Adopting and implementing effective compliance policies are an essential part of any law firm’s risk management. Yet, many firms continue to struggle with the challenge of delivering efficient client onboarding, whilst ensuring compliance with various KYC, AML and UK GDPR rules.

We have spoken at length about the importance of data governance, technology and process in your journey towards legal project management at scale.

Following on from last month’s Legal Workflow Management Report, today, BigHand have released a follow-up report. The latest report from BigHand focuses on Legal Resource Management Report reveals the latest trends in lawyer-to-lawyer work allocation and matter staffing from over 900 respondents globally.

Exizent are looking for professionals working in wills, planning and estate administration across the UK to get involved and become a Contributor to their Research Community.

Protecting against fraud and ensuring your clients are who they say they are can be challenging. But with all solicitors required to carry out proper identity checks, and the Safe Harbour Standard for conveyancers setting a new benchmark for the profession, failing to verify isn’t an option.

In this short webinar, you'll learn how process automation can simplify your retention and compliance strategies and reduce storage. We will demonstrate how the new Echo Content Synchronization add-on, Echo Automate, works behind the scenes to seamlessly archive closed matters and other HighQ sites back to the corresponding DMS site with no user interaction needed.

For some firms, equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) has taken a back seat as a consequence of the Covid-19 lockdowns, but now that things are getting back to some semblance of normality it is important that all firms ensure their EDI policies and procedures are fit for purpose and operate effectively on a day-to-day basis, especially in relation to sexual harassment.

Join Exizent for their latest on-demand webinar on Wednesday 25th August focusing on an introduction to The Cloud – back to basics.

Leading software provider Osprey Approach is delighted to announce that Dan Salmons, CEO of Coadjute, is the latest guest speaker to appear as part of its Osprey Integrations Webinar Series.

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.