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Law Society to unveil £4m conveyancing quality scheme to head off competition
Tuesday, 5 October 2010The Law Society will this month unveil a £4m conveyancing quality scheme that aims to help solicitors maintain market share and improve profitability. At the centre of the scheme will be an updated conveyancing protocol to which all members will have to adhere from 1 April 2011, alongside core practice management standards.
Tags: conveyancing, Law Society
Posted in News, Solicitors
Conveyancing Association launches to lobby over lender panels and prepare for ABSs
Sunday, 26 September 2010Volume conveyancers are reaching out to all “serious” conveyancing practitioners in a bid to form a new representative body for the sector. The Conveyancing Association – which has grown out of the Direct Conveyancing Association – launches today with a rallying call against restricted lender panels and for conveyancers to respond to the impending challenge of alternative business structures.
Tags: ABS, Alternative business structures, conveyancing, licensed conveyancers
Posted in Alternative business structures, Other lawyers, Solicitors
Be afraid. Be very afraid. And then do something about it
Thursday, 23 September 2010What has struck me from the various conversations I’ve had of late is that though we are still more than a year away from alternative business structures (ABSs), there is already an awful lot going on out there. Those lawyers who think that I and others are exaggerating or scaremongering when we report on threats to the traditional practice of law should meet some of these people. It really is happening.
Tags: ABS, Alternative business structures, conveyancing, personal injury, probate
Posted in Blog
CML and Law Society committee look at making title insurance compulsory
Monday, 13 September 2010The Council of Mortgage Lenders is investigating the case for making title insurance compulsory for all conveyancing transactions, it has emerged, as a Law Society committee said it should be looked at as a way to reduce solicitors’ professional indemnity insurance premiums.
Tags: conveyancing, Law Society, Solicitors
Posted in Indemnity insurance, News, Solicitors
Revealed: SRA complaints sparked Law Society guidance on “headline pricing”
Wednesday, 1 September 2010Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) complaints two years ago about the way some conveyancing law firms were advertising their prices led the Law Society to issue guidance last week on “headline pricing”, Legal Futures has discovered.
Tags: conveyancing, headline pricing, Solicitors Regulation Authority
Posted in Marketing & PR, News, Solicitors
Consumer panel: conveyancers should have more freedom to act for both buyer and seller
Thursday, 5 August 2010Conveyancers should be allowed to act for both seller and buyer far more regularly than is currently permitted, the Legal Services Consumer Panel has said. They should also be required to include non-optional costs in their upfront fees.
Tags: conveyancing, Legal Services Consumer Panel
Posted in Consumer panel, 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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