On 1st January 2021, the Brexit transition period ended. For UK-registered businesses and law firms, this means that they are no longer bound to EU laws - including the EU GDPR.

Innovative law firm, Larkin Hoffman, has chosen to convert to BigHand’s full legal workflow management solution to support its commitment to delivering first-class client service.

Communication and collaboration tools have been critical to keeping law firms’ people working productively in lockdowns, and the solutions are now evolving further in anticipation of the need to manage processes and teams remotely on a longer-term basis.

From training and development to investment in technology, how are leading law firms making the best use of their historic data to improve the future pricing of work internally and communicate outcomes and challenges with clients more effectively?

It has been a challenging year of change that may have seen many consider what they most value in both business and life more broadly.

The theme for the next in our webcast series for Briefing 5P – in the run up to our main virtual event on 9 and 10 November 2020 – is profitability. We explored Beyond the hype: Determining the right tech platform to drive law firm profitability. Stephen James, group CEO and founder at our partner and sponsor for the event sa.global, joined Briefing’s deputy editor Kayli Olson to break down the intersection of tech and profitability.

Briefing 5P is back in 2020, beginning with a series of special webcasts – and here it’s the turn of P for high-performance. That means managing the workloads and motivation of individuals and teams in exceptionally challenging times, the extra boost that can be offered by enabling and incentivising collaboration across different business areas, and particularly optimising firms’ performance at finding the right solutions to changing client needs.

Paul Saunders, Managing Director of risk and compliance business Legal Eye, chats to Ben Furlong from Estate Search about the upcoming changes to the Probate Practitioners Handbook.

Law firms run on communication. Contracts and all other types of legal documents are built using carefully chosen and properly ordered words.

More informed and price sensitive than ever before, clients want faster, more responsive, more transparent, and more personalized ‘human’ interactions and experiences with their law firm.

Repstor, the Microsoft 365-based information and matter management specialist preferred by professional services firms globally, has announced that Coca-Cola European Partners has selected Repstor for Legal to help transform the way its in-house legal team accepts, manages and reports on corporate matters.

Many a law firm has turned to Microsoft Teams as the tool to help support its people to collaborate more efficiently while working from home during the pandemic – but it’s clear it could be used for quite a lot more than a great many video meetings and useful project-progressing chat.

2020 certainly did not pan out as anyone would have predicted.  As lockdown became imminent there was a fast realization that business would not be running normally.