Quill’s guide to starting your own law firm: top 10 compliance mistakes

Many budding lawyers will tell you that starting your own law firm is not for the faint-hearted. Here are 10 compliance mistakes we most commonly see new start-ups make and how you can avoid making them: 1. Not paying attention to the latest SRA Accounts Rules: The SRA regularly updates its rules, and it’s up […]

Quill’s guide to starting your own law firm

This blog is based on our ’15-Step Guide to Starting Your Own Law Firm’ webinar on November 12, 2020. To download the e-Book we shared with listeners, visit www.quill.co.uk/Legalpracticemanagementforstartups. Starting your own law firm is an appealing and rewarding way to make a living – and a life – but it can seem like a pipe dream. […]

How to create a connected client experience in 2021

In 2020, law firms around the world faced the sudden upheaval of business-as-usual. The traditional office environment quickly became the kitchen table and firms were charged with finding new ways of maintaining business continuity in a socially distanced world.  As we close out the year, many firms are preoccupied with how best to return to […]

Remote working and information governance: How FileTrail can help

With so many people working from home due to the global health crisis, IT, security and information governance teams are reevaluating ways to ensure that employees (and contractors) are following best practices in information handling. Many organizations have updated their information governance policies and delivered additional training to remote staff, and are implementing new systems […]

Sysero: How to build a thriving legal knowledge library

There’s no shortage of information available within the walls of the modern law firm. However, the true challenge for lawyers is being able to quickly locate the vital piece of know-how that will transform their interaction with a client.  As the keepers of the firm’s collective knowledge, today’s knowledge managers play a crucial role in […]

Solicitors accounts rules expert joins Legal Eye

Experienced Finance Director and law firm accounts and finance expert Fran Gibbons has joined Legal Eye to expand the firm’s risk and compliance services. Fran brings over 30 years of experience as a senior leader in law firms to Legal Eye. During her career she has led and implemented financial transformation strategies whilst ensuring that […]

Conscious Solutions: Law firm directory submissions

Do you need help preparing, reviewing, editing or submitting your submissions to the Legal Directories like Legal 500 and Chambers? Are you not getting the rankings year on year that you know that your specialist departments deserve? Do you understand the research process of legal directory rankings? If the answer is no, then we can […]

SeeUnity: Eliminate manual processes and free up IT resources

Introducing Echo Automate – A Major Echo Content Synchronization Product Add-on Designed to Simplify the Management of Large-scale Content Synchronization Workflows The existing Echo Content Synchronization product is designed to synchronize document-oriented content between several different repositories. For system rules, an administrator typically selects the source and target locations to be synchronized, then specifies what […]

DPS Software: Completing client due diligence from home

As it’s nearly Christmas, let’s start with a Christmas Cracker joke. Q: What did the unscrupulous solicitor get for Christmas? A: Suspended by the SRA for not completing Client Due Diligence adequately while working from home. I know, don’t give up the day job, but I’m sure by now you get the point of this […]

Naq Cyber: Get wise to the threat of business email compromise [and CEO fraud]

Google ‘phishing statistics’ every now and then and you’ll find one or two credible industry reports, plus a whole list of cyber security vendors publishing numbers that sound altogether out of reach. If the cost of this threat is so high, surely cyber criminals won’t target any organization who can’t afford the cost of the […]