Che Shing Li, Managing Director at Hodgkinsons Solicitors, explains how CascadeGo has revolutionised his firm’s HR practices. Lincolnshire-based firm Hodgkinsons Solicitors is vying to become the numberone legal business for client service in the county. The key to this goal, from the firm’s perspective, is using technology to improve the business’s processes – enabling greater […]

Paul Lowe, partnership secretary at Wiggin Osborne Fullerlove, on how Timeslice’s Lawman practice management system helps the firm better service its clients. Business change and technological transformation sometimes come about owing to an emergent business need, or the ever-present race with competition. Wiggin Osborne Fullerlove (WOF) found itself in need of a new practice management […]

Russell & Russell Solicitors have modernised their practice management with ALB from Advanced. In this case study we discover how ALB has helped to build on their success as a firm. Background The traditions and values, which first established Russell & Russell as an early pioneer of legal services continues to serve them well today. […]

Tikit, a global provider of technology solutions to legal firms, today announced that GT Stewart won the ‘Access to Justice through IT’ award at the LALY awards last night using their innovative software; Tikit Formshare. Tikit Formshare enables firms to use Adobe PDF Forms as a method of electronically capturing data. Forms, such as police […]

When starting a new business, it is essential to get the right tools. The demands on law firms these days is far greater than they ever used to be and standing out amongst the crowd has to be a priority. Clearly, hard work is a huge factor and when the director’s at Blackfriars law set […]

About Winckworth Sherwood A member of the Legal 500 UK and relied on by some of the UK’s largest organisations, Winckworth Sherwood (WS) is a full-service law firm with a diverse client base. Since as far back as 1777 the firm has established its reputation for delivering high levels of client service in high value, […]

Hempsons, an award-winning health and social care law firm, has chosen Aderant Expert as its practice management platform. The leading firm, with a nearly 130-year history, needed increased support for its more than 120 lawyers across several UK offices. Aderant was the firm’s clear choice to boost profitability, streamline workflow processes, and manage transactions. “Given […]

Leading legal technology innovator Zylpha has collaborated with internationally recognised law firm Kingsley Napley to develop an innovative new document bundling toolset. Amongst the all-new functionality is a unique ‘Bundle Import Tool’. This makes it easy for Kingsley Napley to partition incoming bundles, according to specific documents or sections, when adding files to their own bundles. […]

William Heelis met Beatrix Potter (the Children’s author) when she visited his office looking for legal advice over a property purchase. They soon married, and the firm founded by William, Temple Heelis solicitors has now been established for almost 200 years. With offices in some of the most beautiful parts of the UK across the […]

The dynamic firm started its search for a document management system way back in 2014. Today everybody at Ploum uses NetDocuments whether a fee earner or a finance, marketing or HR professional. Challenge: The Need for Change Ploum wanted to make its document management more efficient, easier and flexible, recognising the importance of finding a […]

Where We Were Winckworth Sherwood (WS) was using a Microsoft SharePoint 2013 based solution as its Document Management System (DMS). The SharePoint-based system Macroview was first implemented in 2010. Following an IT review in 2015, WS decided that the current platform was no longer meeting the needs of a growing business and not the solution […]

Burt Brill & Cardens Limited is the latest law firm to sign up to Quill’s Interactive legal accounting software. With a rigid timeframe for implementation, dictated by the end-of-contract date for its legacy legal accounts system, the practice went live in April 2019. Ross Auld, Chief Operating Officer at Burt Brill & Cardens, describes the […]

With Making Tax Digital (MTD) for VAT now mandatory for businesses with an annual taxable turnover of £85,000, Russell & Co Solicitors, a long-established law firm based in Great Malvern, is ready to process its next VAT submission according to HMRC’s MTD scheme thanks to its outsourced cashiering and software provider, Quill. Brian Herdman, Practice […]