Sponsorship

ARE YOU INTERESTED IN SPONSORING THE SUSSEX LAW SOCIETY?

As a membership organisation reliant on subscription income and trading activities to provide services to its members, The Sussex Law Society welcomes support and involvement from organisations interested in the legal sector. See here for our 2024 Sponsorship Packages.

We are grateful to our current sponsors. Find out more about who they are and what they do here:

Becket Chambers

Becket Chambers is a large set of independent barristers’ chambers that serves clients in courts and tribunals across Sussex, Kent and the Southeast of England. With strong Family Law and Civil Law practices, Becket Chambers has facilities in Canterbury, Brighton, Dartford, Kings Hill (Maidstone) and Tunbridge Wells. Listed as a leading set in the 2023 edition of Legal 500, Becket Chambers barristers work on high-quality cases, and members also include qualified mediators and arbitrators.

You can find out more about Becket Chambers’ barristers at www.becket-chambers.co.uk and mediators at www.becketmediation.co.uk

To discuss your needs or find out about the availability of a particular Barrister, please contact our friendly clerking team on 01323 407299 (Sussex), 01227 786331 (Kent) or by email clerks@becket-chambers.co.uk

1 Crown Office Row

1 Crown Office Row provides expert advocacy and advice to a diverse range of clients. Our clerks give a first-class service to those who instruct us and are always available to discuss the specialist skills of our barristers and are regularly praised in the legal directories for service (“first class. Helpful, responsive and calmly accommodating.” Legal 500 2022).

Our barristers have been based in Brighton for 50 years as an annex of 1 Crown Office Row. Our centrally located modern premises opposite Brighton Pavilion are only a few minutes’ walk away from the Brighton District Registry and County and Magistrates’ Courts. Occupying three floors of Blenheim House, our local IT, conference, on-line library and seminar facilities are excellent.

Chambers are consistently recommended as a Band 1 set by Chambers & Partners and Legal 500. Chambers is now recognised as a leading set not only in Brighton but along a wide stretch of the South Coast from Portsmouth to Hastings supporting clients from Hampshire, Surrey and Kent in addition to Sussex. 1COR have passed Cyber Essentials Plus as part of our commitment to cyber security.

The set has a long tradition of active engagement in the legal and wider community. Our members are active in the South-Eastern legal community, engaging with local legal organisations including Resolution and sponsor the Brighton Business School Prize for Family Law. 1COR members helped establish and continue to be closely involved with the Quality Circle in Sussex.

1COR consistently fundraise for charities close to their hearts, surpassing themselves each year with events, bake sales and sporting endeavours (details here). 1COR annually organise the Ghulam Hussain Volley Ball tournament which supports local charities such as Rocking Horse and British Heart foundation.

For further details about Chambers or to speak to one of the clerks, please call on 01273 625625 or email us at brighton@1cor.com

Extech Cloud

Founded in 2008, we’re a well-established and experienced IT company, working with small to medium sized businesses across the southeast and London.

We help companies move their IT, networking, and communications systems into the Microsoft Cloud environment and then provide ongoing IT support for their whole team during their working day.

Our goal is to help businesses to become more flexible, collaborative, and efficient, and give them a competitive edge with IT that works at its very best.

Microsoft Solutions from Extech Cloud helps to improve performance and productivity, with reduced costs and eliminates CAPEX on server hardware.

As an Extech Cloud customer, you will always be on the very latest technology and can scale easily, only using what you actually need.

As an official Microsoft Solutions Partner, Azure Specialist, and award-winning IT Consulting Company, we empower businesses, and their people, to achieve more and to grow.

Get in touch to find out how we can help your business.

Galloways Accounting

As the fastest growing and largest accountancy firm in Sussex, we have over 200 people looking after thousands of businesses and individuals in multiple offices across the county. You’re in great hands.

We provide all the services that you would expect from a firm of our size, and all are delivered with your needs at the centre of our thinking. Happy people working for the interests of happy clients. That sounds good to us.

We help clients manage their financial and compliance matters, as well as trying to help them make or save money. We embrace the digital world through our cloud accounting capabilities, but equally recognise the importance of face to face and empathetic advice. Robots may take over the world one day, but when a client is worried about a tax bill or a business problem a friendly, familiar and trusted face makes all the difference.

Accountants like talking about what they do (don’t we all?), but every client story starts with their specific problem or requirement that needs addressing.

That’s why the most important thing that we do is listen…..

Groundsure

Groundsure is a leading UK environmental and climate data authority. We give land and property professionals expert information on risks including land contamination, flooding and ground stability, as well as forward guidance on potential climate risks, to advise their clients in the transaction.

We provide high value, property-specific opinions and analysis of land use, turning complex environment and climate data into clear and simple insights. This enables our clients to make better informed land and property decisions and makes information more accessible for more positive outcomes for our climate-challenged society.

