Referrals: What makes a good conveyancer? (EAT)
A study of 166 agents showed that a culture of free referrals means that 62% do not receive a penny for referrals they make, while 18% have not tried to […]
Bank warns that London’s property market is world’s biggest housing bubble (PIE)
A new report warns that London’s property market is at huge risk of being a bubble.
Keeping the property department on its toes (SJ)
Lest anyone should still be under any illusions, it is an undeniable fact that the prevention of money laundering, and the risk associated with the often overlapping topic of terrorist […]
The CPD hour is dead. Long live CPD! (LF)
Halloween 2015 will mark the beginning of the end of the hours-based CPD year.
Join them to beat them: Law Society urges firms to use ABS to compete with accountants (LF)
Rather than feeling threatened by accountants’ move into legal services, law firms should set up alternative business structures and compete with them, the president of the Law Society has said.
Consolidator ready to acquire law firms armed with £4m war chest (LSG)
A firm with ambitions to buy 60 high street practices by 2020 has secured funding for a new year shopping spree.
Land Registry says 10% slump in sales but prices up 5.3% over a year (EAT)
The Land Registry says the average house price in England and Wales now costs £186,553, an annual increase of 5.3 per cent.
SRA: clients may not need “detailed information” where work is referred to firms’ separate businesses (LF)
Clients may not need detailed information about separate businesses when work is referred to them by their law firm owners, the Solicitors Regulation Authority has said.
Free2Convey to be available “in next few weeks” (LF)
Free2Convey, the free conveyancing portal developed by the Legal Software Suppliers Association, is to be available “in the next few weeks”, it has emerged.
Ofcom director appointed LSB chief executive (LSG)
A senior figure at communications regulator Ofcom has been appointed chief executive of the Legal Services Board.
Sampson threatens legal action over ‘clarification’ to MPs (LSG)
Lawyers acting for Adam Sampson, the former chief legal ombudsman, have written to the Office for Legal Complaints threatening action for defamation over a letter to MPs stating that Sampson […]
SRA helps law firms provide more services to consumers
The Solicitors Regulation Authority is helping law firms that want to expand their business beyond traditional legal services by publishing new guidance on the Separate Business Rule.