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SearchFlow Summit 2025 – Driving change: Insights for a sustainable future
SearchFlow’s annual event, the SearchFlow Summit 2025, will take place on Thursday 12 June at the Courthouse Hotel Shoreditch in London, with a theme of ‘Driving change: Insights for a sustainable future’.
Are your fees keeping up? What data says about today’s market rates
Hoowla analysis shows an average conveyancing fee of £1,361.70 for freehold properties and £1,521.61 for leasehold properties, with price brackets reflecting both transaction types.
Larger companies turn to 360 Business Law’s AI Contract Review Service to cut costs, boost speed and enhance accuracy
More and more of 360 Business Law’s larger clients are turning to its AI Contract Review Service to accelerate their contract processes, improve efficiency, and reduce legal review costs.
Brabners becomes member of Association of Law Firm Merger Advisers
Leading independent law firm Brabners has become a member of ALFMA, the Association of Law Firm Merger Advisers.
Understanding conveyancing delays with data from Hoowla Conveyancing Software
Recent industry research highlights a persistent challenge in the conveyancing industry; transaction timelines remain significantly longer than historical averages.
Commercial Real Estate sector set to miss major decarbonisation target by a decade
Research by commercial real estate data and technology company, Search Acumen, suggests that it will take until at least 2040 for all rented commercial properties to meet the 2030 MEES standards
While PPI took almost 9 years, PCP & future high volume claimants will be completed within 18 months
286,075 registered …. AI claims accounts across our agent’s AI platforms to March 2025. That’s how quickly compliant claimants can be onboarded & claims detected to a “white label” AI claims platform.
Client & transaction onboarding – preventing issues before they happen
Client and transaction onboarding is the foundation on which the rest of your matter-management is based.
Law firm increases case turnover and client satisfaction by going paperless with Access Legal Proclaim
OP Costs Drafting in Kent moved onto a full version of Access Legal Proclaim last year to allow for greater customisation, increased automation and a move to a fully paperless office.
Practical steps law firms can take towards adopting AI
There’s a lot of talk currently about the positive business benefits associated with adopting generative AI. But if you’re in a law firm, you’re probably asking a more practical question – where do we even start?
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Gen Z lawyers vs identity, sacrifice and success
This conversation began with my training principal, who admitted something many senior lawyers quietly feel: “I struggle to understand what motivates Gen Z lawyers.”
How does the legal profession become neuroinclusive?
My learning journey as mum to an autistic son with profound additional needs completely changed the way in which I work as a child protection lawyer.
The real cure for inequality at law firms? Listening
How can men, as one male panellist put it, “get out of the way of people coming up through the ranks?”
Most of these conversations only happen after the men leave the room.
