Our Sponsors
Supporting the National Paralegal Awards by sponsoring an award category will provide your business with the opportunity to network and engage with the leading companies in the Paralegal sector, as well as individuals which will promote greater brand awareness of your business.
Headline Sponsor
Right Legal GroupRight Legal Group is an innovative ABS established in 2014 solely specialising in Wills and Probate law. RLG has created an exclusive service called RightWill which delivers excellence in both legal advice and client care. Recognised for its forward thinking and commercial approach, RLG collaborates with law firms across the country to provide its unique service offering. At the heart of the business is its legal training academy which has trained in excess of 150 private client advisors since its launch and is fast becoming the ‘go-to’ academy for anyone passionate about a career in private client law.
Drinks Reception Sponsor
Fraser and FraserAt Fraser and Fraser, you will find a team of efficient, dedicated and experienced genealogists and probate researchers who offer the best service for you and your clients. At the forefront of the industry, we’ve been supporting the legal professions by tracing missing heirs and beneficiaries to unclaimed estates worldwide, for almost a century. Offering a range of other services, including:
- Missing Beneficiary Insurance
- Free Family Tree Check
- Risk Free Administrator Search Service
- Overseas Bankruptcy Searches
- Medallion Signature Guarantee
We pride ourselves on our commitment and clarity, specifically by treating each referral on a case-by-case basis. We’re happy to answer your questions, so please do get in touch.
Contact Name: Nick Howitt
Contact Number: 020 7832 1400
Email: [email protected]
Programme Sponsor
Legal FuturesLegal Futures is a leading provider of industry news, conferences and CPD training for the legal market. Written by professional journalists, we provide cutting-edge daily news coverage on how alternative business models, new technology and regulatory reform are disrupting the marketplace and shaking up the way law firms do business. Read by a monthly audience of 70,000 lawyers and other stakeholders in the sector, we frequently break important news stories ahead of other legal trade press and broadsheets.
Legal Futures organises regular in-person conferences on innovation in the delivery of consumer legal services, personal injury sector reforms and changes to compliance and regulation. We produce over 150 on-demand CPD webinars covering all practice areas, providing a convenient and cost-effective method of professional training for firms of all sizes.
The Institute of Paralegals is a professional membership body that connects individuals with the shared purpose of providing professional legal services.
The Institute is the standard setting body for Paralegals as recognised by the unregulated legal services sector regulator, the PPR. We are the only Paralegal Body that is recognised by the voluntary regulator as having robust professional standards.
Our mission is to set professional standards, provide recognition for paralegals and promote professionalism. Our purpose is to uphold the highest standards in knowledge, practice and ethics across the paralegal profession and to support individual paralegals in developing the skills and knowledge required to meet these highest standards.
X-Press Legal Services is the largest independent provider of property searches and services for conveyancing professionals.
We are trusted by legal practices throughout England and Wales, and our 27 independently run local businesses use their in-depth knowledge of their area and experience to deliver thousands of property searches and reports every year.
We offer a full range of digital products and services, allowing our clients to access a wealth of resources, whilst also receiving exceptional customer service from our local owners.
Our ongoing investment in IT and technology allows us to provide a one-stop-shop for all your conveyancing needs. We are fully compliant with industry regulations, trustworthy and completely transparent. Our accreditations, including Cyber Essentials Plus, demonstrates how we put client satisfaction and data security first and foremost.
Founded in 1934, chartered in 2016, the Chartered Institute of Trade Mark Attorneys (CITMA) is a professional membership organisation with the power to shape law and practice – nationally and internationally.
It represents the interests of over 1,700 trade mark and design professionals, and fights to bring recognition to the work they do.
CITMA also feeds their enthusiasm for the profession through regular conferences and events, professional development courses, newsletters, social media debate and the CITMA Review.
It runs a well-established training course for trade mark paralegals and launched the CITMA Paralegal category of membership in 2017.
Its community of members includes fully qualified trade mark attorneys, those in training and support roles, and barristers and solicitors with a trade mark or design interest working around the world.
CITMA has legal responsibility for regulating the trade attorney profession, which is delegated to the Intellectual Property Regulation Board (IPReg).
The Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys (CIPA) was founded in 1882 and was incorporated by Royal Charter in 1891. CIPA is the professional body for the patent attorney profession in the UK, representing over 2,500 Chartered Patent Attorneys, working in industry or in private practice. CIPA’s total membership is approximately 4,200 and includes trainee patent attorneys, patent administrators and other professionals with an interest in intellectual property law.
PROPERTY SOLUTIONS GROUP
We offer end-to-end, practical property solutions that enable legal professionals to support their clients professionally and financially. There are so many tasks that come up due to the passing of the owner or to acquire funds for specialist care, and they are usually time consuming and frustrating to deal with.
That’s where we come in. We take on literally any job that is getting in the way of completing the legal process – from low-cost insurance, selling the property with zero fees, maintenance requirements, house clearing – even valuing and rehoming a pond of koi carp! You name it, we can take care of it.
What we pride ourselves on most though is the way we do business.
