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.

The insights that we gained from The Bereavement Index highlight just how manual and laborious this industry can be. With the world becoming a more digitalised place and organisations having to adapt to remote working, it’s difficult to understand how a process surrounding something as inevitable as death is still so far behind in efficiency.

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Whilst the pandemic has been a considerable challenge for us all, both socially and professionally, the legal sector has done surprisingly well compared to other industries. In part this has been due to the sector’s ability to adapt working practices.

The adoption of Microsoft 365 tools - including collaboration apps such as Teams - has soared in recent months. For many law firms, Microsoft 365 played a vital role in supporting their remote working plans, and will likely be a critical component of many firm’s hybrid-working strategies too.

iManage, the company dedicated to Making Knowledge Work, today announced the availability of its risk management products in the iManage Cloud, beginning Q4 2021. The choice of deployment model, whether on-premise or within iManage Cloud, provides flexibility that ensures legal and professional services organisations a best-class solution for sophisticated, secure risk management.

Human Resources encompasses all aspects of the employee lifecycle including benefits, leave and absence management, and appraisals. Maintaining compliance for your organisation can often be challenging – especially with so many changes in the last year including furlough and work from home arrangements.