New website – awaiting launch

Posted by Justin on Jan 20, 2011 in Nelsons' Column | 0 comments This is our new – as yet unlaunched – website for our merged brands: Justin Nelson (dealing with commercial work) will merge with Nelsons (dealing with residential conveyancing) to come under the single “Nelsons” umbrella This will simplify life for us, and for our clients, who must have been quite confused by the two brands on occasions! For fuller details, please see...
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Commoditisation -v- the old-fashioned “family solicitor”

Posted by Justin on Jan 16, 2011 in accountants, conveyancing, estate agents, lawyers, Nelsons' Column, professionals | 0 comments In The Private Patient, the author – P D James – several times includes an assumption that “people of means” will have a permanent solicitor – a family solicitor – who knows their background and previous dealings, and can give a broad range of advice and information. While this used to be the case – and is a useful means for fictional detectives to find...
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Unfair to pigeons!

Posted by Justin on Jan 9, 2011 in Abaddons Musings, logic | 0 comments There was an item on TV over the weekend (a comedy quiz, I believe) that mocked pigeons for being “superstitious” – for doing again the things they had been doing before when they were rewarded with food, etc Though they were compared to superstitious sportsmen, and the like, who insisted on wearing their “lucky jockstrap” for a match, or similar, in fact all the...
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Lawyers are rubbish …

Posted by Justin on Jan 9, 2011 in Abaddons Musings, conveyancing, cynicism, lawyers, legal system, professionals | 2 comments … well, too many of them are, anyway. We often wonder why we get so many irrelevant or unnecessary additional enquiries from buyers’ conveyancers (including solicitors). In the last couple of weeks, the answer has dawned on us: not only have they not read the paperwork we already sent them – they don’t care. They want us to answer their own standard questions; they then...
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Adding value

Posted by Justin on Jan 5, 2011 in Abaddons Musings, conveyancing, estate agents, lawyers, legal system, professionals, service | 0 comments I am told by those who know more about this sort of thing than I do – marketing people, mainly – that the “value dimensions” of a business depend on it displaying one or more of the following – product leadership operational excellence customer intimacy True or not, it provides food for thought Product leadership Hmm … that’s a difficult one for lawyers,...
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