We spoke to industry experts – including Rob Hailstone (Bold Legal Group), Alan Milstein (Residential Property Surveyors Association) and Eduardo Reyes (The Law Society Gazette) – for their views on what needs to change to get Britain building, speeding up New Build transactions, and meeting the demand for more housing.  Here’s what they said… Eduardo […]

Microsoft in legal: Providing a platform which integrates with the tools you know and empowers business intelligence across your firm. Presented by: Craig Bird, Solution Specialist at MicrosoftDuration: 20 Minutes This webinar is part one of: Introducing legal360: The first end-to-end practice management solution built on Microsoft Dynamics 365. The legal industry has unique requirements […]

NetDocuments, the leading secure cloud-based content services platform for law firms, corporate legal teams and compliance departments, announced that Deutsche Bank, Germany’s leading bank with strong European roots and a significant presence globally, especially in the Americas and Asia Pacific, has chosen NetDocuments as its new global Document Management System (DMS). The NetDocuments true native […]

Katchr, the UK’s law firm BI specialists, is pleased to announce that the business is now certified to ISO 27001 for Information Security Management. This certification is a demonstration of Katchr’s commitment to data protection for all of it’s law firm customers.  Awarded to firms whose business processes conform to strict international standards, the ISO 27001 accreditation is the only auditable international benchmark for information security management.  Graham Moore, […]

Accellion, Inc., provider of the enterprise content firewall that prevents data breaches and compliance violations from sensitive third party communications, today announced an integration for Splunk Enterprise Security, a market leading security incident and event management (SIEM) solution. Thousands of organizations rely on Splunk to modernize their IT security solutions and strengthen their cyber defenses. […]

Welcome to the third instalment in our blog series on firmwide analytics. Ask anyone who has attended a legal conference recently, and they will tell you that data is everything. From AI applications to machine learning, it all hinges on information. However, there seems to be less certainty about exactly which data everyone should be […]

Welcome to the second installment in our blog series on firmwide analytics. Ask anyone who has attended a legal conference recently, and they will tell you that data is everything. From AI applications to machine learning, it all hinges on information. However, there seems to be less certainty about exactly which data everyone should be […]

As we outlined last week, we are starting a new blog series covering firmwide analytics. Having already looked at what a data governance policy actually is, we will be diving further into the topic’s practicalities. Namely, we will be looking at the sort of data your firm should be collecting, which areas it should be collecting them in, […]

“Time and money are your scarcest resources. You want to make sure you’re allocating them in highest-impact areas” – Matt Trifiro At Clocktimizer, we’re in the business of data. We believe that the right data, and the right analysis of that data, can guide firms towards making better decisions. However, data collection and analysis is no […]

As we have noted in recent blogs, data collection and analysis is essential to the long term success of your business. Whether it be profitability analysis or looking for ways to improve processes, data guides the process. However, data analysis is not something to jump into blindly. While working on drawing meaningful conclusions from your data, […]

For the past few blogs, we have been highlighting the importance of data in law firms. Not only how it is collected and stored, but why. We have shown the importance of evaluating the quality and accuracy of your sources. We have also looked at how good data can keep budgets on track in a huge variety […]

For the last few blogs, we’ve been discussing the importance of data management. A good data governance policy not only identifies how to collect and store data, but why. Data governance is becoming increasingly important, particularly as the legal profession is becoming increasingly data-driven. Clients are demanding transparency and an end to billing by the […]

Last week’s blog, on the importance of Data Governance, looked at how and why law firms use data. We stressed how essential it is to have a Data Governance plan, not only for safeguarding the data you collect, but also to use it to improve the business of law. For many law firms, this will entail […]