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PG Legal are a firm based in Gateshead in the North East of England, providing services both regionally and UK wide. The firm specialises in commercial areas of law including Commercial Conveyancing, Dispute Resolution, Employment, and Corporate matters and more recently expanding their offering to include personal legal services such as Residential Property and Wills and Probate.

LexisNexis® Legal & Professional, a leading global provider of information and analytics, today announced the launch of Law360’s new generation of audio articles to keep legal professionals informed. Using advanced text-to-speech technology, written articles are turned into audio stories for busy legal professionals.  This means subscribers can now listen to written Law360 articles on the go.

When it comes to choosing a case management software for your law firm, Clio knows that your time is precious and that every firm’s needs are unique. That’s certainly the case for one Middlesbrough firm, the Immigration Advice Centre. They switched to Clio after first trying a variety of software solutions to manage their caseloads and their billing processes. While those other case management software solutions proved costly, hard to manage, or time-consuming, Clio has changed the way the firm works.

Quill’s comprehensive accounts and practice management software now tightly integrates with leading client lifecycle management and payments tool provider, Legl.

Jess Leighton leads Moneypenny’s team of legal live chat handlers. Here she lifts the lid on the sort of conversations she and her team manage for more than 100 legal live chat clients and explains how to make live chat a successful customer care and lead capture tool.

When the Covid-19 pandemic triggered national lockdown, Axis Professional responded by switching to fully hybrid, flexible working. But the physical post coming to the office never stopped and soon sucked up valuable time. To address this, Axis turned to Quill’s virtual post room service, which not only freed up directors’ time and reduced spend but helped the professional services practice in its mission to become paperless.

Following the recent announcement from HM Land Registry requiring all register update applications to be submitted digitally from November 2022, Andrew Lloyd, Managing Director at Search Acumen comments on what this will mean for the conveyancing industry, including the potential for a half an hour of processing time to be saved per transaction.

More than two thirds (67%) of senior commercial property law professionals believe it will be very likely that administrative tasks relating to the legal transaction process for commercial real estate deals will be fully automated within the next three years.

Quill Post is a digital mailroom service to help small to medium-sized UK businesses modernise their post room, go paperless and accelerate digital transformation.

The total amount of UK legacy income increased from £800m in 1990 to £3bn in 2020, a doubling in value in real terms, and the new figures show the predicted income by the start of the new decade.