What the Chancellor’s Spring Statement means for the employment landscape

Article written by Oliver Shaw, CEO of CascadeHR It may only have lasted 26 minutes, but chancellor Philip Hammond’s inaugural Spring Statement included a number of very encouraging points. Critics were quick to criticise Philip Hammond’s first Spring Statement. But that is perhaps simply the nature of politics. If an impartial party carefully dissects the 26-minute […]

The main differences between the DPD and GDPR

The aim of the GDPR is to enable the people of the EU to better control their personal data. We will talk about specific ways the GDPR will do that in this whitepaper. The change came as 67% of Europeans expressed that they were concerned about not having control over their personal data and information […]

File sharing is here to stay.

Are you struggling with file sharing? You are not alone.Most large organizations are currently fighting the battle between the many different file shares their employees use. Recently, Verizon’s data was nearly compromised by the accidental upload of the data to a public cloud file share by a third party. Issues like this can span across […]

Miller Insurance Services: are you ready for GDPR?

The General Data Protection Regulation comes into effect across the European Union on May 25. It replaces the UK’s Data Protection Act 1998 (DPA) – and will bring data privacy up to date in the digital age. Brexit will not affect the new regulation as the government has confirmed it will fully incorporate it into […]

“LegalKEY is dead, long live LegalKEY,” says Legal RM

Opportunist vultures are circling and misinformation being posted to various platforms about how LegalKEY is now a defunct or sunset records management product, one would expect OpenText, owners of LegalKEY, to speak out to reassure clients – The silence, however, has been deafening! With LegalKEY still being the market leading records management platform in the […]

Legal Workflow: responding to client enquiries from your website

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 […]

Intelligent Office UK: the incentives administrative support staff care about

A law firm is a team. Like all teams, success depends on cooperation, communication, and commitment from everyone… Which means administrative support staff are also key to the success of a firm. (As cheesy as it is, ‘A team is only as strong as its weakest link’.) For law firms that want to maximise efficiency and […]

FileTrail: Information Governance for law firms – the growing IG problem (Part 1)

This week, we’re launching 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 isn’t […]

Converge TS: skills required to deliver a successful legal PMS implementation

You know you need to move to a modern Practice Management System (PMS). You’ve seen the opportunities of that leaving the baggage and inefficiencies of your old software behind presents, and you’re excited at the prospect of heading towards the utopia of your new PMS. Building your project team System migration projects should never be […]

How do online legal services offer your clients smart, more competitive service delivery options?

How do online legal services offer your clients smart, more competitive service delivery options? We’re seeing more and more law firms who are keen to offer their clients access to an efficient online service but are either struggling to build such a service or to connect the backend to their practice and case management systems. […]