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Everything you need to know about AML for conveyancers

16 July 2024

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.  


Ranking for keywords and phrases using SEO and digital PR: Conscious Solutions and Hayes Connor

16 July 2024

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


How to reduce the risks around hybrid and remote working

16 July 2024

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


Many law firms could earn more by doing less, figures suggest

16 July 2024

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.


£Billion commercial real estate hotspots revealed

11 July 2024

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.


Digital Conveyancing Summit doubles ticketing for 2024 return

11 July 2024

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.


Meeting client demands with legal pricing and budgeting technology

10 July 2024

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, a division of Read Roper and Read Solicitors, have migrated to Hoowla’s legal accounts software

10 July 2024

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


How to leverage your data in times of financial uncertainty

9 July 2024

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.


Osprey Approach to enhance legal software user experience with UX specialists, Full Clarity

8 July 2024

Osprey Approach is delighted to announce that it has partnered with award-winning UX consultancy Full Clarity to enhance its software platform user experience.

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Strong AML controls are meaningless with incomplete data

One expectation as the FCA takes control of anti-money laundering oversight is a move towards more supervision rather than simply writing new rules.


Navigating the legal AI productivity-profitability paradox

Firms are achieving efficiencies through AI, especially in the practice of law. Yet many are struggling to see that reflected in their financial outcomes


Regulation, growth and access to justice: why legal services need a reset

Well-intentioned consumer protections embedded in the regulation of legal services increasingly act as barriers to innovation, competition and access to justice.


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