HBR Consulting: Law firm of the future: The time is now

The COVID pandemic has created a state of uncertainty and upheaval across the world. It has shaken the economy and businesses to their very foundations. The legal sector is at a crossroad—a reckoning. The pandemic has laid bare historical ways of work across all that law firms do, client facing and everything that supports it. […]

Read HBR Consulting’s 2021 law firm procurement priorities

Last year, in The Top Three Priorities for Your Law Firm’s Procurement Function in 2020, we recommended that law firm procurement offices prepare for a recession and promote the value of the procurement function to the organization as a whole. While we certainly did not foresee in any detail what 2020 would bring—a global pandemic, social […]

Read HBR Consulting’s 2020 law firm procurement survey

HBR Consulting’s annual Law Firm Procurement Survey is designed to equip law firm leaders with a point of reference for advancing the role of procurement and an industry baseline to benchmark against their peers. In addition, the survey provides insight into relevant trends and challenges facing the broader legal industry each year. The 2020 survey […]

Clocktimizer: Why your pricing and legal project management teams should be communicating

Over the past months, we’ve been hosting a number of webinars with widely respected Legal Project Management, Pricing, and C-Suite professionals. While they have shared a whole host of useful insights, one thing that has linked their advice has been the need for communication between the moving parts of a firm. For many law firms, […]

DPS Software: Prepare your people, protect your data, preserve your law firm reputation

The professional reputation of any law firm plays a critical role in their continued success. A strong reputation attracts people, clients and long-term relationships. But reputations can be fragile. As Warren Buffett said: “It takes 20 years to build a reputation and 5 minutes to ruin it.” With law firms handling the most sensitive, and […]

Want to derive greater value from technology? Read what Wilson Allen has to say

A technology project is a success only when it’s well-conceived, planned, and implemented – and when the users fully adopt the new system. Adoption only happens when communication, training, and support are equally well-conceived, planned, and implemented. And with the proliferation of applications, the complexity of business processes, and more stringent requirements around information governance, […]

Sysero: What’s next for legal transformation?

While law firms have been on the path towards a more digital-driven approach for several years, the arrival of the pandemic has accelerated digital transformation across the legal sector. In some markets, like the Nordics, law firms have been working with technology to transform the service delivery process and enhance collaboration with clients. In others, law firms […]

Enable: Why ease of use in digital adoption is key

This year has definitely been a year of change, and in many respects this has highlighted gaps in business processes that previously were overlooked, forcing a review of systems and how they can be more efficient and changed for the better. For law firms, this is especially true. Whilst most firms likely have a digital […]

FileTrail: Managing information governance and retention in 2021

With more employees and clients than ever working remotely, all signs point to a more paperless future. But is your organisation doing everything it can to manage and protect electronic and physical records? The global pandemic has accelerated the move to more agile ways of working, including greater reliance on electronic documents. However, many organisations […]

Legal Eye: Too early to think about PII renewals?

Many firms with a 1 October 2020 renewal date were more anxious than they may have been in previous years about their ability to secure cover and to negotiate a competitive premium as they waited to see how Covid-19 would affect premiums. Now we are in the run up to April and the pandemic has […]