Covid has had a major impact on legal services. It has seen increased digitalisation across the profession and instilled the need for law firms to be more productive. In just two years, there has been twenty years’ worth of modernisation. The most important step change for the next 10 years will be understanding that a […]Read More
The Digital Solicitor Podcast: “The practical ways innovative software helps improve productivity in your practice” Whether you are embedding a single system to run your firm, improving digital literacy across your team, or harnessing powerful software integrations to help with the heavy lifting, this informative podcast talks about how to form a successful strategy and […]Read More
The expectations on service that law firms were required to deliver soared during the pandemic with reliance on technology becoming essential in order to help satisfy clients’ heightened demands by facilitating remote support and uninterrupted communications. Now, following a year of contactless customer service options, clients are comfortable with, and even prefer, the digital service […]Read More
With SDLT holiday transactions tailing off, now is a good time to look at where the overworked conveyancing market has left solicitors and think about what comes next. To help us do this, the Digital Solicitor podcast is joined by Rob Hailstone of the Bold Legal Group, an ex-residential property conveyancer with over 40 years’ […]Read More
The global pandemic has shown that the way clients want to communicate with their law firm has changed. The pre-pandemic model of clients turning up at the office and accessing legal services via traditional means is largely a thing of the past. Clients are embracing the digital shift. They now expect a better service, often […]Read More
The Digital Solicitor Podcast: How the LEAP Best Practice Standard
The Digital Solicitor Podcast: How the LEAP Best Practice Standard helps conveyancers earn more money The LEAP Best Practice Standard for conveyancers was set-up four years ago as an accreditation mark of excellence achieved by law firms using LEAP’s innovative technology. Through its use of independent, remote and specialist audits, achievement of the standard shows […]Read More
The pandemic has pushed the dialogue around working from home forward by about 30 years. It has raised the whole topic of how we work and where we work, so how can law firms continue to motivate, support, promote wellbeing and improve collaboration amongst their teams with working from home becoming increasingly popular? And what […]Read More
John Espley, LEAP UK CEO, explains how conveyancers are using the latest technology and the LEAP Best Practice Standard to enhance their customer service and to win new business. The UK housing market remains remarkably buoyant, due to government measures such as the Stamp Duty holiday and government backed 5% deposit scheme. As with all […]Read More
The Digital Solicitor Podcast: Confidence in the Cloud
In recent years there has been a cultural and emotional shift with the Cloud becoming an everyday part of our lives and yet few of us can truly describe what the cloud is. There remains something of the black arts about it that can cause uncertainty, especially for potential business users who are used to […]Read More
LEAP and InfoTrack: End-to-end digital conveyancing
Providing a powerful suite of solutions from client onboarding and searches to post-completion and e-signature services, the InfoTrack integration with LEAP digitises the entire conveyancing process and assures compliance and productivity throughout. Seamless, two-way integration empowers firms to operate more efficiently, achieving savings up to 30% of time per matter. The past year has been […]Read More
LEAP, the leading practice management software provider, is delighted to announce a new partnership with business solution specialist Red Rain, creator of the RedView suite of products. Seamlessly integrated with LEAP, RedView provides law firms with a range of capabilities that enhance and supplement their day-to-day operations, assisting them to grow their business while allowing […]Read More
LEAP University, which launched in 2019 is an online learning platform that enables users to train and refresh their skills in using the LEAP software via an ever-expanding directory of courses. This includes creating matters and cards, capturing matter level information, generating documents and sharing correspondence. The university is available to every LEAP user and […]Read More
Craig Taylor of LEAP Legal Software has spoken to Today’s Conveyancer and given his expert tips on how technology can aid law firm compliance and efficiency. Technology is a huge factor in ensuring compliance. Its effective and comprehensive use is the secret to making compliance in conveyancing simple. Technology helps enable consistency and accurate outcomes, […]Read More
During the pandemic, the main focus of the Legal Aid Agency has been to help providers continue legal aid services for clients, identifying new flexible ways of working. The pandemic has created opportunities for these providers to improve their systems by becoming more agile and therefore offer a better service. Legal aid firms have their […]Read More
John Espley, CEO of LEAP UK, the legal practice management software provider, puts forward the case that the pandemic has created an opportunity for law firms to improve their systems by becoming more agile and therefore offering a better service to their clients. At the start of the pandemic many law firms were still over […]Read More
Today’s conveyancing market is experiencing unprecedented times. Lockdown, Brexit, seasonal holidays and the current cut in stamp duty are factors having a major impact, both positively and negatively, on the profession. Following the catastrophic stall in house sales caused by the pandemic, the last couple of months have been amongst the busiest for ten years. […]Read More
LEAP, the legal practice management software provider, is delivering a series of informative digital discussions aimed at helping law firms survive and thrive after the pandemic. The five webinars will be delivered by industry experts, such as Rob Hailstone of the Bold Group, who will be joined by representatives of law firms and LEAP experts. […]Read More
Legal practice management system provider LEAP announces a new technology partnership whereby conveyancers using LEAP software provide their services to property builders via the Yourkeys digital platform. Yourkeys helps to speed up the conveyancing process for home builders by effectively tracking sales and qualifying and onboarding buyers. By supporting Yourkeys’ objectives of delivering greater transparency, […]Read More
Craig Taylor Director of Relationship Development at LEAP comments on the Government’s plan to raise stamp duty to £500k: “The government’s recent announcement relating to stamp duty will provide a much needed boost to the property market and wider economy, fuelling a resurgence in activity levels and providing certainty at this crucial juncture. Speaking to […]Read More
The thought of setting up a new law firm during a global pandemic may seem irrational, cavalier and high risk. However, in such a world-changing event, as with any global crisis, the winners will be those who adapt the quickest and realise the change rather than resist it. To paraphrase Charles Darwin, it is not […]Read More