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Exclusive: leading volume conveyancer goes into administration
Friday, 7 January 2011One of the country’s leading volume conveyancing firms has gone into administration following the abolition of home information packs, Legal Futures can reveal. While Fridays Property Lawyers Ltd – a licensed conveyancing firm which recently began offering probate services too – has been sold in a pre-packaged sale, there have been an unknown number of redundancies.
Tags: conveyancing, Council for Licensed Conveyancers, licensed conveyancers
Posted in News
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
Property slump hits licensed conveyancers
Tuesday, 31 August 2010The property slump has had a major impact on the ranks of licensed conveyancers, with the number of students more than halving in just two years. But they are starting to take up their new probate rights.
Tags: Alternative business structures, Council for Licensed Conveyancers, licensed conveyancers, probate, reserved legal activities
Posted in News, Other lawyers
Licensed conveyancers seek litigation rights
Tuesday, 16 February 2010The Council for Licensed Conveyancers (CLC) is set to apply to the Legal Services Board for the power to grant rights of audience and rights to conduct litigation to licensed conveyancers. It is part of a package of measures aimed at putting the CLC in the position to apply to become an alternative business structures licensing authority.
Tags: licensed conveyancers, reserved activities, rights of audience
Posted in Alternative business structures, Latest news, Other lawyers, Regulation
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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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