Briefing 5P is back in 2020, beginning with a series of special webcasts – and here it’s the turn of P for high-performance.

We have regularly written about, and heard from experts, on the importance of properly scoping a matter. Well scoped matters form the basis of a thorough fee structure. They also guide legal project managers in ensuring the right tasks are completed to the right standard. In short, scoping reduces uncertainty. However, it can be impossible to reduce […]

The COVID pandemic has created a state of uncertainty and upheaval across the world. It has shaken the economy and businesses to their very foundations. The legal sector is at a crossroad—a reckoning. The pandemic has laid bare historical ways of work across all that law firms do, client facing and everything that supports it. […]

Last year, in The Top Three Priorities for Your Law Firm’s Procurement Function in 2020, we recommended that law firm procurement offices prepare for a recession and promote the value of the procurement function to the organization as a whole. While we certainly did not foresee in any detail what 2020 would bring—a global pandemic, social […]

HBR Consulting’s annual Law Firm Procurement Survey is designed to equip law firm leaders with a point of reference for advancing the role of procurement and an industry baseline to benchmark against their peers. In addition, the survey provides insight into relevant trends and challenges facing the broader legal industry each year. The 2020 survey […]

A new look and an exciting range of new features are available in LEAP’s most innovative update, delivering customer-driven enhancements to our already world-class practice management platform, enabling law firms to adapt. Video length: 00:01:13

Repstor, the Microsoft 365-based information and matter management specialist preferred by professional services firms globally, has kick-started 2021 with an expanded team, reflecting the company’s confidence in another strong year ahead. Repstor, which recently made the Deloitte Top 50 Rapid Growth Tech Company list for the fourth year running, has appointed seven new consultants to […]

Leading UK and international law firm, Penningtons Manches Cooper, has optimised its matter budgeting with the help of BigHand’s legal pricing and budgeting tool, for increased commercial awareness and client transparency. The firm was an early adopter of the technology, initially looking to implement legal finance dashboards in real-time for internal reporting. As Clare Arthurs, […]

Over the past months, we’ve been hosting a number of webinars with widely respected Legal Project Management, Pricing, and C-Suite professionals. While they have shared a whole host of useful insights, one thing that has linked their advice has been the need for communication between the moving parts of a firm. For many law firms, […]

The professional reputation of any law firm plays a critical role in their continued success. A strong reputation attracts people, clients and long-term relationships. But reputations can be fragile. As Warren Buffett said: “It takes 20 years to build a reputation and 5 minutes to ruin it.” With law firms handling the most sensitive, and […]

NetDocuments, the leading secure cloud-based content services platform for law firms, corporate legal teams, and compliance departments, today announced unprecedented growth in 2020. Most notably, the company recorded 40+% year- over-year (“YoY”) growth within the medium law firm segment, including a record 4th quarter 2020 as well as 150+% spike in new corporate accounts. Overall, […]

Strategy Sphere — a podcast featuring deep-dive interviews with leaders and experts in academia, innovation, and business — launches this week. The series lets listeners tune into the real-time zeitgeist of professional services marketing, leadership, innovation, and education. The 13-episode podcast, produced by Intapp and Farone Advisors, provides deep insights for listeners interested in learning from […]

A technology project is a success only when it’s well-conceived, planned, and implemented – and when the users fully adopt the new system. Adoption only happens when communication, training, and support are equally well-conceived, planned, and implemented. And with the proliferation of applications, the complexity of business processes, and more stringent requirements around information governance, […]