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After an in-depth selection process involving a number of suppliers, Lanyon Bowdler have chosen to replace their existing Legal Business Management systems with rapidly growing technology provider, PracticeEvolve.

A search for the most promising legal talent of 2021 is now underway. The Future Legal Mind Award is run annually by National Accident Helpline to find the UK’s brightest legal prospect. Now in its seventh year, the competition is open to law students and to legal trainees who are within the first two years of their careers.

SearchFlow – the UK’s largest provider of legal due diligence data for residential and commercial property transactions – has announced that Lifetime Legal has adopted its innovative Continuity Property Solution to provide its panel with a viable alternative to traditional search packs, and therefore speed-up the overall residential conveyancing process.

Growing law firm, Milnes Legal, is implementing the Compact+ practice management solution from Eclipse Legal Systems, the UK’s leading legal software provider. 

OneSearch Direct, the largest local search data company in the UK, has reached its highest peak quarter since the abolishment of HIPs in 2010. In September 2020, the property data provider processed 93% more regulated local authority searches and an astonishing 127% more drainage & water reports than in September 2019.

ReviewSolicitors has seen an upsurge in demand from law firms joining the review site. It now boasts over 1800 law firms collecting reviews through the platform and over 4 million users annually. The site is reinventing the way solicitors are instructed, with clients moving away from traditional word-of-mouth referrals and turning to the internet to make their decision, especially as people reduce their face-to-face interactions following the pandemic.

In an increasingly litigious society Will disputes are relatively common. At the core of these disputes often lie entrenched disagreements between family members, which can give rise to suspicion over the handling of a loved one’s affairs prior to their death.

In response to media reports of a conveyancing ‘log-jam’ and increasing delays to property transaction completion, resulting from the Stamp Duty Land Tax holiday deadline and an upsurge in demand, SearchFlow is urging property lawyers to consider data-driven alternatives to traditional search packs as a viable means to keep transactions flowing.

Andy Sommerville, Director of Search Acumen, comments: “This latest data reveals the scale of the damaging impact that strict lockdown measures and the showdown of building sites had on the construction sector.

LexisNexis Enterprise Solutions and Maluma Solutions today announced a formal partnership to assist LexisNexis Visualfiles customers overcome problems associated with legacy data management.