An Introduction to Residential Leasehold Conveyancing (Series of 5)
2025-09-08 11:00 - 2025-10-13 12:00 UTC | Online
This series of five 60-minute webinars, brought to you by Today’s Training and IQ Legal Training will explore the residential leasehold conveyancing process. The series explains the differences between freehold and leasehold conveyancing and the procedures and documentation encountered in a leasehold transaction. It will examine potential problems and the risk of claims along with preventative measures and processes.
The series will cover:

The differences between freehold and leasehold conveyancing
Key clauses in residential long leases
Documentation – contract, TA 7, LPE1 service charge accounts, management information, management regulations etc.
Dealing with financial issues – ground rent, service charge and apportionments
Problem transactions – old and defective leases, BSA related issues including sales and purchases involving relevant and higher-risk buildings

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How To Convert Telephone Enquiries From Potential Clients Into Profitable Business.
2025-09-26 11:00 - 12:00 | Online
Discover The Opportunities You Are Missing Everyday!
How many new business enquiries from potential new clients do you get every day / month / year by telephone?
Do you know your conversion rate of these enquiries into profitable business?
What if you knew the ‘secrets’ to massively increasing your conversion success rates?
For the last 40 years Ian Cooper, has shown hundreds of legal firms how to guarantee a significant increase in conversion rates from their telephone enquiries. Some firms have doubled their conversion rates, generating huge amounts of extra revenue a year, all without spending anymore on marketing!
In this thought provoking, anecdotal and pragmatic presentation, Ian Cooper will make you challenge your existing methods, mindset and strategy and reveal:

How much you could win and how much you are losing right now.
The results of his surveys into this topic.
The traps most firms fall into.
His ‘5 Step System’ to improve conversion rates.
The ‘magic’ question you must ask your caller early in the call.
The 1 key question you must ask at the end.
How to win the job, even when you are more expensive!

Speaker
Ian Cooper (Former Professor)

Assessing Risk in Residential Conveyancing Transactions
2025-10-09 11:00 - 12:00 | Online
This webinar is suitable for residential conveyancers of all levels and experience and will examine the risks associated with residential sales and purchases. Topics covered include:

An overview of risk in residential conveyancing transactions

Onboarding clients – client, matter, and AML risk assessments

Reviewing risk as the transaction progresses

Assessing risk in residential leasehold transactions

Avoiding Claims and Complaints in Residential Conveyancing
2025-10-20 11:00 - 12:00 | Online
This webinar is suitable for residential conveyancers of all levels and experience and will examine what are the common causes of claims. Topics covered include:

Effective communication with clients – getting key messages across to clients

Scoping the retainer to inform the client and protect the firm

Dealing with Searches – communicating search results, dealing with adverse entries and reporting on risk and issues

Advising on restrictive covenants and access issues

Important lessons from case law

Artificial Intelligence and Residential Conveyancing
2025-11-10 11:30 - 12:30 | Online
This webinar will be of interest to all residential conveyancers and will explore:

The current use of AI in residential conveyancing

The short term and medium-term impact of AI on residential conveyancing

The changing role of the residential conveyancer

Artificial General Intelligence and its impact on the future of residential conveyancing

Review of the Year
2025-12-02 11:00 - 12:00 | Online
A review of key cases and developments in residential conveyancing for 2025 and what we can expect in 2026.
This webinar is suitable for residential conveyancers of all levels and experience and will explore:

Searches – advising on climate change and other searches
Where are we with the TA forms and the revised TA6
Leasehold Transactions and the impact of the Leasehold and Freehold Reform Act 2024 and the Renters Reform Bill
The dreaded BSA – what is the current position
Key cases for conveyancers from 2025

Extensive notes will be provided and time allocated for delegate questions

Residential conveyancing for support staff
2026-02-02 11:00 - 2026-04-28 15:00
This comprehensive 12‑part training series equips residential conveyancing support staff with the practical skills and confidence to handle every stage of a transaction. Across weekly one‑hour webinars, attendees move from first instructions and client care through seller and buyer workflows, leasehold complexities, remortgages, equity work and completion‑day challenges. The programme also tackles land registration issues, new‑build and shared‑ownership pitfalls, service charge and lease clause essentials, and the drafting and interpretation points that underpin good practice. It concludes with focused sessions on avoiding negligence, strengthening retainers and producing robust reports on title—giving teams the knowledge they need to support fee‑earners and deliver a safer, smoother client experience.

