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Conveyancers have been unusually busy for the last 18 months, but at some point (and arguably for many this has already happened) the rate of transactions will slow down and there will inevitably be a shift in focus to looking at how firms can generate more conveyancing work. The process needs to be simple and easy for firms to adopt so it doesn’t just feel like extra work.

This is a crucial time for many law firms across the country as they develop their post-pandemic strategies, and research we have undertaken has shown that merger and acquisition (M&A) activity will form a significant part of their thinking. Our in-depth research with 100 law firms of varying sizes conducted by IRN Research indicates that firms feel they need to move faster than organic growth allows. However, it also finds that they often have a dangerously ad hoc approach to identifying targets for M&A.

The winter 2022 edition of Title Research’s news digest, Entitlement, is now available and free to download. Entitlement’s latest edition features the following informative articles on current popular topics in the legal industry…

The Court of Appeal handed down judgment on 13 January in Paul v The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust. Paul is a clinical negligence claim against the defendant for Mr Paul’s death and a psychiatric injury claim for his daughters (the secondary victim claimants) who witnessed their father’s heart attack and death.

tmgroup are celebrating 4 years of supporting conveyancers with digital AP1 submissions, via their integrated Post-Completion services – launched back in 2018 for Residential and Commercial property teams.

Practice and Case Management Software (PCMS) provides law firms with the digital tools to run their practice effectively. The software provides efficiency-boosting features and functionality that help to standardise, streamline, and automate time-consuming processes, enabling your lawyers to focus on delivering a high-quality service to their clients whilst maximising billable hours.

Hudgell Solicitors’ founder and executive chairman Neil Hudgell has marked the firm’s 25th year in business by setting his sights on becoming involved in more cases where his firm can ‘make a difference’ in matters of national importance.

Before Casedo, I went paperless in 2007 when ScanSnap arrived with an Acrobat Pro licence. I would scan in my paper brief and just use my scan. This saved my back from lugging trolley bags around. I got used to Acrobat but it is a monster of a programme, inefficient and resources hungry.

SearchFlow – one of the UK’s largest providers of legal due diligence data for residential and commercial property transactions – is delighted to announce it has been awarded a contract worth £30 million by the Communities & Housing Investment Consortium (CHIC), to provide a comprehensive Conveyancing Framework for CHIC’s membership of over 200 residential providers and local authorities.

It takes an average eight calls to reach a prospect – so it’s easy to see why outbound calling can feel frustrating, or even thankless, and why it may even fall off the to-do lists of your team. But with the new year well and truly underway – it’s important to ensure your legal firm is doing all it can to supercharges its sales efforts, and that means getting a head start with outbound calls.