associate news

UK average house prices increased by 9.6% over the year to January 2022, down from 10.0% in December 2021. The average UK house price was £274,000 in January 2022, which is £24,000 higher than this time last year.

InfoTrack has been crowned ‘Technology Enabler of the Year’ at the prestigious British Conveyancing Awards held on 15th March 2022. Awarded for their contribution to the digitalisation of the conveyancing sector, InfoTrack’s eCOS (electronic client onboarding solution) beat the competition to take the title in 2022.

Miller Insurance, the leading independent specialist (re)insurance broker, announces the appointment of Sam Pye as Account Executive in its Solicitors Professional Indemnity (PI) team. Sam joined the team on 21 March and will report into Head of Solicitors PI, Zarina Lawley.

It is common to believe that in order to translate documents or statements, you simply need someone who is bilingual. However, even though being bilingual or even multilingual is an important part of being a translator, there is a significant amount of additional skill and expertise that is required. In this post, we look at the importance of using a skilled translator for legal translation and the key skills that professional translators possess. 

Law Firm Services (LFS), with Minerva, Intelligent Client Onboarding, have continued to bounce into 2022 with a bang and are thrilled to announce that Index Property Information is now a strategic partner.

Ahead of the Chancellor’s Spring Statement on 23 March 2022, Purbeck Personal Guarantee Insurance is urging Rishi Sunak to consider key measures to support small businesses following news that company insolvencies doubled in February.

Earlier this month, the ICO handed down a fine of almost £100,000 to a top criminal law firm whose IT compliance was found wanting and it suffered a ransomware attack. 

Redbrick Solutions have announced the release of the latest version of their award-winning case management solution. The launch of the 24th version of Redbrick Practice Management includes a number of enhancements, functionality and new integration to benefit clients and assist them in offering quality legal services.

I often hear commercial dispute resolution practitioners, unlike their personal injury and clinical negligence colleagues, say “Our clients are not interested in ATE Insurance or disbursement funding because they can afford to pay disbursements and bear the opponents costs if the case is unsuccessful”. I have a few things to say about this view.

Conveyancing and probate law firm, McCloy Legal, uses specialist practice management software to control cases and documents, and integrates with Quill for legal accounts. Having successfully completed her financial year end and quarter end VAT periods with Quill and its previous accounting system in tandem, Annette Goody now utilises Quill as her go-to legal accounts tool.