Aderant expands Expert Sierra to the United Kingdom and Continental Europe

Aderant, a global industry leader in providing comprehensive business management software for law firms and other professional services organisations, is now offering Aderant Expert as a cloud service in the United Kingdom and Continental Europe. The cloud-based option of Expert – Expert Sierra –has seen significant client growth in North America over the past two […]

Actionstep: Law firms offered free cloud-based software to help them through the Covid-19 crisis

Actionstep, a leading cloud-based legal practice management software provider, is offering free access to its secure cloud-based legal practice management software to law firms that are struggling to enable remote working amid the current COVID-19 pandemic. The purpose of the offer is to give law firms of any size, who are not currently using a […]

Repstor: Tax law firm, Atlas, transforms client, matter and project management with Custodian for Legal™

Repstor, the ECM software and matter management specialist, today unveiled its latest flagship European customer, Atlas, an independent tax law firm in the Netherlands, which has transformed its approach to business with Custodian for Legal. Following the formation of a strategic alliance with Tiberghien, another leading tax law firm with a strong presence in Belgium and […]

DPS Software: How law firms can help alleviate pressures on their fee earners

Stress seems to come with the territory of going to work and earning a living. Sometimes a little short-term stress can be a good thing because it helps people achieve a goal, meet a deadline or find the courage to try something new. But when stress becomes a regular feature of our lives and starts […]

Quill: Action for Children is our new charity of the year

With the beginning of the new financial year getting closer, we’ve chosen our new charity of the year for 2020-21. For the next 12 months, we’ll be actively fundraising for Action for Children. Should you not already be familiar with the charity, Action for Children helps children and young people with practical and emotional care and […]

Insights for law firms from HBR’s 2019 Law Department Survey

Now in its 16th year, HBR Consulting’s Law Department Survey continues to serve as the leading source of market data on law department staffing, spending and management trends. It provides law departments with metrics to measure, manage and communicate their performance and to plan for continuous improvement. For law firms, the Survey serves as the “voice of […]

HBR Consulting: A look forward and back

This has been a transformative decade for the legal industry – and for HBR Consulting, as well. At the outset of the current decade, the legal industry was beginning to emerge from a recession. The decade saw a growing focus on value in legal service delivery, the rise of legal operations as a discipline, an […]

Accesspoint Legal Services talks automated forms in Legal Aid

Legal aid firms often face the dilemma of increasing their workforce or having to exhaust the firm’s resources, all in the name of getting the job done, which then takes a toll on their already cut budget. Now, it is more important than ever to evaluate the sector and look for ways to adapt with […]

Quill update: Staff have reverted to a working-from-home model for the foreseeable future

Over the course of the past few weeks, we’ve been preparing for the increasingly inevitable point at which we close our offices and operate from home. Following the government’s advice yesterday that employees should work from home where possible, we’ve decided to reduce our office staffing to a tiny skeleton number with everyone else operating […]

FileTrail expands global account management and business development team in the US and UK

FileTrail, the leader in next-generation information governance and records management software for law firms, today announced that the company has hired Keith Schneider, a senior sales executive formerly with NetDocuments and LexisNexis, as a strategic account manager. In addition, the company has engaged Jon Roscow of Laureus Consulting in the UK to build awareness for […]