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The SDLT holiday & lockdowns: a perfect storm for technostress
Monday, 23 November 2020Over the course of 2020, those working in residential conveyancing have had a rollercoaster ride of epic proportions. With the effective closing down of the residential property market in the first lockdown, followed by the unprecedented high levels of demand created by the lifting of restrictions, and indeed by the Stamp Duty Land Tax (SDLT) holiday. The deadline for the SDLT holiday is currently set at March 2021. In conveyancing terms, the deadline is now looming!
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How best to engage with clients in lockdown 2.0
Tuesday, 10 November 2020The first national lockdown period following the Covid-19 pandemic, certainly caught most of the 10,000 UK law firms off guard, particularly around the ability to ‘demobilise’ their workforce to operate remotely. While some transitioning, such as diverting phones, were relatively easy to make, the fact remains that the sector was not fully equipped to deal with remote working practices and the pressures of lockdown.
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Your clients can now complete electronic TR1 signing through the inCase app
Thursday, 29 October 2020Our inCase team are exciting to launch a groundbreaking feature, Electronic TR1 Signing. We know this additional feature will make the conveyancing process so much easier for law firms and their clients. Explore our step-by-step process and downloadable guide
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Evolution of the law firm: why clients demand that you embrace new technology
Wednesday, 28 October 2020Posted by Rob Hosier, Sales and Marketing Director at Legal Futures Associate inCase Compared to other professional services, the legal sector has historically been a slower adopter of technology, predominantly due to risk-averse practitioners, the partnership model and a the… Read More
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Managing Remote Teams: An Essential Guide for Managers
Thursday, 8 October 2020As a leader in your business, how can you achieve the best productivity and boost morale when your team is working from home? We have brought together leadership tips and insights being shared by digital workplace transformation experts right now, including from the Leeds Digital Festival just last month.
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Mobile to overtake desktop in 2015 – impact for the legal industry
Tuesday, 3 February 2015For several months now there has been predictions about when, not if, search on mobile will overtake desktop. As long ago as March 2014, Matt Cutts of Google predicted this would happen in 2014. Whilst it didn’t quite happen, there is little doubt that mobile search will now surpass desktop in Q1 2015.
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The new metrics for success in conveyancing
While technology has made much of the conveyancing process faster, there remains a practical limit to how many matters anyone can manage while still keeping standards intact.
The UK legal market is polarising – and the middle is disappearing
Consolidation and the boutique boom are not contradictory. They are the same market stretching apart at both ends – and it changes what your firm is worth, and to whom.
Conveyancing’s consistency problem is about pressure, not skills
When I qualified, a conveyancer had perhaps 10 or 12 plates to keep spinning. Today’s conveyancers have 20 or 30, and almost none of the room for error I had starting out.
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