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‘eBay for lawyers’ goes live as new services target intra-profession referrals
Thursday, 23 February 2012Two lawyer-to-lawyer referral services have gone live. ReferMarket and Lawyer to Lawyer both aim to help firms realise the value of cases they cannot for whatever reason handle themselves, but do so in very different ways.
Tags: referrals
Posted in Latest news, Market monitor
Innovation and teamwork are “key to ABS survival”
Monday, 24 October 2011Creativity and collaboration should be the priority for law firms looking to fend off the threats from a liberated legal market, with joint ventures, referral networks and share offerings all possible solutions, last week’s Legal Futures conference was told.
Tags: ABS, Alternative business structures, joint ventures, referrals
Posted in Alternative business structures, News
Manchester law firm launches lawyer-to-lawyer referral network
Friday, 30 September 2011Around 50 law firms in the north-west have signed up to a new scheme from Manchester practice JMW aimed at lawyer-to-lawyer referrals. Lawshare offers firms in the network a 7-10% profit share for every case referred to JMW.
Tags: referrals
Posted in Market monitor, News
QS generating 100,000 leads a month, but many enquiry services fail, says report
Friday, 23 September 2011QualitySolicitors is generating nearly 100,000 leads per month for its member firms, pioneering research into find-a-solicitor type services has revealed, while around a fifth of such businesses have disappeared since 2010.
Tags: price comparison, QualitySolicitors, referrals
Posted in Market monitor, Marketing & PR, News
Top Google site offers web users free answer to legal question from solicitor in 60 minutes
Wednesday, 27 July 2011A new online service that allows potential clients to ask solicitors a question for free – and get a response within an hour – is set to launch to the profession shortly. The website, www.rightsolicitor.co.uk, already ranks at the top of Google behind only the Law Society for the words ‘solicitor’ and ‘solicitors’.
Tags: referrals
Posted in Market monitor, News
LSB: no blanket ban on referral fees, but individual regulators can still introduce one
Friday, 27 May 2011There should be no general ban on referral fees, but individual frontline regulators are free to impose one for their part of the legal market if they can justify it, the Legal Services Board has concluded. It said transparency needs improving but there is little evidence of “actual or potential harm”.
Tags: Legal Services Board, referral fees, referrals
Posted in Legal Services Board, News, Regulation
Regulator announces crackdown on CMCs cold-calling and taking up-front fees
Friday, 27 August 2010The claims management regulator has launched a crackdown on companies that are cold-calling consumers and taking up-front fees without giving clients a reasonable period to consider the agreement they are signing.
Tags: claims management companies, referrals
Posted in News, Solicitors
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