Humans, generally speaking, do not enjoy change. Our desire to avoid it is well documented. Most of us will walk the same route to work each day. We will order our favourite food from a takeaway restaurant, rather than try something new. We find the familiar comforting. However, most of us are also aware that […]

A survey performed by LexisNexis as recently as 2018 found that 74% of mid-sized firms in the UK do not measure the ROI for investments in technology. This is in spite of the fact that 87% believe that technology contributes to profit growth to ‘some extent’. Plainly, these two statistics are at the heart of […]

It seems that the famous Chinese curse, “may you live in interesting times”, is upon us. Uncertainty is rife. A global pandemic, and the inevitable ensuing economic downturn is making its mark on the legal world. What will it mean for law firms? And how can they weather the oncoming storm? In recent weeks, Clocktimizer […]

Welcome to the second piece in our change management blog series. Across the series we will be addressing practical steps to introduce improvements at your firm. In the coming weeks we speak to industry insiders to offer advice on successfully implementing new technology. We will also look at how to monetise change in your firm […]

Process automation is becoming more of a necessity each day as firms face the harsh reality of furloughing staff or even worse in order to survive this current climate. With less manpower, firms need to adopt new methods in order to maintain the efficient, high quality service provided to clients every day.   Innovative technology is now available that can cut out countless steps and streamline a firm’s workflow by injecting accurate […]

RELX UK Limited, trading as LexisNexis, has been appointed to a new Crown Commercial Service framework agreement effective 1st June 2020. The framework offers media monitoring and evaluation services to all UK Government and Public Sector bodies. For many years, LexisNexis has assisted public sector organisations and is delighted to be able to widen the […]

Desktop as a Service (DaaS) is by no means a new idea, with service providers as far back as 2005 attempting to deliver remote desktop experiences from data centres, but now begins a new chapter in its development and application. The idea of being able to access applications from any location and using any device […]

Accellion, Inc., provider of the industry’s first enterprise content firewall and OPSWAT, a leader in critical infrastructure protection, today announced a partnership to secure third party communications from malware and sensitive data breaches. Every day businesses contend with phishing attacks that introduce malware and zero-day exploits to corporate networks. The risk of a data breach or compliance […]

The arrival of the COVID-19 pandemic has made one thing very clear: traditional ways of working will forever be changed. As law firms across the globe partake in the world’s biggest work-from-home experiment, many are quickly realising the importance of digital transformation.  In a recent article for The Times titled Technology is the Key to Stopping […]

DLA Piper’s collaborative administrative resource model, underpinned by legal specific workflow solution, BigHand Now, has enabled the firm to move its entire staff to home-working within 36 hours, while continuing to deliver an exemplary quality of service to its clients under extreme circumstances. Norma Spearman, Chief Legal Support Officer at DLA Piper explains, “When COVID-19 […]

The Rule of Law is more than just a principle at LexisNexis. It is at the heart of everything we do. It guides the products we design, the content we write and we way we do business. Our products and services make a substantial difference to our goal of advancing the Rule of Law around […]

Boutique London practice, Allard Bailey Family Law, has chosen online Pay-As-You-Go bundling software from Zylpha. The new software frees staff from days spent preparing document bundles at photocopiers and allows them to work efficiently from home where appropriate. Based in Holborn, in the heart of London’s legal district and close to the Central Family Court, […]

The SRA expects its regulated law firms to ‘continue to meet the high standards the public expect’ and have ‘appropriate contingency plans in place for disruption’ during the coronavirus pandemic. With that in mind, it should be no surprise that as the largest combined legal cashiering and payroll bureau in the UK, we at Quill […]