From an event with David Hepburn, Global President of Actionstep, Sam Miller, UK & Ireland Partner Management at Amazon Web Services & Scott Bozinis, CEO of Infotrack - we have summarised some of the key areas where cloud-based technologies are supporting law firm growth and innovation.

While the business is under pressure to work efficiently, the legal department is no different. With long-winded legal processes slowing down the pace of business, the legal department can often be viewed as a “bottleneck” when it comes to getting things done. Legal teams even recognise this.

The pandemic has pushed the dialogue around working from home forward by about 30 years. It has raised the whole topic of how we work and where we work, so how can law firms continue to motivate, support, promote wellbeing and improve collaboration amongst their teams with working from home becoming increasingly popular?

Legal data analytics allows decision-makers to understand past and future trends within the legal industry, make smarter strategic decisions within their law firms, and improve client service delivery.

The ability to streamline anti-money-laundering (AML) and customer due diligence (CDD) management can revolutionise the way professional services firms evaluate their clients for financial, professional, and strategic risk.

InfiniGlobe develops state of the art integration connector pairing leading enterprise legal software systems, Mitratech TeamConnect and NetDocuments cloud platform, saving corporate law departments time and money.

Did you know? Poor wellbeing reaches far beyond an individual’s mental health. Where employees are struggling, businesses can also see an impact on everything from employee engagement and staff retention, through to absence levels and time to hire.

Most firm leaders already recognise that we face much greater complexity, uncertainty and difficulty transitioning out of pandemic, lockdown mode than in the sudden shift into that mode back in 2020.

Cyber Essentials Plus is a government-backed scheme that helps organisations protect themselves against common online threats. The scheme is the government’s answer to providing a safe internet space for organisations and gives companies the security they need to provide a more secure network, protecting them from 80% of the most basic cyber security breaches.

A practical guide for professional services firms looking to consolidate their content access and collaboration capabilities to support more diverse and dynamic working models.

Security continues to be an area of focus for many firms, with most realising that moving people to remote working has affected the firm’s cyber security risks, which you could say was inevitable.

In today’s new era of agile working, business resiliency has taken on greater significance for the modern law firm. During the pandemic, firms faced a very real scenario where the ability to quickly scale up a moment’s notice had meaningful advantages.

The impact of the coronavirus pandemic has both created positive and negative outcomes for the legal landscape. Those barriers have had to be overcome, but it has enabled the legal environment to transition positively to new ways of operating against a backdrop of an unpredictable economic outlook.