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, […]

While law firms have been on the path towards a more digital-driven approach for several years, the arrival of the pandemic has accelerated digital transformation across the legal sector. In some markets, like the Nordics, law firms have been working with technology to transform the service delivery process and enhance collaboration with clients. In others, law firms […]

This year has definitely been a year of change, and in many respects this has highlighted gaps in business processes that previously were overlooked, forcing a review of systems and how they can be more efficient and changed for the better. For law firms, this is especially true. Whilst most firms likely have a digital […]

Advanced today announce that Schofield Sweeney have selected P4W for their practice and case management system and Tikit Connect for their CRM. The firm were wanting to move to a system which offered more options to deliver better workflow functionality to those teams which needed it, as well as offering the ability to integrate with […]

With more employees and clients than ever working remotely, all signs point to a more paperless future. But is your organisation doing everything it can to manage and protect electronic and physical records? The global pandemic has accelerated the move to more agile ways of working, including greater reliance on electronic documents. However, many organisations […]

Many firms with a 1 October 2020 renewal date were more anxious than they may have been in previous years about their ability to secure cover and to negotiate a competitive premium as they waited to see how Covid-19 would affect premiums. Now we are in the run up to April and the pandemic has […]

An international technology organisation is helping some of the world’s biggest law firms break with tradition and use technology to improve how they work. BigHand, whose clients include global firms like DLA Piper and Clyde and Co, is working with law firms to roll out tools that support remote work delegation and task management, standardise […]

Setting the scene Staying compliant with accounting regulations is an imperative of legal service providers. Yet headlines abound in trade publications of law firms failing to do so. Each headline is a stark reminder of our financial management obligations which take the form of the SRA Accounts Rules, CLC Accounts Code or Scottish Accounts Rules, […]