In the legal sector, 2018 saw artificial intelligence (AI) climb to the top of many law firms’ agenda, driven by the lure of the business benefits this new technology potentially offers alongside organisations’ perceived need to ‘innovate’. In 2019, the following trends will shape the adoption of this technology: Sharp contraction in point solution buying […]

New Year’s resolutions are notoriously hard to keep, with the majority of people failing to stick to them for longer than a few weeks. That’s because they’re often too vague or too monumental. While resolutions tend to centre on your personal goals, usually involving losing weight, exercising and saving more, they’re important from a business […]

AI Needs Training Encouraged by media portrayals of AI, a widespread myth is that AI simply learns by itself. For example, a common misconception represents AI as a digital brain that can be plugged and played into a given scenario, learning to solve X, Y, Z challenges on its own. Such representations are based on […]

DocsCorp, a leading provider of enterprise productivity solutions, today announced that its desktop productivity suite is compatible with Office 2019. For customers using the cloud, DocsCorp solutions are also Office 365 compatible. The DocsCorp suite of productivity tools include compareDocs for document comparison, cleanDocs for data breach prevention and metadata cleaning, and pdfDocs for PDF […]

Quill’s hosted a ‘deck your desks’ Christmas decorating contest for the second year running to bring some festive cheer to its offices and encourage healthy competition between its teams to win the coveted ‘best dressed desks’ award. With no limit on what they could do and a £30 budget to go shopping, each team chose […]

Back in the day, law firms and clients usually set forth the terms governing their relationships in standard engagement letters. But more recently, as bargaining power has shifted away from law firms and toward clients, organizations have begun to document their expectations for outside counsel in increasingly long and detailed guidelines. While these expanded guidelines […]

Senior IT executives carry the burden of making the final decisions on hardware and technology support options needed to run the applications that drive their corporate or law firm business functions. These are always high-stakes decisions because they carry significant financial and operational implications for the organization. A growing body of knowledge is illustrating the […]

 LegalRM Limited, experts in records management and information governance solutions to law firms are delighted to announce the expansion of their team, with the recruitment of Agnes Wills and Georgina Jacobs, to complement the existing team. “Both Agnes and Georgina have been bought on board to fill two new roles within our growing organisation”, commented […]

HBR recently held its annual Procurement Roundtable, an invitation-only gathering of 25+ law firm procurement leaders. In connection with the Roundtable, HBR surveyed the participants on a variety of procurement-related topics ranging from organizational information for benchmarking through current front-of-mind topics / priorities, including investment in procurement technology solutions. These technology solutions are a key […]

Move to iManage Cloud provides a future-proofed platform for document and email management iManage, the company dedicated to transforming how professionals work, today announced that Stronachs LLP – one of Scotland’s leading independent law firms – has selected iManage Work for its document and email management, all in the iManage Cloud. “The goal was to move […]

Scott Brown, digital services manager at Accesspoint, answers questions about making your website more visible to clients. Q) How does Google work exactly? A) The web is continually evolving, with new content added daily. Every single second of the day, Google is crawling the web to organise all of this information to form and display its […]

We react to the reports that the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) have put their reforms for the professional indemnity (PI) insurance market on the back-burner. In March 2018, the SRA published a consultation “Protecting the users of legal services: balancing cost and access to legal services”, which outlines proposals for the Solicitors’ Compensation Fund and […]

Scheme helps law firms mitigate risk, increase compliance and reduce professional indemnity insurance premiums. LEAP, the world’s leading legal software provider for small to mid-sized law firms, is celebrating the success of its Best Practice Standard (BPS) conveyancing accreditation scheme as it reaches its one-year milestone. The Best Practice Standard was set up to help […]