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In LPM LITL 2020 report, when asked ‘what percentage of people in your firm regularly work from home’, the average response was only 16% – what a difference a year makes! We’ve all been proved wrong.

This year’s survey shows a definite trend that puts automation, managed services, cloud and process optimisation at the forefront of priorities.

Like all businesses in the UK, we’ve seen the pandemic have a lasting impact on the way teams work, and this year’s Legal IT landscapes report shows people want to work from home more regularly: 32%, in fact – double what it was last year. And, with the explosion of Zoom and MS Teams to support client, prospect and referrer conversations, firms have received a lesson in how easy it is to communicate and collaborate digitally.

Automation, streamlining, workflow enhancements – these were some of the repeat priorities for IT and business process improvements coming out of the LPM LITL report this year. This was reflected again in project priorities if a magic wand could be waved or an extra £100K injected.

Read between the lines and cybersecurity is, in fact, a critical theme connecting most responses documented in this report. There’s a clear disconnect between the perception of cyber risk, the desire to adopt technology in an industry traditionally reluctant to embrace digitisation, and curious reports that the number of data leaks remains the same since before the Covid-19 pandemic – despite more dispersed working practices.

Whilst quite naturally the focus of the pandemic’s impact centered on the loss of life, a less obvious consequence was the opportunity it afforded criminals, who were quick to exploit weaknesses in hurriedly implemented work-from-home polices.

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The rapid pace of digitalization means law firms are having to rethink their business processes and technology infrastructures to cope with new ways of working.

At the end of last year, we held a webinar about Recovering from Disasters in Legal. We were very lucky to have Tom Booton, Head of Corporate Real Estate at The Law Society talk about the fire at their offices in early 2020.

The British government announced an extension to the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme to help ease the burden on businesses over the next several months.

SeeUnity has announced the release of an Echo Automate product enhancement designed to automatically create workspaces using iManage’s Workspace templates when Microsoft Teams sites are created or flagged to be synchronized with the DMS.