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Leading conveyancing firm buys fellow ABS
Tuesday, 25 February 2014Countrywide Conveyancing Services – an alternative business structure (ABS) that is one of the country’s largest conveyancing outfits – has issued a statement of its intent to grow by buying another leading property law firm.
Tags: ABS, Alternative business structures, conveyancing, Council for Licensed Conveyancers
Posted in Latest news, Market monitor
Lender panel data scheme heads for launch despite solicitors’ worries
Friday, 21 February 2014A privately run portal that will centralise conveyancing panel member firms’ information on behalf of participating mortgage lenders, is gearing up for launch amid controversy fuelled by Law Society reservations about the scheme.
Tags: conveyancing, conveyancing quality scheme, CQS
Posted in Latest news
In-Deed brand acquisition aimed at building up online property panel
Tuesday, 10 December 2013The In-Deed conveyancing brand has been acquired by the owner of an online property panel – the final step in the dissolution of the country’s first alternative business structure (ABS) failure.
Tags: conveyancing, Online Legal Services
Posted in Alternative business structures, Latest news, Market monitor
Scots lawyers decide they don’t want separate representation after all
Tuesday, 24 September 2013Scottish conveyancers have voted against the introduction of separate representation for borrowers and lenders – having initially called for it. At an SGM of the Law Society of Scotland yesterday, 847 were against a rule change to the conflict of interest rules while 671 were in favour.
Tags: conveyancing, Scotland, separate representation
Posted in Latest news, Solicitors
Top conveyancing firm warns of separate representation “calamity”
Friday, 20 September 2013Scotland’s largest law firm conveyancer has entered the separate representation debate, critiquing the move as “politically motivated, opportunistic, regressive” and “anti-competitive”, and a “calamity” for solicitors and consumers.
Tags: conveyancing, separate representation
Posted in Latest news
Strong results for the UK’s first ABS
Wednesday, 18 September 2013The country’s first alternative business structure and largest conveyancing business revealed strong annual results yesterday. Premier Property Lawyers – which became an ABS on 6 October 2011 – is part of My Home Move, which also has a panel management operation.
Tags: conveyancing
Posted in Alternative business structures, Latest news, Market monitor
Call to end “double regulation” of conveyancers through CQS and lender criteria
Thursday, 5 September 2013The Law Society’s conveyancing quality scheme and lender-specific requirements amount to double regulation of lawyers and there needs to be a sector-wide effort to resolve the problem, the Council for Licensed Conveyancers has urged.
Tags: conveyancing, Council for Licensed Conveyancers, licensed conveyancers
Posted in Latest news, Other lawyers
Earnings up sharply at leading conveyancing ABS
Monday, 5 August 2013Countrywide plc has reported a “promising first half trading performance” for its conveyancing division, with income up 4% and earnings 12%. Countrywide Property Lawyers is an alternative business structure regulated by the Council for Licensed Conveyancers.
Tags: ABS, Alternative business structures, conveyancing, Council for Licensed Conveyancers
Posted in Latest news, Market monitor
Survey: conveyancers more worried by lenders than ABSs
Thursday, 13 June 2013Lender panels, rather than alternative business structures (ABSs), are the main threat to conveyancing businesses, new research has found. Interest among conveyancers in becoming an ABS also appears to be falling.
Tags: conveyancing
Posted in Alternative business structures, Latest news
ETSOS celebrates QRS birthday with new milestone
Wednesday, 5 June 2013Online search provider and conveyancing technology specialist, ETSOS, is celebrating the first birthday of its free-to-use Quotation & Referral System (QRS) with news that monthly usage levels have more than trebled in the past six months.
Tags: conveyancing, costs
Posted in associate news
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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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