The Oyez Information Security Management System is a comprehensive toolkit that takes your organisation through the process step-by-step and allows you to develop a fully compliant information system in an easy-to-follow, methodical manner.
This White Paper summarises how law firms are regulated in the UK and suggests 5 steps you can take towards keeping your legal practice on the right side of the legislation.
As every timekeeper knows, accurately recording billable time is a necessary evil, whether it’s done contemporaneously or by reconstructing the day. So, adding the burden of making a record of what timekeepers have done to further the well-being of the firm brings its own particular issues.
This month we take a cross-topic look at risk management, from how outcomes-focused regulation will affect PII, to how firms can turn processes into compliance. Interview: A&O’s head of risk and compliance, Heather McCallum, talks to Briefing about how risk is changing in today’s top firms, and why globalisation and client needs are driving grander changes than local regulation can ever make. Feature: The first year of the rest of our lives? Philip Hoult reports on how a new regulatory environment is yet another challenge to today’s law firm risk management leader – and how the legal industry is changing to adapt.
LSN's infographic on risk management and compliance in today's top 100 law firms shows where legal business is doing well, and where it's not. Download and absorb our fabulous graphic knowledge, today.
As Joanna Sedley-Burke, Business Development Director, Sovereign Business Integration, explains, choosing the right data centre is not just about buying efficient, secure and high performing technology – that should be a given; it is about asking tough questions to find a business partner that can proactively offer the skills required to support what is a mission critical, strategic business decision.
There can be no doubt that 2012 will be a challenging year, and we think it’s very much going to be a ‘keeping the lights on’ type of year for legal firms, with a continued focus on profitability, risk & exposure management plus sensible expansion (where possible) combined with continued cost management and outsourcing initiatives.