Forecast: Law firms will be cloud ready by 2021

  Law firms have long talked about the attractiveness of migrating their IT infrastructure to the cloud, but they have not made appreciable steps to date. This is due in large part to an understandable fear of negative client reaction, especially in regulated markets such as finance. In truth, restrictive outside counsel guidelines of even […]

DocsCorp publishes its 2019 Report on PDF Editing Workflows for Portable Devices

  Nearly 300 people were surveyed on how they digitally edit, review, and approve documents on different devices. DocsCorp, a leading provider of enterprise productivity solutions, today published a new report into PDF editing workflows for portable devices. Nearly 300 people were surveyed about how they digitally edit and review documents on different devices to […]

Winning the battle of effective time recording

You can see the fee earners in the office, diligently working on cases but when you review the time recording the numbers do not add up! Knowing how important time recording is, law firm managers need a solution that is quick, effective and simple. RevenueManager, by Enable, is the legal software solution that law firms have been […]

Outsourcing technology considerations for law firms

In February, The Law Society published its Lawtech Adoption Research report, which showed a rise in the number of lawtech firms supporting the work of law firms in the UK. There appears little doubt there is growing acceptance of how lawtech, like automation and AI, can help lawyers access, interrogate, understand and use large amounts […]

Make the switch to a client portal

Email is Unsecure You’re probably already aware of the dangers associated with email, but we bet you’re still continuing to use it, despite the risks. In the current climate, it’s almost impossible to completely avoid using email as part of your daily communication, however, you should be making an effort to minimise your email usage […]

The PDF Binder application that helps users create court bundles 75% faster

Combining PDFs into a document bundle to be distributed to a client or filed with the Court can eat up hours of billable time. But it doesn’t have to. Automating the small but important tasks like generating a Table of Contents, applying security settings, and finding sensitive information that needs redaction can make the bundling […]

The client quid pro quo

Do your clients believe your firm’s services are good value given the cost? If you don’t know the answer to that question, how can you be sure your clients will call on you the next time they have a need? I would argue that the next imperative facing business developers is how to connect the […]

Accelerating your law firm’s response to cyber threats

“We’ve never been hit by a cyber attack, why do we need additional security measures?” It’s tempting to think that because your law firm hasn’t felt the full impact of a cyber attack, you’re not at risk, especially if you’ve already invested in security. But the threat landscape is changing, and there are many reasons […]

GDPR: Are the fines real?

  Under the General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR), organisations may be fined up to €20 million, or 4% of the total worldwide annual turnover of the preceding financial year, whichever is higher. In January 2019, the French Data Protection Authority fined Google €50 million for GDPR violations. When the European Union’s GDPR went into effect in […]

Law department analytics survey reports

The rise of data analytics has in the past decade substantially impacted how businesses operate and provide services. The legal industry, on the other hand, has been much slower to adopt analytics than other verticals. That is beginning to change, as interest and investment grows in legal organizations. Corporate law departments are increasingly embracing data […]