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21 May 2021
Issue: 7933 / Categories: Legal News , Profession , Technology , Conveyancing , Property
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NLJ this week: Conveyancing goes digital

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With the property sector currently ‘a hive of activity’, digital conveyancing is enjoying its own mini-boom, according to Bronwyn Townsend, senior marketing manager, InfoTrack.

Writing in this week’s NLJ, Townsend explains how social distancing requirements during the pandemic meant digitisation ‘seeped into places it had still yet to actively engage’. She writes that the benefits of automation are more than time saving and efficiency, they reduce ‘the risk of rekeying errors’.

Also in NLJ, barrister and journalist Veronica Cowan reports on the compliance benefits of electronic conveyancing and the rapid move from manual to digital ID checks in the past year.

MOVERS & SHAKERS

Anthony Collins—20 promotions

Anthony Collins—20 promotions

20 promotions mark major people investment at national law firm, Anthony Collins

Sidley—Elaine Whiteford

Sidley—Elaine Whiteford

Sidley adds competition litigator Elaine Whiteford in London

Charles Russell Speechlys—Claudina D’Costa

Charles Russell Speechlys—Claudina D’Costa

Charles Russell Speechlys welcomes Claudina D’Costa as Director of Client Development Marketing

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