associate news

The UK’s leading outsourcing communications provider, Moneypenny is celebrating a decade of supporting law firms. In 2008 the award-winning company created its first team of legal receptionists to solely answer calls on behalf of legal practices.

The Q1 2018 edition of Search Acumen’s Conveyancing Market Tracker reveals that total transaction volumes over the three-month period reached 271,546. This was 12% higher than Q4 2017 (241,666), and the highest number recorded since Q2 2016 (286,485) – a strong response after the Q4 2017 Market Tracker which revealed that, over the whole of 2017, the market saw the first annual drop in transaction volumes in six years.

Much like Game of Thrones, the latest handbook plans from the SRA have plenty of strategic intrigue, a long political backstory, and ancient traditions at stake. Will winter come for the average high street firm, or will the barriers to entry of the legal services market (let’s call it ‘The Wall’) keep them out?

If you’re familiar with the daytime programme, Heir Hunters, you’ll have an idea of what we do, writes Danny Curran, founder and managing director of Finders International.

CILEx Law School’s Apprenticeship Recruitment Manager Kathryn Jack has been selected to join the Institute for Apprenticeship’s Apprentice Panel. The Institute was seeking current or recent apprentices to join the Panel. The newly appointed Panel will draw on their experiences to have a say on changes to policies which affect current and future apprentices.

Seal Software, the leading provider of Contract Discovery and Analytics solutions is pleased to announce it received the award for Outstanding Data Analytics Solution at Computing’s annual Big Data Excellence award ceremony on Thursday night at the De Vere Grand Connaught Rooms in London.

During Mental Health Awareness Week 2018, Paul McCluskey, UK Head of Professional Practices, SME Banking at Lloyds Bank, tells us how stress is affecting the legal services sector.

DPS Software held their annual user group meeting at the IBM Client Centre in Central London this month.

We are delighted to welcome this month’s speakers Tony Pearce and Mark Abrol to the next instalment of Certainty Expert Webinars taking place on Friday 25th May 2018 at 12.00pm.

Residential conveyancing and property law firm, Fletcher Longstaff Limited, is deploying legal workflow and case management solution, Lexis® Visualfiles™ to improve productivity and hence profitability. By streamlining and automating business processes – from quote development through to completion of conveyancing transactions – Fletcher Longstaff will achieve time savings and efficiency gains that will improve productivity and enable the business to easily scale in tune with strategic objectives.