These days, using the internet or a smartphone app to book a taxi, check-in for a flight or manage your personal finances has become second nature to most of us and handling legal transactions digitally should be no different. In fact, the emergence of eSignatures is making this an ever-growing reality. In an increasingly competitive […]

Dorset-based Frettens Solicitors, who specialise in corporate & commercial, commercial property, employment, and dispute resolution, as well as private client work, have selected Hubshare from Nikec Solutions, as their client portal and document collaboration platform. Jane Newman, IT Manager at Frettens, commented “At Frettens we pride ourselves on understanding our clients’ needs and offering the […]

On Thursday 7th February DPS Software attended the Annual LPM South Conference at The Royal Society in London. The event is specifically designed for Legal Practice Managers of SME firms in the UK, a market which matches DPS perfectly. The conference included numerous interesting keynote speeches such as “What technologies are changing the shape of […]

Digitisation is the process of moving from “paper” to ”data”. Businesses of all types, law firms included, are embarking upon projects to introduce electronic working and achieve their paperless office goals for a whole multitude of reasons. The primary vehicle for doing so is document management software (DMS). Take our Interactive Documents as an example of […]

The Council of Europe, Europe’s leading human rights organisation, has partnered with Tikit, a global provider of technology solutions to legal and professional services firms and governmental organisations, to select NetDocuments as its cloud-based document management platform (DMS). The contract is the result of a year-long competitive process that looked at several suppliers of document […]

Independent software company, Insight Legal Software has today announced it has been formally recognised by HMRC’s list of VAT compatible software products, ahead of the upcoming Making Tax Digital (MTD) regulation coming into effect on 1st April 2019. MTD is part of the government’s initiative to make it easier for businesses and sole operators to ensure they get their […]

Following a record quarter at the end of last year, and its growth in general in 2018 where 19 clients signed up to their secure file sharing and collaboration platform, Hubshare signs up Birkett Long as their first new collaboration of 2019. Essex based law firm, Birkett Long, has selected Hubshare, from Nikec Solutions as its […]

Converge TS, the cloud provider to the legal sector has been selected by Wilkinson Woodward to provide a fully-managed private infrastructure solution in preparation for the firm’s transition to a new Practice Management Software. The aim is to provide a more resilient and efficient IT environment in order to enhance productivity. Wilkinson Woodward has been […]

The way law firms operate has changed substantially over the past decade. The sector has become more competitive, clients even more discerning, and the use of technology is slowly transforming many aspects of legal service delivery, and in some cases automating work that was previously the vanguard of fee earners themselves! Support structures have changed […]

  Procurement plays an essential role in law firms’ ability to reduce and contain costs, manage risks and improve the level of supplier service delivery. Reflecting procurement’s rising value, a majority of law firms (67 percent) have established a procurement function, according to a Procurement Leader survey conducted in connection with HBR Consulting’s 2018 Law […]

https://vimeo.com/310088790 Ronald Fletcher Baker is a multi-discipline law firm in the city of London, the West-End and Manchester and international. Over the last few years they have enjoyed a period of expansion increasing the head count by approximately 50%. The use of technology and the flexible and collaborative working it allows is one of the factors […]

In ecology, the term “edge effect” refers to the boundary of two or more habitats. At the edge of two intersecting habitats scientists find greater diversity of life, including unique species that are specially adapted to the conditions of the zone where the two habitats come together. Today’s corporate law departments and law firms are […]

Nearly everyone who keeps up to date with technological developments has heard of the term ‘machine learning’. It’s a nice buzzword that is being used more and more in recent years. But what does machine learning actually entail? What is the technology that lies behind it? To coincide with the launch of Clocktimizer’s machine learning engine, […]