Patrons

Evelyn Partners is the UK’s leading integrated wealth management and professional services group, created following the merger of Tilney and Smith & Williamson. With £54.4 billion of assets under management (as at 31 March 2023), it ranks as the second largest UK wealth manager measured by EBITDA and the fifth largest professional services firm ranked by fee income (source: Accountancy Age 50+50 rankings, 2022).

It has a network of offices across 28 towns and cities in the UK, as well as the Republic of Ireland and the Channel Islands. Through its operating companies, the Group offers an extensive range of financial and professional services to individuals, family trusts, professional intermediaries, charities and businesses.

Evelyn Partners’ purpose is to ‘place the power of good advice into more hands’, and it is uniquely well-placed to support clients with both their personal financial affairs and their business interests. Evelyn Partner’s personal wealth management services include financial planning, investment management and advice, personal tax advice and, through Bestinvest, an award-winning online investment service for self-directed investors. For businesses, its wide range of services includes assurance and accounting, business tax advice, employee benefits, forensic advice, fund administration, fund governance, recovery and restructuring and transaction services.

Landmark Information give every property and land professional the confidence and capabilities to act and transact at pace, through their market-leading data, wide-ranging product portfolio, and comprehensive expertise. Landmark’s dedicated, personal approach supports legal professionals in their due diligence in line with the Law Society and SRA requirements.

For more information, please visit www.landmark.co.uk

Actionstep is a law firm management platform that connects, organises, and automates all the work that happens at midsize law firms. Actionstep empowers firms to get total control over their future success. Our law firm management platform is built to adapt to a firm’s unique strengths and goals, supporting firms to modernise and build a firm advantage in the legal marketplace. With connected features, like client intake, matter management, document management, time tracking, billing, legal accounting, and business reporting, Actionstep equips firms to do their work efficiently, delight clients, manage firm profitability, grow, and oversee your firm.

Finders International is globally renowned probate genealogy firm, specialising in tracing heirs and beneficiaries for unclaimed estates. Our team assists solicitors, executors, and administrators in locating family members, whether they are direct descendants or distant relatives, using a combination of traditional research methods and advanced technology.

Our services include:

• Tracing missing beneficiaries to estates, property and assets
• Locating next of kin to a deceased person
• Finding heirs to unclaimed or dormant funds
• Probate Property sales, insurance and property management services
• Searching for missing wills and unclaimed assets
• Overseas Bankruptcy Searches
• Repatriation of funds from abroad
• Currency conversion and transfer

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For more information, please visit www.findersinternational.co.uk

Chadwick Nott is a boutique legal recruitment consultancy established in 1992 with offices across the UK. We have previously won the Global Recruiter Award for Best Specialist Recruiter and have been listed in the Times Top 100 Best Small Companies to Work For.

We place lawyers from NQ to partner level in permanent and interim roles, both in private practice and in-house across the UK and the major offshore financial centres. Our expertise extends traditional fee-earning roles to include alternative career paths in professional support, learning & development, and risk & compliance. We have been active in the Surrey area for over 20 years working with all the top firms as well as the smaller and niche practices.

For more information, please visit www.chadwicknott.co.uk

Pro Drive work with law firms who prefer to outsource the planning and management of their IT systems. Our clients want to use technology to help put them ahead of their competition but they do not have the time or expertise to do this themselves. We can help with IT Support & Cyber Security, built around a strategic plan.

For more information, please visit https://www.prodriveit.co.uk/

Property Conveyancing Consultancy (‘PCC’) was created in 2015 by Priscilla Sinder, a property solicitor, who noticed the lack of attention, dedication and resources some firms were giving to post-completion duties. In a bid to change this mindset Priscilla started a journey to offer high quality post-completion outsourcing services, conducted by UK based professionals.

This foundation allowed PCC to grow from strength to strength allowing Priscilla to examine conveyancing in greater detail where she desired to offer PCC’s quality to firms who executed their own post-completion work. This sowed a further seed for PCC where the birth of PCC’s Education Hub (‘Hub’) was born.

The Hub was developed to enhance any conveyancing practitioners’ knowledge in post-completion duties by creating an extra layer of technical knowledge and confidence to the industry, in turn raising standards across all elements of post-completion work. The Hub is designed to target best practice in post-completion, not only for post-completion staff but extends to fee earners as well, of all levels.

The selection of courses has been created against the backdrop of HM Land Registry practice guides, infused with tips and bite-size key points, providing certainty and confidence in each practitioner’s ability when submitting applications to HM Land Registry. The ethos behind the Hub is to exemplify how post-completion tasks are entwined at each stage of conveyancing, thus liberating the theory that post-completion is simply an afterthought in conveyancing.

DevAssist is an award-winning business that analyses locations for development risk, and are research experts in property, planning and development.

Planning data, local and national planning policies, and Strategic Housing Land Availability Assessments (SHLAAs) are complex to interpret. Development risk is not always easily identified, and the proximity of planned developments to a property is not always clear. DevAssist is the only business in the UK analysing this information and assessing both;

• The real risk of development in a given location.
• The development potential of the subject property and site.

Our findings are used to create bespoke reports that provide a real picture of development change happening locally.

