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Rightmove founder vows to dominate online conveyancing market in three years
Monday, 23 May 2011The founder of property website Rightmove enters the law today with the intention of making his online conveyancing service the market leader within three years, Legal Futures can reveal. It is being marketed on the basis of service quality, rather than price.
Tags: conveyancing, conveyancing quality scheme, licensed conveyancers
Posted in Client care, Market monitor, News
Rising fraud means open conveyancing panels are at an end, warns CML chief
Friday, 13 May 2011The growth of property fraud means that lenders’ open panels of conveyancing firms are at an end, the director-general of the Council of Mortgage Lenders has warned. Michael Coogan added that lenders remain unsure about the impact of the Conveyancing Quality Scheme.
Tags: conveyancing, conveyancing quality scheme, CQS, mortgage fraud
Posted in News
What’s accreditation got to do with it?
Thursday, 12 May 2011Allan Carton of Inpractice UK argues that achieving Lexcel and CQS are essential but can only take you so far. Adopting the Investors in People philosophy will add genuine competitive advantage.
Tags: conveyancing quality scheme, CQS, Investors in People, Lexcel
Posted in Features, News
News in brief: solicitors, barristers and referrers link up, conveyancing boost and more
Friday, 6 May 2011This week’s news in brief includes details of London law firm EDC Lord & Co, barristers’ chambers 6 Pump Court and referral agency Contact Law launching an online fixed-fee legal advice scheme, ClickLaw24.com.
Tags: ABS, Alternative business structures, Bar Council, conveyancing quality scheme, CQS, Law Society, Legal Ombudsman, LeO, Online Legal Services, outcomes-focused regulation, Solicitors Regulation Authority
Posted in Legal Ombudsman, Market monitor, News, News In Brief
Revealed: nearly 350 firms apply for Conveyancing Quality Scheme
Wednesday, 23 February 2011Some 342 law firms have applied to join the Conveyancing Quality Scheme (CQS) since it opened last month, the Law Society has revealed to Legal Futures. A spokesman said the number is growing rapidly, with around 20 new applications a day at the moment.
Tags: conveyancing, conveyancing quality scheme, CQS, Law Society
Posted in Client care, Market monitor, News, Solicitors
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Five key issues to consider when adopting an AI-based legal tech
As generative AI starts to play a bigger role in our working lives, there are some key issues that your law firm needs to consider when adopting an AI-based legal tech.
Bulk litigation – not always working in consumers interests
For consumers to get the benefit, bulk litigation needs to be done well, and we are increasingly concerned that there are significant problems in some areas of this market.
ABSs, cost and audits – fixing regulation after Axiom Ince
A feature of law firm collapses and frauds has sometimes been the over-concentration of power in outdated and overburdened systems of control.
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