Portsmouth and Waterlooville based commercial and family law specialists Larcomes have become the latest law firm to invest in Liberate – Linetime’s single-system practice management solution. Following a diligent selection process and extensive consultation with existing customers, the firm have chosen Linetime’s combined accounting, CMS and CRM system to assist with operational efficiency and to […]

While law firms have largely operated in the same way for generations, changing client needs, demand for better value and the benefits of new technology such as Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the Cloud are pushing the legal sector in new directions. Here, Doug Hargrove, Managing Director, Legal at Advanced, gives his predictions for the future […]

Quill’s implemented the Living Wage for its employees and joined 4,700 leading companies as accredited Living Wage Employers. This means its entire permanent, temporary, apprenticeship and contracted staff earn not just the Minimum Wage, which is a statutory requirement, but the Living Wage, an hourly rate set independently by the Living Wage Foundation based on […]

West Yorkshire law firm Chadwick Lawrence expects its new practice and case management system to deliver “significant benefits” after signing up to SOS Connect from Solicitors Own Software. The firm, which has seven offices across the county, offers a range of legal services for both personal and business matters and is one of the few law firms in the area which has specialist […]

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 […]