Salesforce: Blazing business trails

The business of being a business isn’t easy. Often, companies need professional, legal, real estate, recruitment and education services to navigate challenges. This series delves into the challenges and opportunities faced by the companies providing those business services.

Access Legal: Don’t be a victim to money laundering

Money laundering is very much in the legal news at the moment, especially as the Solicitors Regulation Authority is continuing with its thematic reviews looking at AML compliance within law firms; its most recent review looked into 74 firms and found some major failings, including inadequate training, no firm-wide risk assessments in place, and issues around source of funds checks.

InfoTrack webinar: Search delay insurance: The 3 C’s – cover, claims and common misconceptions.

InfoTrack is delighted to be joined by Steve Johnson, National Key Account Manager and Ellie Steele, Senior Underwriter, at CLS to review the Covid-19 Search Insurance policy that was launched during the pandemic last year.

BlackBoiler: 2021 capabilities overview

BlackBoiler is revolutionising the contract review and markup process with its patented Automated Contract Markup technology, helping companies manage and negotiate contracts in a fraction of time.

Insight Legal Software in partnership with The Law Society – Risk and compliance webinar

The issues of meeting risk and compliance regulatory requirements are always of the utmost importance to law firms, but never more so than when your fee earners and finance staff are working remotely.

Salesforce webinar: Becoming a client-centric law firm

Law firms are progressively beginning to embrace a more client-centric approach to strengthen the relationship with their clients and prospects and become more value-focused, where their value is defined at the intersection of branding, client relationships, differentiation, and added-value services.

Briefing April 2021: Uncompromised access, by Access Legal

Summer 2020 was a busy time for Doug Sawers, managing director at Access Group’s newest division, Access Legal. Putting the pandemic aside, Access Group acquired two law tech companies in quick succession: case and practice management provider Eclipse, acquired in June, and SaaS practice management provider DPS Software a month later.

Briefing April 2021: Solve the profitability problem, by LexisNexis

Innovation usually involves taking at least some risk. Will your new business idea or process work? And will it stick? Achieving return on investment – money and time – will depend on both. Law firms clearly need to remain as open as possible to alternatives as they navigate the challenges in our dramatically changed business landscape, but may find their risk appetites have also altered somewhat.

Briefing April 2021: Save the data, by Salesforce

Many law firms report managing very similar challenges and priorities over the last year, with much emphasis on adapting to change. One company sure to be keeping a close eye on the reality of that is the giant of client experience Salesforce, which recently saw a first magic-circle firm move to take advantage of its cloud-based platform.

Briefing April 2021: Channel crossing, by Seeunity

Law firms around the world have had their work cut out managing the new ways their people suddenly needed to collaborate during the pandemic. However, Dan Anderson, CEO of system integration specialist SeeUnity, says the path to maximising investment in a platform such as Microsoft Teams is not entirely new.