The global pandemic and remote working has increased the need for law firms to standardise document creation, new industry research says. A new industry whitepaper from BigHand, featuring commentary from several law firm experts, has highlighted the need for firms to standardise document creation and assess document tools in the current climate. Published today, the […]

Legal activity has bounced back to 130% of pre-Covid levels, according to the latest update from Quilldex. Quill’s free analytics tool that tracks trends across the sector. It is the clearest sign yet of the buoyancy of the market since the UK emerged from lockdown. The all-cases index shows that new instructions dipped to around […]

By Kevin Goosman, Baskerville Drummond. Law firms rarely change their PMS, doing so on average about every 15 to 20 years, and rightly so as the cost and effort involved is substantial. Furthermore, a firm can expect such a project to distract from the day-to-day operation of the firm and there will be disruption to […]

Intellectual property, customer data, contract details, business strategies: there’s no end to the information at risk. Document security is therefore a key area for businesses to address. It’s important to appreciate how the risks occur and importantly how they can be addressed. According to Quocirca, an IT research and analysis firm, 59% percent of the businesses […]

In our most recent blog post, we addressed a few examples of knowledge gaps that can impede law firms’ ability to understand their levels of profitability. It covered a few best practices that can help your firm collect the right data and make more informed decisions about clients and matters—and do so quickly. In this post, we will dive deeper into the information your firm should be tracking in real-time to potentially avoid painful decisions […]

One of the defining aspects of the Covid-19 crisis has been the speed with which the economy moved from apparent health to seizure in many sectors, on both the supply and demand side. The actions of the UK Government supporting business and employment appears to have been met with general support, however, it would seem […]

Aderant, a global industry leader in providing comprehensive law practice management software, is pleased to announce further expansion of Aderant Expert as a cloud service to Canada. Fueled by client demand and a growing trend toward a service model of support and upgrades, Expert Sierra can now be deployed in compliance with Canadian regulations. The […]

BigHand has today announced its latest development to its financial business intelligence solution, BigHand Quantum. Quantum Self Service (QSS) is a cube-based self-serve analytics tool aimed at power users within legal finance teams.  With QSS in place, users will have access to data directly through any visualisation tool of choice (including PowerBI) to find all […]

As law firms and legal teams continue to navigate the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the issue of business continuity and agility has emerged as a key theme amongst today’s practice leaders. During the pandemic, entire organisations have rapidly transitioned to remote work, with legal teams uncovering new technologies and tools for continuing business-as-usual. However, the sudden […]

DocsCorp, a global leader in document productivity software, today announced the release of cleanDocs Enterprise, the latest addition to its breakthrough email security solution for preventing the #1 source of unintended data breaches worldwide: human error. cleanDocs is the only solution to provide both email recipient checking and metadata cleaning in a single Outlook add-in. […]

Wilson Allen, provider of software, services, and expertise that help law firms and professional services organizations enhance business performance, today announced the expansion of its leadership team with the promotions of Suki Sahansara to VP, Customer Success, Jennifer Hallett to VP, Financial Systems, and Stu Gooderham to VP, Sales.   These promotions are part of a […]

Reflecting the recent moves by many courts to accept electronic document bundles during the pandemic, Zylpha has launched ‘The Complete Guide to eBundling”. The free, easy-to-use guide is aimed at helping law firms follow best practice and therein remain compliant. As leaders in the ebundling field, Zylpha has collated all the information to produce the […]

Chapman kicks off with a lay of the cybersecurity land. He says we’re entering a third generation of working habits. From a movement where people rose with the sun and the livestock to start a busy day of work on the farm, through an industrial revolution of innovation and social change – how will people […]