associate news

We are delighted to welcome Gill Steel, Private Client Specialist, LawSkills, who will be presenting the next instalment of Certainty Expert Webinar. The webinar is taking place on Thursday 25th May at 1:00pm and the title is Re-boot your Probate Practice in 2017.

Search Acumen, the conveyancing search provider, has designed and launched a new online quotation tool for conveyancers to quickly and accurately calculate the fees associated with a sale or purchase of a property for their customers.

Homecheck Flood and FloodSolutions Consult protect homebuyers with easy to understand property flood risk information, mapping and assessments

The SRA code of conduct requires all practitioners to “always have regard to the Principles and use them as your starting point when faced with an ethical dilemma” yet there is precious little practical guidance as to how to implement an ethical process when dealing with compliance problems.

CILEx vice-president Millicent Grant gave evidence to the House of Lords Constitution Committee in March during an inquiry on judicial appointments.

“The squeeze on affordability appears to be continuing as today’s statistics from HMRC reveal that Q1 2017 saw a 39% drop in transactions that were not liable for stamp duty land tax. Prospective buyers are being priced out of the market by surging house prices and a decrease in transactions with low tax thresholds is symptomatic of the housing crisis that burns on.

Legal Eye, a subsidiary of the ULS Group is delighted to announce that Right Choice Conveyancing has achieved the Legal Eye Quality Standard (LEQS).

Employees are the weakest link in most cyber security attacks. The VinciWorks Phishing Challenge addresses this weakness by training employees to spot phishing emails.

National law firm Irwin Mitchell has announced 15 new Partners across the country in this year’s promotion round at the Group.

General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) come into force in exactly one year. If you are unprepared, this regulation could have a drastic impact on your business and how you collect data. The regulation creates significantly more rights and protections for data subjects, and imposes heavy fines on businesses that don’t comply.