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There’s no single moment where it becomes obvious. It’s more of a gradual accumulation of things that weren’t a problem six months ago and are now a problem every week. The evening catch-up sessions that started as occasional and are now just how things work. The file you took on three weeks ago that you’ve been meaning to chase up on but haven’t quite got to. The enquiry you had to turn away because you genuinely didn’t have capacity and said yes anyway and immediately regre

This is the post for the conveyancers who are reading this in June and realising the preparation they meant to get done in April and May didn’t quite happen the way they planned. You’re not alone. And you still have time to get the essentials in place, but not time to be relaxed about it. AML/CTF obligations commence 1 July. Here’s where most practices should actually be right now, and what to prioritise in the time that’s left. The non-negotiables for 1 July AUSTRAC registra

You know where their file is at. You’ve got it under control. Things are progressing exactly the way they should, and the silence from your end isn’t silence at all, it’s just that you’ve been managing four other active files simultaneously and the update email got pushed. Your client doesn’t know any of that. What they know is that they haven’t heard from their conveyancer in eight days, they’re in the middle of the most significant financial transaction of their life, and n

Not legal advice. AUSTRAC’s guidance for legal practitioners and your professional body are the authoritative reference for your specific obligations. This covers the practical preparation picture for sole operators. If you’ve been meaning to sort your AML preparation and haven’t quite got there yet, this is the post for you. And the news is: there’s still time to do this properly, but not time to keep putting it off. AML/CTF obligations for conveyancers commence 1 July 2026.

There’s a version of this that every sole operator conveyancer has lived through at least once. You’ve had a genuinely busy week. Back-to-back client calls, a complicated contract that needed more attention than expected, a settlement that nearly went sideways. By Friday afternoon you’ve handled all of it, but the coordination and follow-up work that was supposed to happen Tuesday through Thursday has been quietly accumulating in the background. The discharge authority that n

Not legal advice. For your specific obligations, AUSTRAC’s guidance for legal practitioners and your professional body are the authoritative reference. This covers the practical, day-to-day administrative reality of what the changes mean for sole operators. You’ve seen the communications from your professional body. You know AML/CTF obligations for conveyancers and legal practitioners commence 1 July 2026. You know AUSTRAC registration opened at the end of March. And if you

If you’ve been running a conveyancing practice for any length of time, you’ve probably had the thought. Not once, multiple times. Usually somewhere around the third evening in a row you’ve spent processing file notes that accumulated during the day, or the fourth time this week you’ve had to drop everything to chase a mortgage discharge authority that was supposed to arrive two days ago. You know you need help. The question is why you haven’t sorted it yet. And the honest ans

When you're running a sole operator or small conveyancing practice, doing everything yourself seems like the economical choice. You're saving money by not paying someone else, right? Except that's not actually how the maths works out when you look at the full picture. Every hour you spend on administrative coordination and follow-up is an hour you're not spending on billable work. It's an hour you can't charge for. It's an hour that doesn't generate revenue for your practice.

You know that feeling when you finish a full day of work, only to realise you've barely touched the actual conveyancing files sitting in front of you? Instead, you've spent hours chasing mortgage discharge authorities, following up on searches that should have arrived three days ago, and coordinating settlement times between banks that seem to exist in different time zones. If that sounds painfully familiar, you're not alone. And more importantly, you're not doing anything wr

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