Russell & Co complies to Making Tax Digital reform with help from Quill
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 […]
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Saul Ewing’s iManage cloud database consolidation a successful industry first
Innovative team uses SeeUnity’s Velocity content migration tool to accomplish a groundbreaking project Industries challenges With a client-centric commitment to excellence in mind, Saul Ewing LLP merged with Arnstein & Lehr LLP in September of 2017, providing their clients with expanded capabilities and greater depth in key practice areas. The merger happened to […]
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Parkview Solicitors enhances case management and drives productivity with Insight Legal software
Parkview Solicitors is the employer to an expanding team split across its two sites in the North of England. The practice needed a user-friendly and centralised system designed to improve file organisation for its 16 members of staff and help them to manage caseloads and accounts easily and effectively through an on-premise platform. Aslam Khan, […]
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As some wise person once said, necessity is often the mother of invention. Stephen Allen, global head of legal operations and innovation lead at Hogan Lovells, explains that Clocktimizer, which his firm has been using to wrangle and enrich its data stores, was created by a former corporate lawyer at DLA Piper, who found himself […]
READ MORE >> Quill’s overflow typing support for Robert Simmons Solicitors
With a flourishing conveyancing department and administration team at full capacity, long-standing Quill client, Robert Simmons Solicitors, utilises the Quill Type outsourced typing service for overflow support. “Conveyancing is our busiest area,” explains Stuart Jones, conveyancer at Robert Simmons. “As anyone who operates in this field knows, there are seasonal fluctuations causing peaks and troughs […]
READ MORE >> Quill Payroll provides long-term fix to cashier problem at MPP Solicitors
When MPP Solicitors first became a Quill client, for legal accounts software only initially, the practice employed its own cashier. Responsible mainly for managing its accounts on Quill’s software, another facet of its cashier’s role was processing the firm’s payroll. The internal structure changed when its cashier retired, as explained by Allan Hunt, Senior Partner […]
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How an ISO 27001 certified law firm manages the risk of data breaches
In 2016 ByrneWallace became the first large firm in Ireland to have ISO 27001 certification. Firms with ISO 27001 certification must have a totally comprehensive system of security measures that extend beyond just IT. Now, of course, the firm has to ensure it complies with the GDPR as well as. Part of ByrneWallace’s security […]
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By consolidating its technology vendors, ByrneWallace was able to streamline the user experience and make major improvements to solutions depended upon by staff every single day. ByrneWallace improved its redaction workflows, document comparison speed and accuracy, and data protection, so it is more easily able to meet the requirements for ISO 27001 and GDPR […]
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Accidental human errors are increasingly leading to serious data breaches – a worrying prospect for law firms. Sam Moore, innovation manager and solicitor at Burness Paull, explains how his firm uses DocsCorp products to reduce these risks, improving lawyers’ quality of life in the process. When, in early 2019, news broke that Paul Manafort’s lawyers […]
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Anatomy of a technology refresh
Planning calms the nerves Included in all our Qworks comprehensive managed IT services contracts is a technology refresh after four years. Although contracts are typically much longer, our experience determines that this is the optimum time to change all the equipment and exploit newer technologies. This is a daunting process for any client. But our […]
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