More law firms are set to consolidate remote and flexible working practices after a leading acquirer unveiled plans for a new digital workplace to support its existing and future acquisitions.

To set the scene, rewind to 2011. Big upfront capital expenditure upon installation, costly perpetual licences thereafter, bulky on-premise servers, time-intensive face-to-face training sessions and widespread cloud reluctance were the norm.

The pandemic has triggered a collaborative learning boom in the professions, with law firms looking to future-proof their organisations by embracing strategies designed to drive differentiation and deliver high performance.

The COVID-19 pandemic led many firms to abandon the idea of returning to business as usual and reassess many traditional risk management practices.

Thriving in today’s legal landscape requires legal providers to think strategically and digitally. The pandemic has unsurfaced many of the shortcomings of more traditional ways of doing business and has pushed legal professionals to embrace new and evolving technologies.

Clients don’t want to call you they just feel they have to. A process that seems simple to you is often complex to them.

Wilson Allen CEO Bruce Wilson says the brand change from Proforma Tracker to Billstream reflects an accelerated development path for the software, already proven at more than 40 large law firms in the US, Canada and UK.

iManage, the company dedicated to Making Knowledge Work, today announced that Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner (BCLP) – a fully integrated global law firm with over 1,400 lawyers in 31 offices across North America, Europe, the Middle East and Asia – is expanding its use of the iManage platform with iManage Knowledge Unlocked providing its professionals with quick and easy access to a highly valuable, curated database of knowledge assets.

This ebook explores how law firms struggle to make time entry accurate, contemporaneous, and compliant with client billing terms or outside counsel guidelines (OCGs).

At the start of last year, I was a solicitor working in construction and engineering law, a job I had been doing for nearly seven years.

The growing number of frauds, tax evasion, investment scams, and money laundering cases across the country has once again turned the spotlight on the importance of complying with anti-money laundering (AML) policies.

Operational inefficiency is costing law firms. Manual processes create pains for firms–and for potential clients–which open the firm up to a loss in efficiency, a potential loss of business, and exposure to risk.

The Law Society today announces that it has appointed Quill as one of its trusted practice management software providers and outsourced legal cashiering suppliers - making Quill the first-ever legal cashiering supplier recommended by the Law Society.