Don’t hesitate to contact us on 01273 257 755 or info@groundsure.com

For more information, please visit www.groundsure.com

Index Property Information – South East

We at Index pride ourselves on being a different type of search provider. We offer regional expertise on a national scale.

As owners of our business, we understand and believe passionately in providing the sort of support and service that you as busy conveyancers deserve but are so often denied.

It is true that we do offer market leading technology solutions, such as;

– Electronic client onboarding (integrated with your choice of CMS)

– Remote ID verification / KYC and Source of Funds

– Electronic signatures

– Index Insure

– Integration with many of the leading CMS providers

– Digital AP1 submissions through full integration with Land Registry

– SDLT submission through integration with HMRC

– Integrated and free Legal Conveyancing Forms

– Free mapping with integrated Land Registry titles

………however, at no point do we seek to hide behind these solutions as being the answer to everything!

You will find our friendly team of experienced searchers available by phone or email, 9am to 5pm Monday to Friday, and you will be able to speak with someone knowledgeable and capable of dealing with your query, without being placed in a queue or dealt with by a call centre.

Often, where there are additional parcels or the transaction is not straightforward, trying to order the correct searches for your client through any ordering platform (even ours) can be confusing and create additional risk. Our team are here to help place orders and to help provide accurate quotes, along with practical, cost-effective advice for you and your clients.

This can be particularly helpful where commercial portfolios and new build developments are the order of business, and we are happy to work with you on a per instance basis to provide the best solutions to help you win the business and deliver to time and cost.

On a more practical level, during the busiest and most difficult of recent times, our relationships with Local Authorities also enabled us to help our clients with getting searches back well in advance of when the initial council return dates were estimated for. If you have an urgent scenario, we will actively get on the phone to do our best to be able to assist.

Our clients also very much appreciate that we provide assistance with obtaining documents for them, such as S106 agreements, Planning Agreements, Building Control Certificates, TPOs and more.

It really is possible to have your cake AND eat it!

If the above sounds interesting and you would like to discuss further (perhaps over a working lunch), please do contact myself and my team;

Director: Jerry Catmull

Tel: 0203 457 6910

Email: jerry.catmull@indexpi.co.uk and southeast@indexpi.co.uk

LawSure Insurance Brokers

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  and Tax Indemnity covers.

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 – so we are able to provide competitive terms most appropriate for your client. Using LawSure as your insurance broker satisfies SRA and Insurance Distribution Directive requirements.

We offer a comprehensive independent broking service and 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, unoccupied property, or any other insurance, we can find the best 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.

Contacting us is easy. You can:

So if you have a case that needs insurance, whether it’s for title, probate or any other risk, contact us today to see how we can help.  We know we can.

LEAP

LEAP is cloud-based legal case management and accounting solution that helps lawyers to practise across all the common areas of law, with integrated time recording, billing and client accounting that allows legal practices to run more efficiently and profitably. Fully utilising the cloud, LEAP’s unique features and productivity tools provide your legal practice with:

– A library of over 6,000 up-to-date legal forms and precedent letters, highly automated for accuracy and ease of production.
– Access to the same real-time matter and client information as your colleagues when working remotely.
– Complete mobility, manage your matters from anywhere, at any time on any device or web browser.
– Access to the latest technology, regular software upgrades and updates allowing your practice to run efficiently.
– A secure document sharing system, LawConnect, that allows your clients 24/7 access to their matter documentation.

LEAP allows you to run your entire law firm from one application, eliminating the mess, confusion and risk that comes with using multiple programs and databases for different areas of practice or parts of the business. As the solution is cloud-based you eliminate the need for a server reducing hardware licence and support costs, simplifying your IT infrastructure. LEAP invest more than £12,000,000 a year into research and development aimed solely at refining LEAP. We also invest in new technologies to make sure law firms have access to the same technological advantages as large firms.

To contact Leap:

Tel: 0845 683 2517

Email: info@leap.co.uk

Website: https://www.leap.co.uk/

Orion Legal Marketing

At Orion Legal Marketing, we want to ensure your marketing budget delivers you a quantifiable return on your investment. As trained and experienced solicitors and legal marketers, we have a proven track record of knowing what it takes to market law firms effectively and demonstrate their value.

With well over 100 years combined legal marketing and business development experience, we can help you attract, engage and retain more of your ideal clients to grow and sustain your profitable legal practice.

  • Branding
  • Websites
  • Marketing and Business Development Consulting Services
  • Social Media
  • E-Marketing
  • Articles/Blogs
  • Video
  • PR
  • Awards Submissions
  • Legal Directories Submissions
  • Copywriting
  • Marketing Collateral – Business Cards/Banners/Brochures etc

From strategic plans to tactical implementation – we do it all. We are a full-service marketing agency that specialises in the legal sector.

