Cascade’s wellbeing advice sought by national business media
Following the publication of Cascade’s Stress Report 2018, our HR Business Partner Emily Cryan was approached by Elite Franchise magazine to answer a number of questions about wellbeing in the workplace. You can read her thoughts in full, here… Why should employers be mindful of their employees’ mental health? There is so much to say […]
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Most solicitors will accept an early renewal offer for professional indemnity (PI) insurance if given the opportunity, rather than go to the open market to find a new policy, according to a survey conducted by Miller of law firms. An overwhelming 98% of respondents said they were likely to take up a PI insurance renewal deal […]
READ MORE >>How well are enquiries from your website being responded to?
When law firms first started to promote themselves online their websites were little more than brochures. “This is who we are, this is where to find us and you can phone or email us for more information.” Many firms have now developed a much more interactive experience for clients and potential clients, but for others […]
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Brand new research from business continuity and disaster recovery firm, Databarracks, has revealed organisational confidence in IT backup capabilities has risen dramatically over the past decade. Over 50 per cent of organisations feel ‘very confident’ in the state of their backup solutions, which is up from 33 per cent in 2008. First released 10 years ago, […]
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The Hearing, part three – A legal podcast from Thomson Reuters
Hosted by social media commentator and employment lawyer Kevin Poulter (@kevinpoulter), The Hearing provides an unprecedented view into the most interesting people and topics in and around the legal industry. Sometimes serious, sometimes irreverent, but always informative, insightful and entertaining. Our third episode features British politician, Lord Michael Howard of Lympne about Brexit, politics, Liverpool Football […]
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It’s been about a year and a half since Gartner retired the term “Enterprise Content Management” and replaced it with “Content Services.” We have talked in the past about what Content Services is and why Gartner has shifted their terminology away from ECM. If you are unfamiliar with the subject you can read about it here. […]
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The state of affairs for the business of law in Europe
Technology isn’t replacing people in laws firms, but it is changing the roles people fulfill within those firms. That’s Eric-Jan van Alten’s observation, who has spent the better part of 20 years working with law firms from around the globe. While he’s a native of the Netherlands, he previously spent several years with us in Atlanta […]
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Independent law firms failing to adapt to client-driven culture
Almost three-quarters of lawyers in small firms report clash between client-driven market and traditional role of solicitor, yet over two thirds failing to adapt or evolve business strategy. A new survey published (The Bellwether Report 2018: The Culture Clash – Solicitor Confidence vs Client Power) by LexisNexis UK, a leading global provider of information and […]
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Taking corporate legal operations to the next level: moving from ‘advanced’ to ‘mature’
This is the final article in a three-part series of blog posts designed to help corporate law departments take their operations up a notch. In Part One, we provided an overview of maturity models for six of the twelve CLOC Core Competencies that we reviewed with participants in HBR’s educational program at the 2018 CLOC Institute. […]
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Unlocking the potential of your case management solution …
Whether you’re looking for a case management solution right now or acquired one many years ago, you’ll want it to deliver on its potential to support your own business processes. When it does, the benefits to your management team and lawyers alike are mind-blowing. But case management systems out-of-the-box are a vanilla offering; it’s the […]
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