Chadwick Lawrence switches to Solicitors Own Software’s SOS Connect

West Yorkshire law firm Chadwick Lawrence expects its new practice and case management system to deliver “significant benefits” after signing up to SOS Connect from Solicitors Own Software. The firm, which has seven offices across the county, offers a range of legal services for both personal and business matters and is one of the few law firms in the area which has specialist […]

iManage: Short-termist approach to AI tech buying will give way to strategic and rational adoption in 2019

In the legal sector, 2018 saw artificial intelligence (AI) climb to the top of many law firms’ agenda, driven by the lure of the business benefits this new technology potentially offers alongside organisations’ perceived need to ‘innovate’. In 2019, the following trends will shape the adoption of this technology: Sharp contraction in point solution buying […]

Quill: 3 easy changes to make in 2019 instead of hard-to-keep New Year’s resolutions

New Year’s resolutions are notoriously hard to keep, with the majority of people failing to stick to them for longer than a few weeks. That’s because they’re often too vague or too monumental. While resolutions tend to centre on your personal goals, usually involving losing weight, exercising and saving more, they’re important from a business […]

iManage – Unravelling the Labyrinth of AI Myths: AI does not learn by itself

AI Needs Training Encouraged by media portrayals of AI, a widespread myth is that AI simply learns by itself. For example, a common misconception represents AI as a digital brain that can be plugged and played into a given scenario, learning to solve X, Y, Z challenges on its own. Such representations are based on […]

DocsCorp document productivity suite now supports Office 2019

DocsCorp, a leading provider of enterprise productivity solutions, today announced that its desktop productivity suite is compatible with Office 2019. For customers using the cloud, DocsCorp solutions are also Office 365 compatible. The DocsCorp suite of productivity tools include compareDocs for document comparison, cleanDocs for data breach prevention and metadata cleaning, and pdfDocs for PDF […]

Quill’s Christmas decorations competition

Quill’s hosted a ‘deck your desks’ Christmas decorating contest for the second year running to bring some festive cheer to its offices and encourage healthy competition between its teams to win the coveted ‘best dressed desks’ award. With no limit on what they could do and a £30 budget to go shopping, each team chose […]

HBR Consulting: Seven steps to improve law firm compliance with outside counsel guidelines

Back in the day, law firms and clients usually set forth the terms governing their relationships in standard engagement letters. But more recently, as bargaining power has shifted away from law firms and toward clients, organizations have begun to document their expectations for outside counsel in increasingly long and detailed guidelines. While these expanded guidelines […]

LegalRM expand with the recruitment of two new members of staff

 LegalRM Limited, experts in records management and information governance solutions to law firms are delighted to announce the expansion of their team, with the recruitment of Agnes Wills and Georgina Jacobs, to complement the existing team. “Both Agnes and Georgina have been bought on board to fill two new roles within our growing organisation”, commented […]

HBR Consulting: Three steps to gain firm leaders’ buy-in for procurement investments

HBR recently held its annual Procurement Roundtable, an invitation-only gathering of 25+ law firm procurement leaders. In connection with the Roundtable, HBR surveyed the participants on a variety of procurement-related topics ranging from organizational information for benchmarking through current front-of-mind topics / priorities, including investment in procurement technology solutions. These technology solutions are a key […]

Top Scottish law firm Stronachs Implements iManage Work for document and email management

Move to iManage Cloud provides a future-proofed platform for document and email management iManage, the company dedicated to transforming how professionals work, today announced that Stronachs LLP – one of Scotland’s leading independent law firms – has selected iManage Work for its document and email management, all in the iManage Cloud. “The goal was to move […]