by Rob | Mar 10, 2016 | News
The Law Firm Services Conveyancing Conference & Awards, which are in their 5th year, are now accepting entries for 2016.
by Rob | Mar 10, 2016 | News
The SRA has confirmed that there will be no extension to arrangements providing insurance cover for closed firms beyond the current six-year run-off period.
by Rob | Mar 9, 2016 | News
Richard Hugo-Hamman has called on small law firms to get their act together to make themselves more profitable by ditching panel managers.
by Rob | Mar 8, 2016 | News
The SRA will be holding a free conference this month exploring new ideas and innovations in the legal sector.
by Rob | Mar 7, 2016 | News
A centre-right think tank founded by Tory former planning minister Nick Boles is urging a review of stamp duty to link it to the energy efficiency of each home.
by Rob | Mar 7, 2016 | News
The Association of British Insurers (ABI) is setting out its top five tips to help homeowners who live in flood risk areas get affordable home insurance, as a new scheme prepares to launch in just one month’s time.
by Rob | Mar 7, 2016 | News
The Legal Ombudsman has published advice on how best to keep clients on side during the conveyancing process.
by Rob | Mar 7, 2016 | News
South-west firm Stephens Scown LLP is to operate under a John Lewis-style shared-ownership model, which will see receptionists receiving the same bonus as fee-earners, it revealed today.
by Rob | Mar 3, 2016 | News
Builders have broken ground on My Home Move’s new £6 million conveyancing headquarters.
by Rob | Mar 3, 2016 | News
The first academic study of compliance officers for legal practice has found a “tendency” not to report regulatory failures to the Solicitors Regulation Authority.
by Rob | Mar 3, 2016 | News
NAHL Group – the business that owns the National Accident Helpline – has accelerated its march into conveyancing with the launch of a legal comparison site launch.
by Rob | Mar 3, 2016 | News
Lawyers could face new demands to inform clients about how to complain amid concerns that too many consumers are still in the dark about where to turn.
by Rob | Mar 2, 2016 | News
The Law Society could be about to lose practising fee funding with the Ministry of Justice saying they intend for lawyers to no longer be required to make a financial contribution to their representative body.
by Rob | Mar 2, 2016 | News
Conveyancers could be in for more stamp duty shocks after chancellor George Osborne pledged to continue taking ‘bold action’ on home ownership.
by Rob | Mar 1, 2016 | News
Is the average estate agent is taking home twice as much as the average conveyancer?
by Rob | Feb 29, 2016 | News
The Ministry of Justice has given its strongest indication yet that, once the legal regulators become independent, lawyers will no longer be compelled to make a financial contribution to their representative bodies.
by Rob | Feb 26, 2016 | News
Paul Smith, CEO of estate agents haart says a shortage of conveyancers is holding up transactions with a long backlog starting to develop.
by Rob | Feb 26, 2016 | News
The Solicitors Regulation Authority has asked the House of Commons’ justice select committee to assume responsibility for holding it to account once independence from the Law Society has been achieved.
by Rob | Feb 26, 2016 | News
A roundup of money-laundering cases recently reported in the national media.
by Rob | Feb 25, 2016 | News
The Conveyancing Association, the leading trade body for the conveyancing industry, has announced the launch of its new Conveyancing Progression Training Course for both estate agents and mortgage brokers.
