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Whether you are “white-labelling” the panel as your own, or whether you are simply directing customers to the network as an independent third party, you want to ensure that the service provided by panel solicitors will reflect well upon your organisation. We, and the firms that we accept onto The National Solicitors’ Network, take seriously the provision of a high level of service clients.

MEMBER QUALITY

All firms applying for membership of The National Solicitors’ Network are visited by one of our team of qualified consultants to ensure that they have the requisite skills, capacity and quality awareness to service the work that is referred to them by our clients The majority of our firms also have an existing quality mark (for example, Lexcel, Investors in People).

The network also operates a rolling programme of revisiting member firms to re-vet their qualifications for network membership.

Network firms also have access to the various quality initiatives run by The National Solicitors’ Network. Previous examples include the (free) provision of an Office Procedures Manual and the adoption of Conveyancing Quality Standards with were drafted in association with several key mortgage lenders.

The network’s most recent initiative is Risk Management, on which topic, workshops were run in March of this year.

SERVICE LEVEL AGREEMENT

In addition to the general quality checks that are undertaken with network members, a specific service level agreement is agreed with each new institutional/corporate client. Members of the Network must sign-off their agreement to adhere to these specific requirements before they are admitted onto any panel created by the Network and before they receive any instructions from the client.

Issues covered by the service level agreement include:

  • Service standards (for example, response times and an agreement not to cross-sell)
  • Fees (for example, fixed fees for product based services and charging structures for additional work)
  • Transaction Progress reporting schedules where relevant in relation to specific products