80% are confident in the leadership of their firm to create and run a modem digital business – Advanced Legal survey shows

Key to every successful technology implementation is leadership. Senior leaders need to be digitally-minded and see the value in new tools otherwise, as our report reveals, they will hold their businesses back from modernising. Nearly half (47 per cent) agree the most important attribute for a business leader in the digital era is the ability […]

Advanced Legal survey reports 73% are now seeing cloud technology in their daily working lives

Nearly a third (29 per cent) of respondents are seeing chatbots in their daily working lives (up from 18 per cent last year), while 25 per cent are seeing wearable technology (up from 17 per cent last year). An impressive 38 per cent are seeing AI in their daily working lives – a 12 per […]

Only 27% say their firms are early adopters of technology – Advanced Legal survey highlights

Technology has long promised to future-proof organisations, and we are now seeing the adoption of innovative solutions to meet evolving business needs. Some organisations are further ahead in the journey than others. In fact, 12 per cent of our survey respondents would describe their organisation as innovators, while 16 per cent would say their organisation […]

iTrain Legal: Free guides to remote working

Remote working has suddenly become the new norm yet for so many of us it poses some unique challenges. From the start, the team at iTrain Legal have been remote workers so we thought we’d share some of our knowledge and training tips and tricks to make your journey as smooth as possible. We’d also like to […]

Databarracks: Pandemic management – an operational approach

Few organisations were prepared for a pandemic of this scale or one that could last for months. With everyone currently striving to deal with the Coronavirus outbreak, we want to help in any way we can. We’re therefore making our Business Continuity as a Service Pandemic Planning documentation available for free. As organisations move to working from […]

Advanced Legal survey reveals 40% said their firm isn’t prepared, or they don’t know if it is prepared, for a potential cyber-attack

The threat of an impending cyber-attack continues. While we don’t intend to scaremonger, it is necessary that we stress the risks that businesses are facing. Our report shows just how important it is for organisations to prioritise security – and be prepared for an attack. More businesses are beginning to recognise they are not immune […]

Repstor: 5 ways law firms can maintain control of client matter management as Microsoft Teams use Proliferates

Microsoft Teams is fast becoming the default collaboration environment across all sorts of organisations. More than 20 million people using it daily now, and legal professionals are no exception. Indeed, use of Teams by law firms and corporate legal departments has risen sharply, as the platform becomes a hub for project, practice area and client/matter-related […]

HBR Consulting law firm cloud strategy: More than “cloud first”

Law firm cloud adoption continues to rise, with 72% of firms reporting they expect their adoption of cloud-based solutions to increase in the coming year, according to the 2019 ILTA Technology Survey. The potential economic benefits of the cloud have always been attractive: the substitution of operating expenses for traditional capital intensity; the scalability of […]

HBR Consulting: The top three priorities for your law firm’s procurement function in 2020

It is no secret that law firms today face an increasingly competitive environment. Between accelerating pressure from alternative legal service providers and startup firms, new regulatory expectations with dire penalties, economic forecasts predicting rough seas ahead and clients demanding ever-greater services (at ever-lower costs) from their legal advisors, firms must find ways to eke out […]

Getting Off the Treadmill: Finding IT’s next path with HBR Consulting

Market forces are beginning to push law firm IT functions to manage in a more complex environment, but also to continuously evolve and enhance the enablement of practice delivery. Attorneys are more mobile and more connected. Clients are more demanding, with more data, integration and interactions. Technology is evolving at a faster pace with more […]