […]Read More
Leading the way with client onboarding With an amazing start to 2022, the tech team at Law Firm Services (LFS) continue to welcome more law firms to the Minerva community. With offices based across the South East and in central London, Blaser Mills Law is a Legal 500 and Chambers ranked firm committed to building […]Read More
What a night! The team travelled to London for a fabulous afternoon and evening of celebrations. The brilliant, glittering event saw the industry come together after what has been a very uncertain and pressured two years for all. To be announced as the winner of the Legal Supplier of the Year is truly an honour […]Read More
In the month of love and storms, a brilliant union is announced. This time last year, The Law Society announced that a number of leading organisations in the conveyancing profession had agreed to work together – known as “The Conveyancing Task Force” – to agree and discuss the reform and improvement of the conveyancing process […]Read More
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 […]Read More
LFS develops relationship with Techedia to provide effective Proclaim support
Law Firm Services Ltd (LFS) has formed a partnership with Techedia to ensure effective Proclaim support and integration with its Minerva onboarding platform. LFS is a recognised supplier of innovative software to the UK legal sector. Constantly reviewing the market to bring new answers to industry problems, in 2019 it developed intelligent client onboarding™ solution […]Read More
Minerva selects Armalytix’s Source of Funds technology to complete 48-hour
Armalytix, which uses open banking technology to streamline the collection of data for the professional and financial services industries, has been selected by Minerva, an electronic onboarding solution for law firms, to create an intelligent, digital onboarding service for the legal market and estate agents. Minerva’s client onboarding solution speeds up the end-to-end process for […]Read More
Stephen Rimmer LLP, a firm that offers a full range of commercial and consumer legal services, is leading the way in dealing with the conveyancing boom during the Covid-19 pandemic. The firm’s conveyancing team has seen increased workloads due to the high demand in the UK property market brought on by the UK government’s tax […]Read More
Speed, security and simplicity for onboarding – Beyond Conveyancing The tech team at LFS with their client onboarding solution Minerva continue to welcome more law firms, with the latest being the Beyond Group and its specialist conveyancing team. Manchester based and led by property lawyer Sarah Edwards, Beyond Conveyancing are future focused and keen to […]Read More
A multi-office Conveyancing firm is enjoying greater connections with their clients since fully integrating with technology developed by LFS. Back in late 2019, LFS developed their client onboarding solution, Minerva. Since then the whole world has of course faced the pandemic with a need for remote working pushed to the forefront. Fortunately for those law […]Read More
With the stamp duty holiday now over, conveyancers and estate agents are looking forward to a more stable market with a little less pressure to meet artificial deadlines. This has meant a return to focus on some of the key issues that affect the home buying and selling process. There is widespread agreement that things […]Read More
Northampton based legal tech company LFS have had a significant year of growth with their product Minerva, despite the challenges of the pandemic, with 100 law firms now using their solutions, over 30 having deployed the full solution since launching at the start of 2020. Rising numbers With transactions totaling 90,000 from June 2020 to […]Read More
Millennials are now aged between 25 and 40. And as this group makes its way up the career ladder, the millennial pound is strengthening as the generation enters its prime spending years. As such, millennials should be a target customer group for most legal businesses. According to recent reports, over 50% of first-time home buyers […]Read More
Protecting against fraud and ensuring your clients are who they say they are can be challenging. But with all solicitors required to carry out proper identity checks, and the Safe Harbour Standard for conveyancers setting a new benchmark for the profession, failing to verify isn’t an option. Nevertheless, authentication takes time, and the process can […]Read More
In today’s world of e-commerce and online banking, consumers expect instant access to services in a safe and secure environment. In the legal industry, meeting the needs and expectations of clients is key in an evolving, challenging and competitive legal environment. Unrivalled client experience differentiates law firms from competitors and added value will give fee […]Read More
The impact of the coronavirus pandemic has both created positive and negative outcomes for the legal landscape. Those barriers have had to be overcome, but it has enabled the legal environment to transition positively to new ways of operating against a backdrop of an unpredictable economic outlook. The last 18 months has forced fee earners […]Read More