Internet overtakes friends and family as main way to find a solicitor (LF)
Clients are significantly more likely to find a solicitor through the internet than by asking friends or family, a major study of over 2,000 people has found.
Accountants able to handle probate work without solicitors from next month (LF)
Chartered accountants will be able to carry out reserved probate work themselves, without the need to instruct a solicitor, from next month, the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and […]
Still in business (in 2024) (LSG)
Law firm leaders have to realise that the marketplace is increasingly commercial and must respond. Otherwise, failure beckons, writes the chief executive of QualitySolicitors.
Balva policyholders given new hope of compensation (LSG)
Policyholders with Latvian insurer Balva have been given fresh hope of making a successful claim for compensation.
MPs grill Lloyds executive over ‘law firm’ debt letters (LSG)
MPs today lambasted a banking chief over ‘sham’ letters to lenders that purported to be from a solicitor’s firm.
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Agents’ Mutual announces name of its portal (PIE)
Agents’ Mutual is this morning announcing the name of the portal it will be launching next January – On the Market.
Young voters don’t know what Help To Buy is (EAT)
Get ready to use a defibrillator on David Cameron – just as he reshuffles the cabinet to become more media-savvy and in touch with the community, so it has been […]
Housing gets promoted in latest reshuffle (EAT)
The appointment of Brandon Lewis as housing and planning minister in David Cameron’s reshuffle signifies a serious elevation for housing in the current government.
MMR still causing major delays, say agents (EAT)
Agents are reporting that even now, many weeks after the introduction, the rigorous and long-winded questioning process at the heart of the Mortgage Market Review is still causing horrendous delays.
“No new house price curbs” promises Carney (EAT)
Breathe a sigh of relief – Bank of England governor Mark Carney says there are no new measures which he has left to intervene in the housing market.
MPs quiz banks over bogus law firms (LF)
The row over banks sending letters to customers in debt that falsely appear to be from independent solicitors’ firms, rather than their in-house lawyers, is set to rumble on.