Tikit, a global provider of technology solutions for the legal and professional services sectors, today announced the successful implementation and roll out of NetDocuments for the Directorate of Information Technology of Council of Europe. Due to the ongoing global situation, to assist the transition to NetDocuments, Tikit adapted their regular on-site ‘floor walking’ training programme, […]

The threat of an impending cyber-attack continues. While we don’t intend to scaremonger, it is necessary that we stress the risks that businesses are facing. Our report shows just how important it is for organisations to prioritise security – and be prepared for an attack. More businesses are beginning to recognise they are not immune […]

Advanced is the third largest provider of business software and services in the UK, and has been providing solutions across the entire legal sector for decades. We are the number one choice for Cloud legal software, and offer solicitors and barristers the opportunity to gain strategic advantage by streamlining processes and creating efficiencies. Our extensive […]

Aderant, a global industry leader in providing comprehensive business management software for law firms and other professional services organisations, is now offering Aderant Expert as a cloud service in the United Kingdom and Continental Europe. The cloud-based option of Expert – Expert Sierra –has seen significant client growth in North America over the past two […]

Actionstep, a leading cloud-based legal practice management software provider, is offering free access to its secure cloud-based legal practice management software to law firms that are struggling to enable remote working amid the current COVID-19 pandemic. The purpose of the offer is to give law firms of any size, who are not currently using a […]

Microsoft Teams is fast becoming the default collaboration environment across all sorts of organisations. More than 20 million people using it daily now, and legal professionals are no exception. Indeed, use of Teams by law firms and corporate legal departments has risen sharply, as the platform becomes a hub for project, practice area and client/matter-related […]

Repstor, the ECM software and matter management specialist, today unveiled its latest flagship European customer, Atlas, an independent tax law firm in the Netherlands, which has transformed its approach to business with Custodian for Legal. Following the formation of a strategic alliance with Tiberghien, another leading tax law firm with a strong presence in Belgium and […]

Stress seems to come with the territory of going to work and earning a living. Sometimes a little short-term stress can be a good thing because it helps people achieve a goal, meet a deadline or find the courage to try something new. But when stress becomes a regular feature of our lives and starts […]

With the beginning of the new financial year getting closer, we’ve chosen our new charity of the year for 2020-21. For the next 12 months, we’ll be actively fundraising for Action for Children. Should you not already be familiar with the charity, Action for Children helps children and young people with practical and emotional care and […]

Now in its 16th year, HBR Consulting’s Law Department Survey continues to serve as the leading source of market data on law department staffing, spending and management trends. It provides law departments with metrics to measure, manage and communicate their performance and to plan for continuous improvement. For law firms, the Survey serves as the “voice of […]

Law firm cloud adoption continues to rise, with 72% of firms reporting they expect their adoption of cloud-based solutions to increase in the coming year, according to the 2019 ILTA Technology Survey. The potential economic benefits of the cloud have always been attractive: the substitution of operating expenses for traditional capital intensity; the scalability of […]

It is no secret that law firms today face an increasingly competitive environment. Between accelerating pressure from alternative legal service providers and startup firms, new regulatory expectations with dire penalties, economic forecasts predicting rough seas ahead and clients demanding ever-greater services (at ever-lower costs) from their legal advisors, firms must find ways to eke out […]

This has been a transformative decade for the legal industry – and for HBR Consulting, as well. At the outset of the current decade, the legal industry was beginning to emerge from a recession. The decade saw a growing focus on value in legal service delivery, the rise of legal operations as a discipline, an […]