• Simple to purchase, buy direct or via your solicitor
• Quick turnarounds and fast track service available
• Affordable
• User-friendly

To find out more, visit https://www.devassist.co.uk or contact us on 01342 890010 / info@devassist.co.uk

As Customer Experience (CX) specialists in the legal sector, insight6 partners with over 250 UK law firms to drive new business, retain satisfied clients, and foster a CX-focused culture. We help firms measure client journeys, gather real-time feedback, and deliver motivational team training, ensuring CX becomes a boardroom priority. For more information, contact Paul Matthews at paul.matthews@insight6.com.

LawSure Insurance Brokers, based in Horsham, West Sussex, is an award-winning leading independent broker specialising in innovative insurance solutions for solicitors’ clients. We provide insurance across many classes of business – from Title Insurance for conveyancing solicitors and developers, Probate and Administration insurances through to complex Warranty and Indemnity covers for corporate solicitors.

Our service is completely free and there is no obligation to take out any of our quotes – although we hope you will! As an independent broker, we have relationships with all the leading insurers in all our classes of business – we are able to provide terms most appropriate for your client. Using LawSure as your insurance broker satisfies SRA and Insurance Distribution Directive requirements.

We offer a free comprehensive independent broking service and we contact multiple insurers for each enquiry. So whether you need restrictive covenant indemnity insurance, FENSA insurance, rights to light or any of the other 30+ title insurance products we offer for conveyancing transactions, or a missing beneficiary or executor/administrator insurance policy, or any other insurance, we can find the right solution for your client. We pride ourselves on our service – we aim respond within one hour of receiving your quotation enquiry and aim to get out a quote within 24 hours – depending on the complexity of the case.

Using LawSure could save you precious  time and money. With nothing to lose and a whole lot to gain, why wouldn’t you?

For more information, please visit www.lawsureinsurance.co.uk or email enquiries@lawsureinsurance.co.uk

Chris Cotterill of Konsileo is our newest sponsor of the SLS and works as a specialist in Solicitors Professional Indemnity Insurance and Cyber Liability. Amongst several other insurance products for law firms, his expertise and experience are second to none.

Having gained over 15 years of experience, specifically in the Solicitors Insurance market and always delving into the finer details of the policies for each type of risk, he understands the importance of ensuring each law firm has the best possible insurance cover tailored specifically to their needs.  He is extremely proactive and prides himself on offering a first-class service to all of his clients by working in partnership with them ensuring he is always on hand to answer any of their questions, every step of the way.

Chris is available for face-to-face meetings or general enquiries via email: chris.cotterill@konsileo.com or telephone 07886 015 007.

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The College of Legal Practice is leading the way in preparing students for the Solicitors Qualifying Examination – the SQE. We are an accredited, fully virtual law school based in the UK, with years of expertise in supporting students through every SQE assessment.

Our online legal training programmes are designed to help candidates pass the SQE, thanks to our experienced team led by CEO, Dr Giles Proctor, who was instrumental in the design of the SQE at Kaplan law school. The legal training we offer is carefully designed to be flexible to meet the variety of students taking the SQE, including recent graduates, international students and those converting to law. We collaborate closely with partner firms and Universities, developing their SQE programmes that meets their needs. Designed for online, our courses are affordable and accessible and fully focused on the SQE.

Our not-for-profit ethos means we keep our programmes low-cost and high-value. Taught by experienced solicitors, our content is grounded in real-world legal practice, with expert personal supervision and support, highly rated by our students. The College of Legal Practice is backed by over 50 years of experience in legal training, through The College of Law in Australia, helping give our students the best chance of passing the SQE.

The College of Legal Practice works with progressive national and regional firms that share their values and ethos, including Reed Smith, Clarke Willmott, Acuity Law, Ashfords and Capsticks as well as many law schools. To access their free guide to the SQE for Legal L&D click here.

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Getting your lawyers qualified

We can collaborate with you to create a SQE programme that meet the specific needs of your organisation. We provide the best platform to help your paralegals and trainees qualify and progress as legal professionals. Our programmes will both help prepare them to pass the SQE and develop the transactional and business skills and competencies they need to succeed in the industry.

We offer the following part-time and full-time accredited courses and programmes:

• SQE1 preparation courses (£2,200)
• SQE2 preparation courses (£2,700)
• Graduate Diploma in Law (£3,950)
• LLM in Legal Practice (£7,245)
• Legal & Business Skills modules (£500+)
• Graduate Solicitor Apprenticeships

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TWM Solicitors are a leading South East law firm with 220 people in offices across Surrey and London. We are a full service firm, undertaking the full spectrum of legal work – for private clients, we are renowned for family law, residential property, tax planning, trusts, wealth management, and Wills and probate, and for business clients we have teams dealing with the full range of corporate and commercial law, dispute resolution, employment, and commercial property.

For more information, please visit https://www.twmsolicitors.com/

A full service publishing agency renowned for our contract and customer publishing solutions for industry and government. We write, design, fund and produce publications for UK chambers of commerce, institutes, law societies and trade associations.

Founded in 1997 as a technical publishing agency we produce industry magazines and capability directories in pharmaceuticals, environment, chemicals, shipping, emergency planning, politics, education, law, events – you might need us in the future so call us today on 0151 236 4141.

For more information, please visit www.benhampublishing.com