Is Twitter useless?

Posted by Justin on Jun 20, 2009 in Abaddons Musings, lawyers, local | 0 comments According to Larry Bodine, who should know whereof he speaks, Twitter is “not effective for law firm marketing” and in fact can do positive harmWhile his analysis seems sound, I don’t use Twitter for marketing, but for fun and, as I read his article, it emphasised how I do not use Twitter as is apparently expected: 1: I do not seek to follow a large number of people – I...
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Why don’t HIPs include contracts?

Posted by Justin on Apr 25, 2009 in Abaddons Musings, conveyancing, lawyers, legal system | 2 comments If HIPs (Home Information Packs) were really meant to provide a comprehensive package of pre-contract documents to speed up the conveyancing process, why do they not include a draft contract?It is not because of any technical difficulty: the draft contract can be prepared at the same time as a property information form (see my earlier post). The details of the buyer and the price would need to...
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HIPs "upgraded" from 6 April

Posted by Justin on Apr 12, 2009 in Abaddons Musings, conveyancing, estate agents, HIPs, lawyers, legal system, local, Tenterden | 0 comments Now that HIPs must include a PIQ, there is another hurdle to leap before marketing a property, but we at Nelsons Property Lawyers think we can help There are different versions of the PIQ for existing homes and for new homes – a new home for these purposes is a home that is being designed or constructed or which has never been occupied. – and different versions for freehold and for...
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Special offer for local first-time buyers

Posted by Justin on Apr 8, 2009 in Abaddons Musings, communitarianism, conveyancing, lawyers, local | 0 comments To help local people stay local, we have introduced a very special, not-to-be-missed, fixed fee offer for local first-time buyers of property – see our leaflet for details
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from The Moonstone …

Posted by Justin on Apr 5, 2009 in Abaddons Musings, lawyers | 0 comments “it [is] always desirable for the sake of peace and quietness to be on the lawyer’s side”Hee! Hee!
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Dumped by the Abbey – an update

Posted by Justin on Mar 28, 2009 in Abaddons Musings, banks, conveyancing, lawyers, small towns | 0 comments Following representations made by the Law Society to the Abbey, it appears that the preremptory letter issued to 6,000+ firms last wek is part of an exercise to invite firms to apply to joing a combined panel for the Abbey and Alliance + Leicester. If this is true, the original letter was extraordinarily cack-handed, as it gave no hint of this. It may be that the Abbey is finding a way to climb...
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