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.

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’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.

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.

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. 

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 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.

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. 

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.

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.

Law firms are facing a number of challenges arising out of the Covid-19 pandemic, including their ability to attract new clients and deal effectively with existing clients who are not 100% happy with the service they have received, for example, delays in obtaining searches in property transactions.

This is the finale of our three webinars exploring document automation. In Episode 1 - Back to Basics we explored what is document automation, what can it do, and what should firms consider.

Current statistics show 78% of law firms currently store client data in the cloud; another 8% have plans to do so in the near future. Where does your law firm fall? Are you working in the cloud?