What would happen if everyone in your law firm – administrators, partners, and each and every timekeeper – felt personally responsible for increasing your law firm’s profitability?

If I were to ask you what your highest value business asset is, other than your staff and colleagues, what would you say? Your offices? Your library? Your computers and furniture?  While those may be important and expensive assets, there is one that is far more vital: your data.

Litera, a global leader in legal technology solutions with more than 15,000 customers, announced that it has agreed to acquire Kira Systems (“Kira”), the industry leader in machine learning contract review and analysis software.

Can you ever return to feeling as if you’re safely making the most effective decisions possible about your firm’s future? We all know there are no guarantees. But we do tend to operate on what feels like generally safe assumptions, such as the belief that the entire world cannot shut down all at once.

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As specialists in HR and payroll system implementation, there aren't many scenarios we haven't come across. In this ebook, we share some of the most common pitfalls and considerations to be made during each stage of an HRIS or payroll system implementation.

It’s fair to say that many companies do not always see automation as a ‘go-to’ when investing in tech. The need for automation is likely to be highlighted by the legal team first, to address specific challenges they face. The wider business may support this, based on a motivation to get better legal engagement and support.

According to two thirds of legal professionals, at least 25% of probate cases are delayed, and the main cause is financial institutions. Most firms have to wait at least four weeks to get the information they need from asset and liability providers.

iManage, the company dedicated to Making Knowledge Work, today announced that leading global law firm, Linklaters, has selected iManage Work 10 for comprehensive, secure document and email management and collaboration.

The annual partner performance review and compensation process is very manual – requiring you to generate and break apart reports, establish workbooks, and much more.

Having selected their preferred vendor, a UK law firm approached Silver Cloud HR to deliver the implementation of Sage People.

Keywords are an essential part of Search Engine Optimisation (SEO). If someone uses Google to search for ‘divorce solicitors in Bristol’ and your website has a page with that exact phrase on it, Google is much more likely to show the searcher a link to your page than it will be if your page doesn’t have that phrase on it.

Another five firms have been fined for AML breaches, which follows on the heels of six that were recently fined £800 each with £600 costs; it is of note that two of these firms held the CQS accreditation and another two held the Lexcel accreditation; I hope they notified the Law Society in line with the Scheme Rules.