associate news
Litigation Costs Services launches fixed-price budgeting/analysis service
Costs budgeting – seen as the lynchpin of the Jackson reforms – is due to come into effect for all cases issued from April this year. To assist and help firms to prepare for the budgeting process and to make their budgets as accurate as possible, Litigation Costs Services is introducing a fixed-price budgeting/analysis service.
LexisNexis announces new head of LexisPSL built environment
LexisNexis UK has announced that Katy Fixter has joined LexisNexis as head of LexisPSL built environment. Ms Fixter has more than 10 years’ experience in property practice. A former Berwin Leighton Paisner lawyer, where she trained and then qualified in 2003, she has covered all aspects of property practice and specialises in commercial real estate.
LexisNexis adds to Cordery Compliance Service
LexisNexis has announced two additions to its Cordery Compliance Service: Cordery Consulting Services and Compliance Healthcheck. The additions are set against a backdrop of increased regulation in the legal services delivery, including new outcomes-focused regulation and requirements for appointed COLPs… Read More
Changes to Energy Performance Certificate regulations take effect today
From today, 9th of January 2013, all sales or letting advertisements in the commercial media will now be required to show the EPC rating of the property being advertised. The full A-G energy performance graph is not necessary unless there is available space in the advertisement to accommodate it. There is also no longer a requirement to attach the front page of the certificate to any related written material.
Law Society endorses First Title for second time
First Title Insurance plc has received the endorsement of the Law Society for the second time in a row. The prestigious attribution follows a rigorous process of assessment during which the Law Society examined the range and quality of various insurance firms’ legal indemnity products.
Arlene Adams’ 2012 predictions hit the mark
At the start of 2012 Peppermint Technology’s Arlene Adams made a handful of predictions for the Legal Services market. Read on to see how she did.
Thomson Reuters to acquire Practical Law Company
Thomson Reuters today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Practical Law Company, the London-based provider of practical legal know-how and workflow tools to law firms and corporate law departments.
Leading PI practice selects Eclipse’s Proclaim solution in six-figure investment
Manchester law firm, TPC Solicitors, is implementing Eclipse’s Proclaim Practice Management Software solution in a deal valued at over £100,000.
The journey from new start-up to ABS
Originally formed as Kayes Solicitors some 10 years ago, Pudsey Legal was launched following the grant of its ABS licence in November 2012. The organisation now numbers over 20 staff, having earned an enviable reputation for excellent customer service and a strong local focus.
Checklist to test if you ready for COLPs and COFAs
Are you ready for 1 January 2013 and the start of the Solicitors Regulation Authority’s new COLP and COFA regime? Worry not – the Compl-i team at Weightmans has produced a handy pre-1 January checklist so you can be sure that you have thought of everything. Click here to download it.
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Motor finance – the FCA is more worried about banks than consumers
The Financial Conduct Authority’s motor finance redress scheme announced last week amounts to one of the largest ever consumer failures by the regulator.
Mazur: a symptom not a cause?
If Mazur is a symptom, what does it mean for the underlying health of our civil justice system: the ‘finest legal system in the world’?
Cross-generation collaboration: the key to in-house legal tech adoption
In-house legal function leaders will increasingly have to evolve their thinking on how to manage multigenerational teams containing differing levels of technological expertise.
