LPM April 2018: Deregulation – The right direction?

This month, LPM magazine finds out how SME firms might take advantage of deregulation Download your FREE copy now Feature: Solicitors will soon be allowed to work for unregulated firms while retaining their professional title – will these reforms tempt law firms to ditch practice-wide regulation? Richard Parnham reports Hard knocks: Richard Clark, COO at Manchester-based CFG Law, on […]

Dashboards: a game changer for legal operations, according to HBR Consulting

Last month, I had the pleasure of moderating an excellent panel at the Consero Legal Operations Forum entitled “Dashboards & Portals: Leveraging Existing Operational Investments for Greater Returns,” in Pasadena, CA.  My esteemed panelists included Scott Fuller from Applied Materials, Brian Pomeroy from Discover Financial Services, Elizabeth Miller from Dolby Laboratories, Julie Cremeans from Fair, and Emelita […]

Miller Insurance Services – obtaining PI insurance for a new law firm

  Miller’s Paddy Synnott, met with Richard Cramer, founder and partner of FrontRow Legal in Leeds, and talked to him about the highs and lows of setting up his own law firm including the difficulty in getting insured. What prompted you to go it alone? I originally set up my own practice in 2002, before […]

Information governance for law firms – how FileTrail automates IG (Part 3)

A few weeks ago, we launched a 3-part article series about information governance (IG) for law firms. Every year, IG is getting more complex. As a result, even when law firms successfully launch IG programs they are often unable to follow through on implementation. High overhead costs and detailed manual procedures mean that compliance with IG policies […]

Gender pay legislation could spark profound workplace movement, says Cascade HR

The effects of the new gender pay reporting legislation due next week will be staggering and long-lasting, believes Oliver Shaw, CEO of Cascade HR. In fact, the degree of exploitation that the law could uncover, may well be as profound in impact as the #MeToo movement that rocked the workplace in late 2017. Here, he […]

SeeUnity guidance: How to gain user adoption

Many times, organisations implement systems that users never adopt. This is a common challenge across industries and very much so in the ECM space. In this blog, we are going to provide a few tips for how you can increase user adoption of various systems across your organisation. 1.     Involve users One of the biggest […]

SeeUnity: Are you sure your content lives in ECM/DM?

We’ve talked in the past about file sharing and collaboration and the problems that can arise from letting your employees decide how they want to do this. In our Navigating the Hurdles of Synchronization whitepaper, we use the example of when lawyers were working in a conference room that had a public Wi-Fi to share content with […]

How Quill achieve growth through efficiencies

2017 was yet another successive year of strong growth for Quill clients. That’s according to analysis undertaken by Quill using 4 years’ worth of anonymised accounts billings data for a sample of over 400 legal software and outsourced cashiering service clients. Some key findings from Quill’s research of law firms’ financial performance are:- 22% increase in average […]

Aderant say that the secret to lateral hiring success in law firms rests in preparation

Article by Derek Schutz, Product Manager Business Intelligence, Aderant “Fortune favors the prepared mind.” – Louis Pasteur   It’s almost an annual affair in the legal community. By the second quarter of every year, we see a series of reports on lateral hiring in law firms. Each year, these reports seemingly draw similar conclusions: While lateral […]

Briefing April 2018: Future frontiers

Frontiers runners  Who’s exploring the technology today to transform their businesses tomorrow?   Download your copy now for FREE  What’s in this month’s issue?    The big interviews: Leaders at IBM, law firm K&L Gates, Deloitte and BT discuss going further in the realms of artificial intelligence, blockchain, agile working and robotic process automation.  The main event: All the highlights from a […]