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Starter Pack

Free of charge visit from a qualified Lexcel Assessor
Quarterly Lexcel Matters emailed to Recognising Excellence Clients
Webinar on Remote Assessments
Webinar on GDPR + free 20 minute telephone consultation
Webinar on Tools to Enhance Financial Stability

Webinar on The Lexcel Process from Pre-Assessment to Re-Assessment

Webinar on Lexcel V5.1 International

Lexcel Starter Pack

Signposting to Lexcel Consultants

Lexcel Webinar

The new version of the Lexcel standard (‘v6.1’) became mandatory for all assessments taking place from 1 November 2018. V6.1 reflects recent changes to AML regulations. And, it places a significant emphasis upon compliance with GDPR/data protection; compliance with which we know is of great concern to many legal practices and departments.

In response to demand from clients who were unable to attend our Lexcel V6.1 Training events we recorded a webinar covering the Introduction to Lexcel V6.1.

We have created a new webinar on ‘Preparing for a Lexcel Assessment and The Application Process’ which is free of charge to all organisations looking to move forward to Certification. If you are, and you would like a free copy please email marian.moir@recognisingexcellence.co.uk.

Additionally, if you are a potential new client to Recognising Excellence and you would like a no obligation quote email john.edwards@recognisingexcellence.co.uk.

The Lexcel V5.1 International webinar and all of the others mentioned are available to Recognising Excellences clients simply by emailing marian.moir@recognisingexcellence.co.uk.

The Lexcel V5.1 International webinar is available now so if you would like a copy please email marian.moir@recognisingexcellence.co.uk

Recognising Excellence is currently working in Partnership with an approved Cyber Essentials accreditation company ATG-IT to help you plan and implement all your cyber security needs. The main contact there is Steve McGowan and he can be contacted on steve.mcgowan@atg-it.co.uk or 01527 570535.

In the meantime, if you need any support with Cyber Essentials accreditation, I will be happy to help john.edwards@recognisingexcellence.co.uk.

Please feel free to get in touch if there’s anything we can help you with or are interested in a free of charge visit from an assessor.

Provides us with the assurance to our client we are practicing under professional standards and to an excellent standard. Neil is also great at understand our unique business being in-house to the NHS and is excellent at providing areas for improvement.

In what has been a challenging year for the Firm Lexcel has provided a touchstone for quality. In spite of an enforced move to different work arrangements standards have been maintained which is most gratifying.

It ensures we have systems in place enabling us to provide a high level of service to our clients, comply with the numerous regulations, and are efficient and continue to be profitable.

The Partners were all impressed with the fact that the assessor was well prepared, thorough and provided the Firm with useful and practical feedback.

I think my firm would have closed without the yearly guidance of Lexcel and the assessor. The programme means that you have clear goals for the firm to follow and this alone gives us something to attain.

Supports and encourages uniformity and maintaining standards of client care and risk assessment. It further supports and confirms our commitment to our team. The process itself has been a wonderful team effort, and success!

Ability to manage matters in an organised manner which in turn minimises the likelihood of complaints and negligence circumstances. It is a useful tool in providing excellent client care.

It is a requirement of our legal aid contract but we also find it invaluable in maintaining and improving the quality of our service.

The Lexcel Standard brings many benefits to our organisation – this has become particularly apparent during the pandemic when everyone was forced to work remotely. Lexcel ensured we had procedures and policies in place and we had excellent communication within and between teams. Our disaster recovery plan was easily adapted to cover COVID planning and it was extremely beneficial to have this.

Lexcel provides us with a firmwide platform which is solid in its foundations. Following the standards throughout a matter assures us that we are working within a required framework providing good quality legal work to our clients.

Lexcel brings a review of all of our systems throughout the year in preparation for our annual review. I can honestly say that if I didn’t have the review hanging over my head then I imagine that I would not be as proactive in doing as much as I do. Our assessor is more than an assessor, he has excellent people skills with all of the people that he speaks to in my firm. He does more than assess my business, he offers advice and is supportive in our endeavors guiding us where he can. In my opinion he is a credit to the organisation and a real pleasure to deal with.

Lexcel has enabled us to build a comprehensive set of policies and procedures which have become a well established focus of all our work leading to improved efficiency and more effective risk management. Staff have embraced Lexcel very positively – feedback is that they feel it gives them a stronger structure and they know exactly how to deal with situations and where to refer any issues.

We view the Lexcel standard not as simply a Quality Standard that we must comply with, but as an important tool to assist the firm in developing and moving forward, keeping our staff and clients interests and their security and welfare at its heart. We very much value any suggestions for best practice that are presented at the assessment.

Thank you very much once again for this year’s assessment. It is always such a pleasure to work with you and feedback from everyone involved with the assessment, particularly those who were interviewed is very encouraging. They find the experience quite daunting to begin with, but they always come away with a positive overall experience, and in most cases, they subsequently become our Lexcel champions! For example, the dispute resolution team members and family team members immediately made suggestions and tweaks to their working practices following their conversation with you.

The Lexcel standard ensures that we offer a high level of service to clients, that our employees are well trained and safeguarded and that the company is professionally run, financially viable and progressive.