Craig Taylor Director of Relationship Development at LEAP comments on the Government’s plan to raise stamp duty to £500k The government’s recent announcement relating to stamp duty will provide a much needed boost to the property market and wider economy, fuelling a resurgence in activity levels and providing certainty at this crucial juncture. Speaking to […]

You likely know the pearl of wisdom that it takes three weeks to make or break a habit. That rule was set forth in a random 1970s self-help book, yet many of us accept it as canon. In reality, how many habits have you actually changed in just 21 days? The truth of human behavior is, […]

Leading East Anglia law firm, Ashtons Legal, is set to implement BigHand’s legal-specific workflow solution to support its flexible working policy and maximise its support provision for lawyers and clients. The technology-forward firm has multiple practice areas operating across its four offices with every team currently managing legal support work in different ways. Despite enforced […]

In this short, high-impact session, we’ll highlight new and meaningful capabilities within M365 for email and document management that users should be leveraging. These include improved version control and document comparison features, support for offline content access, and powerful search. Via a quick demo, we’ll show how to expose these capabilities within the familiar Outlook […]

BigHand is excited to announce its latest integrations with Linetime Liberate, Eclipse Proclaim and Tikit P4W for its financial business intelligence (BI) dashboard solution, BigHand Quantum. Steered by customers of those PMS systems, these new integrations reinforce BigHand Quantum’s position as the leading data-agnostic BI solution in the UK legal market.   BigHand Quantum translates […]

Conveyancers can start working from home again more efficiently than they did while in the office. This was one of the main lessons learned in DPS Software’s latest webinar ‘Paperless Conveyancing in Lockdown UK’. The Webinar showed how conveyancers can save time & effort by making the move to a paperless working environment and taking […]

Law firms can now collect client reviews automatically through their DPS Software Case Management System, not only on completion of the matter, but also during the matter – a first in the market. Users taking advantage of the integration can expect better reviews as using both end-of-matter review collection and pre-matter email checks has shown […]

Briefing editor-in-chief Richard Brent was joined by Gareth Ash, CIO of Hogan Lovells, for a Q&A covering the rapid response of legal business to a pandemic, the shape of things that may now emerge, and what the implications are for firms’ many strategic technology choices. In truth, there has been no playbook to follow as this situation […]

DocsCorp, a leading provider of enterprise productivity solutions, today announced it has completed acquisition agreements for Verowave Technologies, a UK provider of document production and assembly software. The verowave Platform (verodocs, verosheets, and veroslides) will be integrated into the DocsCorp document productivity suite and re-branded as veroDocs. With this acquisition, DocsCorp brings together document assembly […]

The conservative legal industry has finally understood and accepted the importance of collaboration. This has led to collaborative initiatives that encourage the exchange of ideas, experience, and technology trends to help legal firms function better. Global events such as the Legal Geek, The Global Legal Hackathon, and The World Legal Summit are some of the […]

An acceleration of the inevitable – guest blog Nigel Stott Baskerville Drummond I sit here and gaze out into my back garden through the study window, watching the bright blue-sky fade on what has been a glorious warm spring day. In my small study, I have been tapping away at my keyboard catching up on […]

Legal automation and the digitisation of legal processes are reshaping the client experience, and in turn, driving a competitive advantage for firms who keep ahead of the technology curve. Today’s clients value – and even demand – greater value and efficiency from their law firms, and they have grown to expect their firms to be […]

Responding to client requests for information can be one of the most crucial aspects of a successful client proposal process, but how do you ensure that your BD team or those creating the RFI/RFP, have the right information to hand, to enable them to provide a qualified and swift response? Often a client will expect […]