For law firms and legal providers, achieving the right balance of efficiency and quality is crucial to business success. Faced with intense competition, increasing price pressures and the ongoing commoditisation of legal work, today’s legal service providers must find ways to improve practice efficiencies and drive more profitable, scalable work – without sacrificing quality.  Fortunately, […]

A law firm isn’t necessarily the type of organisation you would expect needs to focus so much on data and analytics. They take on cases for individuals and businesses, try to reach the best conclusion possible for their clients, and then move on to the next case. But the underlying statistics create a clear picture […]

Relying on busy professionals to manually enter ongoing client interactions, communication and meeting information, has traditionally meant that client care initiatives have simply not had the data or visibility required to support them. Yet, it’s this visibility of communication that can help professional services firms not only maintain revenue but increase it. Here, we look […]

There can be many activities a marketing or business development team will be responsible for when trying to expand their digital footprint and attract more qualifies clients, including blogging, social media, website management and digital marketing. More than likely, the marketing team will draw on many of the digital marketing automation tools available to improve the […]

“Is there a way to create a reusable data repository for my most frequently litigated custodians and their privileged data?” “What kind of sensitive data is there on my endpoints?” “Can I combine multiple data types together using a single view?” “How can I quickly respond to litigation, investigations, or governance, risk, and compliance requests?” […]

When investing in a technology, it is imperative that the software is adaptable and responds quickly to change, whether these are legislative reforms such as the employment law (minimum wages and pay gap reporting), or environmental law amendments. The focus must be on how quickly the systems can pivot and respond to these changes to remain […]

Nikec are pleased to announce the recent partnership with iTrain Legal and inclusion of iTrain Ali, the next generation AI chatbot for Legal, into our product portfolio. The intuitive chat bot has been built to work alongside legal teams to relieve frustrations around support queries saving time and increasing productivity. Dorigen Sykes, Managing Director at […]

DocsCorp – a leading provider of document productivity solutions – today announced its PDF editing and bundling application, pdfDocs, now integrates with DocuSign, which offers the world’s #1 eSignature solution as part of the DocuSign Agreement Cloud. This is pdfDocs’ first integration with a third-party electronic signature provider – a decision based on DocuSign’s industry-leading […]

Since working remotely during the lockdown, our people are using Teams more ambitiously by the day, but from an information governance perspective we’re becoming concerned about what happens to all the content that’s being stored in the Files area. How can we make sure this doesn’t conflict with or supersede the documents and information held […]

It’s no secret your firm’s greatest asset is its lawyers. Their specialised expertise in various practice areas is how firms produce their product, which is why firms rely and encourage lawyers to develop deep subjectmatter expertise in their chosen practice area. However, in an increasingly fast-paced and complex world, deep expertise is not enough to ensure […]

It is clear to see that as firms trust in new legal IT to bridge the gap between home working and connecting with clients, a new set of risks have emerged with the wave of opportunities brought by cloud and mobile computing. In a legal environment where confidential documents are handled daily, firms must ensure […]

LexisNexis Legal & Professional, a leading global provider of information and analytics have released, in partnership with international law firm Bird & Bird and ARPAS, a dedicated services agreement precedent for the drone operator market. The drone industry is enormous with Business Insider predicting that the drone services market will to grow from $4.4 billion […]

If you attended the Katchr Connect 2020 (virtual) User Conference this year, you will have taken part in our various polls, run throughout the day. You can see the results of each of these throughout this article. Designed to explore the overall consensus shared amongst legal professionals during the COVID pandemic, we recently ran several […]