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The LEAP Best Practice Standard for conveyancers was set-up four years ago as an accreditation mark of excellence achieved by law firms using LEAP’s innovative technology. Through its use of independent, remote and specialist audits, achievement of the standard shows clients and stakeholders that law firms deliver a gold standard of legal work in conveyancing whilst using the most up to date and innovative legal technology.

CTS, the legal sector’s provider of cloud and IT services specifically shaped for law, and Tessian, the market leader in advanced email security, have come together in a newly formed partnership. The aim of this partnership is to offer significant value to the legal sector by providing advanced email security that has the ability to continually analyse, adapt and evolve based on an understanding of normal and anomalous human behaviour.

New rules making it easier for commercial buildings to be converted into residential homes have come in to force this month. As part of government plans designed to revitalise the UK’s beleaguered high streets, it’s now possible to transform an unused commercial building such as a former shop or café into a home without going through a lengthy planning application process first.

iManage, the company dedicated to Making Knowledge WorkTM, today announced strong growth in the company’s cloud services business. Organisations modernising their IT infrastructures and systems to support new needs of knowledge workers and the evolving demands of clients have adopted iManage Cloud to drive increased business agility, knowledge worker productivity, and enhanced security and governance over critical business information.

Local lawyers raised nearly £85,000 for local frontline free legal advice charities in the South-East of England at Legal Walks over the summer. This amazing amount has boosted morale for charities who support people facing increasing hardships such as unemployment, homelessness, and domestic violence, on a daily basis.

Following on from implementation of Lawyer 365 in April 2021, Starck Uberoi Solicitors’ clients can now verify their identity and have an end-to-end digital application experience through the integration of online ID verification app Verify 365.

As conveyancers juggle bigger caseloads than ever before, the volume of inbound communications have hit an all time high. Alongside chaser calls from clients requesting an update on their sale or purchase, are those from new clients struggling to complete… Read More

Tower Street Finance’s Dicky Davies on recent survey results around time off work for bereavement, and why it’s important to provide an outlet for those who need it…

The latest UK monthly property transactions data shows that the provisional seasonally adjusted estimate of UK residential transactions in July 2021 is 73,740, up 4.2% from July 2020 but down 62.8% from June 2021

iManage, the company dedicated to Making Knowledge WorkTM, today announced new digital signature capabilities for iManage Closing Folders that continue to modernise the management and governance of agreements in the cloud. The company’s latest integration with DocuSign eSignature, part of the DocuSign Agreement Cloud, enables lawyers using Closing Folders for deal closings to use advanced levels of e-signatures. These signatures meet the highest level of security services under the European law, eIDAS (Electronic Identification, Authentication and Trust Services).