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Series note: This post continues a thought-leadership series I began last year, reflecting on what I keep hearing in conversations with leaders across UK law firms.

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How CFG Law use Katchr to streamline their case settlement process
Law firm management information is not just about finance. Hear from Richard Clark, CEO at CFG Law, about how they are using Katchr to help with compliance, ensuring case milestones are met and settlements are achieved sooner for their clients.
Access Legal: Product in focus: Web browser – based practice management software in action
During our recent Access All Areas virtual summit, we delivered a live demonstration of the new Access Legal Spitfire release. Watch the on demand session to see how the latest Practice Management Software is enabling ambitious organizations the freedom to unlock their potential.
tmgroup: 1st April stamp duty land tax changes – no laughing matter
With all the publicity around the 'stamp duty holiday' extension and the debate around whether the tapered rates will only create a new cliff edge in Autumn, it might be possible to lose sight of another significant SDLT change coming into effect, as Joanna King, Product Manager at tmgroup explains.
Three quarters of data breaches in UK legal sector caused by insiders, warns NetDocuments
UK law firms need greater protection against inside cyber threats, warns NetDocuments, the leading secure cloud-based content services platform for law firms, corporate legal teams, and compliance departments.
Payescape: Accountant payroll challenges in 2021
Processing client payroll is one of the most challenging aspects for accountancy practices. Clients need payroll services, but sometimes expect payroll to be “included” in their general accounting fees.
Access Legal webinar: Don’t be a fool this April 1st – Make sure you know the latest compliance news
Access Legal’s Regulatory Director, Brian Rogers, holds a Compliance Update Webinar taking you through all of the latest changes in the legal regulatory landscape, picking out the details that you need to know and analyzing how these changes will affect you.
Apiax: How financial institutions digitise cross-border compliance frameworks
It is difficult to overstate the impact of globalization on the financial services sector over the decades-long process of opening up national economies and markets. The breadth and depth of cross-border activities institutions are engaged in function as an enormous source of opportunity.
Sysero: Addressing legal operations challenges with automation
While priorities for legal operations have shifted over the past year, pre-pandemic challenges still remain. Today’s law firms and legal departments are still under immense pressure to operate more efficiently, contain costs and collaborate more effectively with clients.
Oosha: A web-based future – is the legal sector ready?
Web-based (or SaaS) applications are finally gaining significant traction in the legal sector. More and more firms are beginning to appreciate the flexibility it can give them, especially in a climate where remote working is becoming the norm across the industry.
LexisNexis InterAction expands partnership with Akin Gump
LexisNexis Legal & Professional, a leading provider of information and analytics, today announced Akin Gump, an AmLaw 50 firm with 20 offices around the world, has expanded its partnership with LexisNexis InterAction, a leading client relationship management (CRM) solution purpose-built for legal and professional services.
Accesspoint Technologies: Relying on luck? Take IT into your own hands
Security continues to be an area of focus for many firms, with many realizing that moving people to remote working has affected the firm’s cybersecurity risks, which you could say was inevitable. Remote working combined with a lack of monitoring across staff devices, has opened the doors to many new opportunities for cybercrime and associated attacks, including phishing attacks, identity fraud and much more.
Access Legal: Product in focus – Cloud hosting for legal firms
During our Access All Areas virtual conference, experts Chris Swailes, Louise Abbott and Julian Purser delivered a session on the growing importance of cloud hosting technology for the legal sector, how it can be implemented and how we’re already helping firms with state of the art cloud hosting solutions.
Access Legal: The Legal Landscape, now and in the future – expert legal industry panel discussion
During the recent Access All Areas virtual conference, Darren Gower (Access Legal Sales Director) was joined by a panel of industry experts to discuss the latest trends, challenges and opportunities we’re seeing in the legal sector.












