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Thomson Reuters, a global content and technology company, issued a new report today that highlighted a significant rate growth employed by law firms while demand was up only 0.5% and productivity slipped 2.4%.

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iManage Delivers AI and Knowledge Management to all document management users
iManage, the company dedicated to transforming how professionals work, today announced the availability of iManage RAVN Knowledge Unlocked. With Knowledge Unlocked, iManage has productised Knowledge Management and RAVN AI, making them accessible to a broader market through packaged solutions that are easy to deploy and use, cost-effective, and tightly integrated with the industry’s leading document […]
Access to acquire Eclipse Legal Systems to expand its Legal solutions suite
The Access Group, today announced the agreement to acquire Eclipse Legal Systems. The acquisition will enhance Access’s existing presence in the legal sector, which currently extends beyond 2,500 organisations with the vast majority in legal practice and the remaining customers being internal legal departments, across multiple verticals. The addition of Eclipse Legal Systems extends the […]
HBR Consulting: Are you seeking to optimise your firms preferred outside counsel program?
This is the second post of a three-part series focused on preferred outside counsel program processes. Companies that have already gone through the law firm rationalization process and have created preferred outside counsel programs can help ensure the long-term success of those programs by adding rigor and structure to the program. The information below highlights […]
Quiss Technology: Remote desktops aren’t the future for law firms – they are the now
The demand to allow people to work remotely happened quickly and for many law firms the quickest solution was the best solution. With a growing realisation the future involves a lot more remote working and with time to think, is a Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) the answer? Security is the number one priority for law […]
Thirsk Winton switches to iManage Cloud to enhance governance and security
iManage, the company dedicated to transforming how professionals work, today announced that Thirsk Winton LLP – a modern, innovative North-East London law firm offering a range of commercial and private client services – is continuing to build off its successful move to iManage Cloud by rolling out iManage Security Policy Manager and iManage Threat Manager for enhanced […]
Sysero: Five ways to prepare for the remote law firm
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to an unprecedented transformation in the modern law firm, where conducting business and working from home has quickly become the new “normal” for millions of lawyers and staff across the world. While the move to remote working happened swiftly, it’s unlikely that law firms will return to traditional ways of […]
DPS Software: Conveyancing hit hardest by Covid-19
Common sense might tell you that being in the middle of a pandemic, being restricted to your own home and most businesses being closed would result in a big drop in levels of business for the legal industry. After all, as of 21st May 2020, 16% of the courts and tribunals in England and Wales […]
NetDocuments: From perk to profit
The days of grinding out 80-hour weeks in the office on top of a long daily commute are over. Whether it’s flexible hours, flexible location, work-from-home or going “part time,” law firms are changing their ways and opening the door to new policies that benefit both employees and the bottom line. With the right strategy, […]
NetDocuments: The definitive guide to document management
Whether you’re a lawyer or IT professional in a law firm, you have a natural understanding of the threats that surround you. Threats of competition, mistakes in compliance, potential human error and the overall stressful nature of maintaining a successful practice and delivering exceptional value to your clients. Perhaps the biggest threat law firms face […]
NetDocuments: Have you moved from on-prem to the Cloud yet?
As a law firm, the last thing you want is to be in the headlines about a data breach. While your ITteam may have standard security measures in place, a private cloud provider ensures you have asecure environment to store your most sensitive data. We conduct interviews with each client that implements NetDocuments. The trends […]
Advanced Legal: When business is disrupted, digital tech moves to the top of the agenda
As this is published, legal firms throughout the UK are facing the huge operational challenges brought about by Coronavirus and the subsequent requirement for social isolation. The Law Society is continually monitoring the situation and providing regular updates to provide information and guidance. Many of the responses posted by the Law Society point to very real concerns about job […]
Morrish Solicitors commits to Advanced for digital-first practice and case management
Advanced has signed a new deal with Morrish Solicitors LLP which will see the Yorkshire-based law firm implement Tikit Partner for Windows (P4W) to handle its practice and case management as well as Tikit Connect for its Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and marketing activities. P4W, already used by over 600 legal firms across the UK, […]
Briefing Tiger Team: What is it?
The Tiger Team is a problem-solving approach used by NASA to investigate, and hopefully solve, highly critical and complex issues. Most famously, it was adopted to bring the astronauts safely back to Earth when a module malfunctioned during the Apollo 13 mission. Experts in a range of areas, such as engineers and scientists, are brought […]