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In the UK, law firms must file a Precedent H cost budget on all multi-track cases. There are exemptions for cases of minor claims, claims in which the value is more than £10,000,000, or the Court has said it is not necessary.

Every Property Law Solicitor and Conveyancer knows that carrying out an Anti-Money Laundering (AML) check before taking on a client is crucial to ensure compliance.  

At Conscious Solutions, we have been helping law firms become more successful online for over 20 years. In that time, we have worked with all sizes of law firms with different budgets over different time frames

According to The Advance Legal Trends Report 2023/24, managing hybrid working remains one of the biggest challenges for law firms.

With only one quarter of law firms telling us that they are realising 70% or more of their billable hour targets, law firms are constantly striving to maximise their billable hours while minimising non-billable administrative tasks.

Challenging conditions in the commercial real estate market have contributed to a collapse in the number of local authority districts in England and Wales attracting £1bn+ in annual commercial real estate sales, according to new analysis from Search Acumen, the property data provider.

InfoTrack has announced the return of The Digital Conveyancing Summit in 2024, doubling capacity for London ticket holders. This year’s event will consist of a one-day hybrid event, with the expansion bringing breakout sessions and Ted-style talks to provide more opportunities for attendees to participate in discussions.

As part of BigHand’s commitment to providing our clients and the broader legal market with meaningful data insights into the ever-evolving world of legal pricing, we’ve collected survey responses from over 800 senior legal finance professionals across the UK and North America annually since 2021. Most recently, we published a trends analysis for legal pricing and budgeting, containing significant insight from our surveys. In this article, I’ll focus on how the numbers show an increase in client demand for flexible pricing and financial transparency and the way firms are responding to this trend.

LPL recently migrated its accounting operations to Hoowla’s platform from Quill Pinpoint, creating a unified system for its operations.

Rather than waiting for the expected better conditions to arrive, we have spoken to some of the top commercial property law experts in the UK about how firms can overcome the persistent levels of financial uncertainty in the sector today.