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Here come the brands: AA applies for ABS licence…
Wednesday, 3 October 2012The AA has applied for an alternative business structure licence, Legal Futures can reveal. It follows the success of the motoring giant’s online legal document service, which was launched two years ago.
Tags: ABS, Alternative business structures, consumer brands
Posted in Alternative business structures, Latest news, Market monitor
Co-op to recruit 3,000 staff as it bids to dominate consumer legal market
Thursday, 24 May 2012The Co-operative Group has today announced plans to create 3,000 jobs in the legal sector as it laid out its ambitions to create the largest consumer law business in the country. It will also offer face-to-face advice in all 330 of its bank branches.
Tags: ABS, Alternative business structures, Co-op, consumer brands
Posted in Alternative business structures, Latest news, Market monitor
Survey: home-movers not keen on big brands for conveyancing – high street solicitors do the job
Thursday, 8 December 2011Consumers are generally happy with high street conveyancers and by contrast very cool about the idea of going to a big brand to help them move house, a major new opinion poll has found. YouGov surveyed 1,959 people who had bought a house in the last two years.
Tags: consumer brands, conveyancing
Posted in Alternative business structures, Market monitor, News
In-Deed: we will invest in law firms to build consumer legal brand
Thursday, 10 November 2011AIM-listed In-Deed has today become the first business to announce its explicit intention to invest in law firms. The company is looking for approaches from “successful and profitable provincial legal practices” to help make In-Deed a leading consumer legal brand.
Tags: ABS, Alternative business structures, consumer brands, conveyancing, personal injury
Posted in Market monitor, News
Mayson: clients may not be as keen on using local law firms as they make out
Tuesday, 25 October 2011Solicitors should not rely on clients who express a desire for local, personal services, Professor Stephen Mayson has warned. He also said the “insulting” distinction in law firms between fee-earners and support staff is holding them back.
Tags: ABS, Alternative business structures, consumer brands
Posted in Alternative business structures, News
Saga markets probate service with dig at lawyers “exploiting bereaved people”
Tuesday, 19 July 2011Some lawyers and financial advisers may be exploiting bereaved families by overcharging for probate, over-50s organisation Saga has suggested – pointing consumers to its own, cheaper, legal services arm instead. It says it will charge 1% of the estate, compared to up to 5% by other providers.
Tags: consumer brands
Posted in Market monitor, News
QualitySolicitors hits the shopping centres as 54 new branches open, with 50 more to come
Wednesday, 10 November 2010National law firm group QualitySolicitors (QS) is opening 54 new branches across England and Wales on Thursday, including what it says is the first ever legal store in a shopping centre. Claiming the store will be “the start of a revolution in legal services”, QualitySolicitors Freeman Harris in Lewisham shopping centre, south London, will offer free initial consultations, late-night opening on Thursdays as well as weekend opening, and fixed-priced services, including “instant wills” drafted while clients finish their shopping.
Tags: consumer brands, QualitySolicitors
Posted in Market monitor, News
Still hanging on the telephone?
Monday, 8 February 2010As a journalist, one is often inveigled into meeting all sorts of people who want to sell stuff to lawyers. I generally don’t mind this, as I am able to find almost anything at least a little bit interesting when I set my mind to it.
Tags: consumer brands, outsourcing
Posted in Blog
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Succession (Season 5) – Santa looks to the future
It’s time for the annual Christmas blog from Nigel Wallis, consultant at Legal Futures Associate O’Connors Legal Services.
The COLP and management 12 days of Christmas checklist
Leading up to Christmas this year, it might be a quieter time to reflect on trends, issues and regulation, and how they might impact your firm.
The next wave of AI: what’s really coming in 2025
The most exciting battle in artificial intelligence isn’t unfolding in corporate labs; it’s happening in the open-source community.
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