National Conveyancing Week
11^th - 15^th March 2024

In this webinar, Rhiannon Davies, Senior Risk and Compliance Associate at Access Legal will be discussing some of the issues and themes regularly found when helping clients to gain CQS accreditation.

Rhiannon and our team of risk and compliance professionals have been helping conveyancing firms to gain CQS accreditation and reaccreditation for a number of years and have drawn on that experience to provide you with practical guidance on what potential issues you may face when it comes to CQS accreditation.

Conveyancers handle millions of pounds of client money each year. As such, they are a major target for cyber criminals, who can leverage cyber attacks to defraud your unsuspecting clients into transferring thousands of pounds into a criminal’s bank account, hold your data to ransom, or even gain access to important confidential data.

There are a number of ways you can defend your law firm against cyber-attacks, including having the right training and having a robust infrastructure that protects you against cyber-attacks. In this webinar, Chris Morris and Harry Fallows will talk you through some of the ways you can protect your firm against criminals looking to take advantage of you.

Earlier this year, small Oxfordshire-based firm, Ferguson Bracknell were fined £20,000 for a number of Anti-Money Laundering failings. Although the SRA accepted that there was no harm done to any clients, there was a risk that money laundering could have taken place due to the failings and so the firm received the record fine.

In this webinar, Brian Rogers looks at what the firm did wrong and what they should have done, giving you practical advice on what you need to have in place to make sure that the next time the SRA exercise their new powers, you aren’t on the end of it.

With the Council for Licensed Conveyancers vying for law firms to make the decision to be regulated by the CLC, many firms may be wondering ‘what’s the difference?’

And so, in this webinar, Laura Wilkes, one of our Risk and Compliance Associates who has years of experienced helping both SRA and CLC regulated conveyancing firms with compliance will talk through the differences between the two and in what circumstances would one be more favourable than the other.

In this webinar, Richard Hinton from Pitsford Consulting will discuss our findings from a review of 2022 UK conveyancing transaction data. Richard will look at trends in the sector, which firms have performed best in 2022 and where conveyancers might find opportunities in the market throughout 2023.