As many of us may know drafting a will is not always a straight-forward process, if it is not properly executed for whatever reason, it can cause future problems for the client and can lead to more time, planning and resources being used to complete it to a high standard. It is important to provide […]

Briefing 5P is back in 2020, beginning with a series of special webcasts – and here it’s the turn of P for high-performance. That means managing the workloads and motivation of individuals and teams in exceptionally challenging times, the extra boost that can be offered by enabling and incentivising collaboration across different business areas, and particularly […]

North-east-based Alexander Legal Services is implementing the Proclaim Compact+ solution from Eclipse Legal Systems, a Law Society partner. Founded in 2017, Alexander Legal Services is a firm that provides Will writing and estate planning services to clients throughout the north-east of England – offering professional services from a qualified legal expert at affordable fixed prices. […]

1. Transparency across your firm improves client engagement and retention Business development and ongoing client engagement for improved client retention is key for a business growth strategy. However, as many more people work remotely, understanding who is talking to whom and when is vital for business development success. With real-time communication information and 360-degree relationship […]

Town Legal LLP, a leading boutique planning law firm based in London, has chosen BigHand’s document template solution, BigHand Outline, to standardise and streamline its legal document creation. Gavin Curtis, IT Manager at Town Legal explains, “As a fast-growing firm we needed a way to optimise our branding and standardise our document production. Previously, the […]

SeeUnity, the leading provider of API-based content integration and migration solutions for onpremise and cloud-based Enterprise Content Management applications, is pleased to announce today the release of Echo Automate, an Echo Content Synchronization product enhancement designed to automate the time-consuming process of creating, maintaining, and executing large volumes of meta-rules, including synchronization rules, between systems. […]

In a business, as in life, risk is a constant – but the balance of it changes, and rarely as dramatically as in the past year. Our latest Briefing Tiger Team are challenged to explain how the operation of law firm risk management itself has had to change through crisis, as well as the actions on specific […]

tmgroup, the leading provider of property searches and data, has today announced its new partnership with Thirdfort to offer conveyancers the latest in risk mitigation technology. Onboarding clients is one of the biggest risks for conveyancers, requiring a lengthy, time-consuming process to perform necessary due diligence – and even then risking something “falling through the […]

Repstor, the Microsoft 365-based matter management specialist, has seen demand for its Custodian for Legal™ matter lifecycle management and interest in its new Repstor for Teams™ solutions soar in the wake of the global lockdown, as more legal teams seek more intuitive and mainstream ways to collaborate on their caseloads across distance. Repstor’s clients around […]

We all know how powerful PitchPerfect in Word is but now we have made it so that it is more powerful in PowerPoint too. Having the ability to generate powerful proposals is a vital part of an effective pitch process and there can be many challenges a firm faces when trying to combine all the […]

Top 100 UK law firm, Ward Hadaway, has chosen BigHand’s template management solution, BigHand Outline, to standardise document templates and streamline document creation in the firm. Jonathan Smith, Director of IT at Ward Hadaway explains, “After a thorough review of the market, we knew BigHand Outline was the solution for us, after we saw just […]

In a very short time, the Coronavirus (COVID-19) health crisis has drastically altered the way businesses and firms operate. With social distancing measures in place, the days of in-person interaction and face-to-face collaboration are over, and communication has become almost completely digitised – having a substantial effect on clients’ daily experiences. The shift to remote […]

In a digital world, law firms’ technology strategies are key to both profitability and differentiation. Indeed, as Mark A. Cohen, Distinguished Fellow at Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law, recently wrote: “Law has become a three-legged stool supported by legal, business, and technological expertise. Practice expertise was long the dominant element in the legal mosaic. Now, […]