Avoiding Negligence Claims in Residential Long Leases
2026-02-12 12:30 - 13:30
Attendees will as a result of this webinar will learn –
• What is currently causing claims in leasehold conveyancing transactions?
• Steps to be taken to ensure buyer clients understand the risks associated with leasehold ownership.
• Problems with repair, service charge and user covenants in residential leases.
• The problems with forfeiture
• Best practice on dealing with the TA7 when acting for the seller and buyer.
• How to approach BSA related transactions to avoid claims and complaints.
Level – Intermediate
Suitable for all residential conveyancers undertaking residential leasehold transactional work.

Getting Ready for the Revised TA 6
2026-03-03 13:00 - 14:00
Given the proximity of the 1st March 2026 and the mandatory use of the revised TA 6 for CQS accredited firms this webinar looks at the implications of the use of this form for sellers, buyers and their conveyancers.
Attendees will as a result of this webinar will learn –
• The format of the revised TA 6
• Using the explanatory notes
• Advising the seller
• Advising the buyer
• Amending the retainer and the retainer to be revised TA6 compliant
Level – Intermediate
Suitable for all residential conveyancers.
Course fee is per person

Recent Developments in Residential Conveyancing
2026-04-14 11:00 - 12:00
This 60 minute webinar is suitable for residential conveyancers of all levels and experience and will explore:

The Renters Rights Act 2025 – tips and traps for conveyancers.
The Leasehold and Freehold Reform Act 2024 – the impact on lease extensions.
The Commonhold and Leasehold Reform Bill 2026 – what does this mean for conveyancers.

Extensive notes will be provided and time allocated for delegate questions.

Assessing Mental Capacity
2026-05-27 10:00 - 10:30
A practical webinar aimed at understanding the principals of mental capacity and how to assess capacity for clients who may lack the capacity to make their own decisions.

Acting for Lenders - Best Practices
2026-06-23 10:00 - 11:00
This webinar is suitable for residential conveyancers of all levels and experience and will explore the following:

Complying with the Lenders Handbook – best practice and lessons from case law.
Dealing with the Certificate of Title – remembering the basics.
When and how to report on problems with the title.
Dealing with defective title insurance.
Acting for co-owners and joint borrowers – issues to look out for.

Extensive notes will be provided and time allocated for delegate questions.

Advising on Restrictive Covenants in Residential Conveyancing - Tips and Traps
2026-07-21 11:00 - 12:00
This webinar is suitable for residential conveyancers of all levels and experience and will explore –

Drafting and advising on restrictive covenants – getting the basics right
Nuisance covenants and covenants preventing development – avoiding problems
Are restrictive covenants set in stone? an overview of applications under S84 LPA 1925 and buying out covenants
Using defective title insurance
Lessons from recent case law

Shared Ownership Leases
2026-08-04 11:00 - 12:00
This webinar is suitable for residential conveyancers of all levels and experience and will explore:

An overview of a purchase of a shared ownership leasehold transaction
Key clauses in shared ownership lease
Advising the new leaseholder
Problems with staircasing
Avoiding claims and complaints

Extensive notes will be provided and time allocated for delegate questions.

Selling and Buying Mixed Use Properties
2026-09-17 11:00 - 12:00
This webinar is suitable for residential conveyancers acting in connection with mixed used properties and will explore:

Scoping the retainer and reporting on title – tips and traps.
Documentation – which standard conditions should be used or should we use TA forms or CPSE’s.
Fixtures and fittings
Planning and licensing issues
Dealing with tenancies
SDLT considerations

Extensive notes will be provided and time allocated for delegate questions.