We build relationships with our customers. Everybody at PSG is friendly, reliable and passionate about enabling you to give the best customer experience possible.
Part of the University of Law, CLT Scotland is a leading provider of specialist paralegal training throughout the UK, pioneering the concept over 20 years ago.
Flexible distance learning in your chosen area of law enables you to gain a graduate-level Specialist Paralegal Qualification from The University of Law that fits around your current work and family commitments.
Over 9000 paralegals throughout the UK have already qualified with us. Fast track your career with graduate level study and no entry requirements. Boost your career in a maximum of 18 months, and probably less, with a career focused programme of study that gives you skills you can immediately apply to your current role.
CILEX (The Chartered Institute of Legal Executives) is one of the three main professional bodies covering the legal profession in England and Wales. The 20,000-strong membership is made up of CILEX Lawyers, paralegals and other legal professionals.
CILEX pioneered the non-university route into law; the CILEX Professional Qualification (CPQ), offers a new approach to on-the-job training that marries legal knowledge with the practical skills, behaviours and commercial awareness needed by lawyers in the 2020s.
The CPQ provides three levels of qualification: CILEX Lawyer, CILEX Advanced Paralegal and CILEX Paralegal. CILEX Lawyers can become partners in law firms, coroners, judges or advocates in open court.
Today’s Wills and Probate is the leading online news publication for wills and probate practitioners. It was launched in 2014 with the intention of informing will writers, probate practitioners and estate planners about the changes that are happening in their market. As a publication completely independent of regulators we adopt a balanced editorial position, providing provides daily news, industry insight and best practice guidance for the growing readership.
Alongside our news and feature content we also enable suppliers to connect with our audience through our popular partnerships; with a range of marketing tools to help you introduce your products and services to our community of practitioners.
www.todayswillsandprobate.co.uk
Trowers & Hamlins is well known for its eclectic mix of specialisations combining sector leadership in the UK and across the Middle East. We help businesses and governments change the way we live and work for the better. We do this by providing commercial advice geared towards tackling tomorrow's challenges in industry.
We are well known for being experts in the real estate sector, and have thriving commercial, social housing, banking and finance, private wealth, employment and care practices, in addition to specialist practices such as planning, tax, pensions, and environment. We are a top-40 UK law firm and undertake work around the globe. We have over 150 partners with more than 900 people located across the UK, Middle East and Far East.
Now in its sixth decade, Anglia Research is an international firm of probate genealogists that sets the standard for probate genealogy and heir location. We provide probate genealogical services and expertise to the legal profession, supporting Private Client practitioners with a range of key services aimed at fast-tracking the successful administration of probate cases and helping progress Court of Protection matters.
We have traced thousands of lost heirs, missing beneficiaries, unknown next of kin and unclaimed assets, both in the UK and around the world.
Our highly skilled researchers can piece together a complex family tree from the smallest amount of information. They liaise with a global network of 200+ agents to find missing beneficiaries or next of kin worldwide. Over thousands of assignments, we have achieved a success rate that is the envy of our competitors.
Crucially, we have more accredited genealogists and independently regulated staff than any other UK research company, including numerous fully qualified paralegals. Our commitment to raising standards in our industry is demonstrated by our employee’s desire to develop with ongoing training throughout their careers and our corporate membership of the Association of Probate Researchers, a recognised body of the Professional Paralegal Register.
Clerksroom is an award-winning chambers, recognised by most of the major directories and trusted by 20,000+ solicitors in the last 15 years. One of the leading providers of barristers & mediators in England & Wales, conducting on average over 1400 final hearings each month in addition to being one of the largest national providers of advice drafting.
Clerksroom take great pride in the service provided which ensures that you have a single point of contact and a consistently high level of quality whenever you need to instruct a barrister or mediator. Our services are available 24/7.
Treethorpe is an established asset reunification firm, with offices located in London and Cambridge. Our team of professional forensic genealogists and researchers dedicate their time and expertise to tracing legitimate owners, heirs or beneficiaries of forgotten and unclaimed assets, such as lost shares, pensions, life policies, cash and dormant bank accounts, so that they can successfully reunite them with those entitlements. Cases are diverse in origin, speciality, complexity, legality and locality (can be national or international) and engaged by a range of clientele, including private individuals, company secretaries, asset custodians, corporate organisations, local authorities and solicitors.
The Institute of Legal Finance & Management is one of the UK's leading membership organisations in the legal sector.
It provides qualifications, training, knowledge, support and information for anyone working in legal finance and in legal practice management. Our members include legal cashiers, accounts managers, compliance officers for finance and administration (COFAs), practice managers and sole practitioners.
We offer recognised professional qualifications, regular training days on issues relevant to the industry, regulatory information and many support features and services, including an industry magazine. The Institute has become the resource of choice for thousands of leading professionals in the legal sector, including many considering a new career in the legal sector.
The Institute is dedicated to driving innovation, advancing education and promoting excellence throughout the legal sector. Our training and education aim to raise awareness, advocate good business practice and maintain high standards, to ensure that clients’ money and assets are protected and treated ethically.