ReviewSolicitors

In the evolving digital landscape of legal services, where informed decisions are a click away, ReviewSolicitors stands as the UK’s primary source of information and a beacon for new clients seeking legal representation, guiding them through the often complex realm of legal services.

Who we are:

ReviewSolicitors is dedicated exclusively to the legal world, ensuring potential clients can access genuine and verified reviews about law firms along with insights into performance, success rates, availability and other key factors important for clients to understand at the early stage of their client journey.

At the heart of ReviewSolicitors is its commitment to transparency and authenticity. Annually, over 5 million clients turn to ReviewSolicitors.

Here, potential clients can delve into unbiased reviews penned by genuine former clients, encompassing all SRA-registered law firms.

These reviews shed light on the positive and negative experiences individuals have had with law firms. This first-hand knowledge equips potential clients with a clearer understanding of what they can expect when engaging with a particular firm.

Firms can improve their reputation by using ReviewSolicitors to collect client feedback more efficiently. Our streamlined process benefits firms looking to establish a trustworthy and professional image.

Our Services:

Exclusively tailored for law firms, ReviewSolicitors offers a wide array of benefits through our outstanding features:

Case Management System Integration: Automatically send clients a review request once the firm has closed the matter on the system.

Google Reviews Integration: Integrate Google Reviews to your profile and direct clients to leave their feedback on Google Reviews.

Social Media Integration: Automatically share 4- and 5-star reviews on the firm’s social media.

Widgets: Display a firm’s most recent 4- and 5-star reviews on their website.

Individual Profiles: Create individual profiles for each member of the team.

SRA-orientated: Our questionnaire meets the SRA’s recommended quality indicators for reviews.

Comprehensive Analytics and Reporting: Use powerful analytics and reporting tools to make data-driven decisions. Gain insights into your firm’s performance and the impact of your reviews.

There are more advantageous features available exclusively to members who register with ReviewSolicitors. By joining, you can display your exceptional qualities on an independent review platform and establish a positive reputation in the industry.

Contact Us:

Ready to take your law firm to new heights? Connect with us today to get started:
Website: www.reviewsolicitors.co.uk
Contact: Adam Hall
Phone: 0330 320 5053
Email: adam.hall@reviewsolicitors.com
Follow us on LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook.
Learn why over 4,000 firms trust us.

Search Legal

Established in 1987, Search Legal has spent over 30 years providing tailored recruitment solutions across the UK’s legal sector.

Our experienced legal recruiters, based in Brighton, cover Sussex as well as the whole of the South of England including Kent, Hampshire, Surrey. They are part of a wider specialist Legal recruitment team that also offers options in London where we work with City, West End, International and US firms. All of our consultants have a connection to the law, having previously worked in the profession.

Our expertise and local knowledge, allows us to provide exciting opportunities for candidates at all levels. Whether it’s a private practice or an in-house role, we excel at placing the right candidates in the best organisations.

We’re committed to building better futures. For our clients, this means delivering proven recruitment practices designed around their needs. Meanwhile, candidates can expect to be guided through every step of the recruitment process, removing the hassle from  their job search. This proven approach has allowed us to create exclusive partnerships with some of the UK’s biggest firms and form a community of dedicated candidates.

If you’re looking to take the next step in your legal career or you are looking to hire, then our consultants are ready to help.

Contact us on 01273 855000 or email legal.south@search.co.uk”

Westgate Chambers

At Westgate Chambers our aim is very straight forward. We deliver excellence in Family, Civil and Criminal law so you have immediate access to best-in-class legal experts with a genuinely personal touch. We remain the only common law set of Chambers based in Sussex. Although our primary base is now in Brighton, we are best placed to act in cases being heard on the South Eastern Circuit and remain involved in many major cases in London and beyond. Our clients are predominantly Solicitors from a long list of law firms across all of Chambers specialisms, many of whom have repeatedly worked with us since Chambers inception. However, we also have worked extensively with local government, trade bodies, and various prosecuting authorities, whilst we are increasingly receiving instructions from members of the public thanks to our Direct Access accreditation.

Members from Chambers specialist legal teams are also engaged within the wider legal community, with members holding positions within Resolution, ALC, FLBA, The Criminal Bar Mess, Sussex Family Justice Board and the Quality Circle. Members continue to also provide written legal articles for several publications including, Only Mums and Dads, High Net Worth Magazine and Law 360, whilst our legal experts are regular guests on the Family Matters Podcast.

In 2023, members from Chambers specialist Family Team were recognised and ranked in both The Legal 500 and Chambers and Partners directories. Our Clerking Team were also shortlisted as finalists for The Clerking Team of the Year, in the Lexis Nexis Family Law Awards.

Chambers unrivalled seminar programme is also packed full of further professional development for our Solicitor clients, whilst Chambers is also the host of the incredibly popular, Family Law Week Podcast.

Please do not hesitate to contact our friendly, helpful clerks by email clerks@westgate-chambers.co.uk to discuss any needs you may have.