TOP STORY
In an era where law firms are rapidly embracing digital transformation, sa.global reaffirms its position at the forefront of innovation with the introduction of billing collaboration. This AI-driven solution, embedded within the evergreen and empower platform, automates the review of Letters of Engagement (LOE) and Outside Counsel Guidelines (OCG), ensuring billing accuracy and accelerating cash flow. While other […]
FEATURED STORIES
What is GDPR?
Starting May 25, 2018, organisations that collect and store data on citizens in European Union (EU) countries must begin complying with strict new rules around protecting customer data. The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) applies to all organisations – regardless of their location – if they’re processing or storing personal data of EU data subjects. […]
How Intelligent Office use MI and analytics in administrative support functions
Most law firms accept the need for improving the use of management information (MI) and analytics. In fact, 59% of respondents to PwC’s Law Firms’ Survey 2017 stated that they were using, or planning to use, data and analytics in their business support functions. (Source: PwC’s Law Firms’ Survey 2017). As these law firms have identified, […]
Two thirds of firms are yet to publish their gender pay gaps
The deadline for gender pay gap reporting has now kicked in, but so far only two-thirds of qualifying firms have published their data. More than 6,000 companies have yet to disclose the average difference between pay for their male and female employees, despite the government warning that non-compliance with the new reporting regulations will result […]
Collyer Bristow selects Hubshare to enhance client collaboration
Leading London based law firm Collyer Bristow LLP have selected Hubshare from Nikec Solutions to enhance client collaboration. With a team of experienced lawyers that provide a comprehensive range of services to clients in the UK and internationally, Collyer Bristow had a requirement to share volumes of sensitive documents with their clients and 3rd parties […]
iManage sees wave of momentum among legal departments
iManage, the company dedicated to transforming how professionals work, today announced that legal departments, already the company’s fastest growing market, grew 25 percent faster in 2017 than just the previous 12 months. Over the past several years, iManage has been enhancing its products to meet the changing and evolving needs of modern legal departments. iManage’s […]
More firms choose Tikit P4W for practice and case management
Tikit, a global provider of technology solutions to legal firms, today announced ending its financial year with both record numbers of new P4W sites and record sales and looks to continue its success with the addition of two more firms to its P4W client base. Dorset based Aldridge Brownlee Solicitors and Irish law firm Fergus […]
Eclipse announces new functionality to cater for the Precedent S Electronic Bill of Costs
Eclipse Legal Systems, the Law Society’s endorsed legal IT provider, has announced updated functionality in its Proclaim solution to enable firms to utilise the new Electronic Bill of Costs. In April 2018 a new format was introduced for the billing of personal injury matters, mandated for completion via the new ‘Precedent S’ electronic bill. The […]
Freeths appoint Intelligent Office to deliver its support services
Intelligent Office UK (IO), the leading provider of PA, document production and administrative support services to the legal sector, has been appointed by Freeths to deliver its reprographics, mail and courier, front of house, records management and core goods procurement. The contract, which went live at the end of March 2018, saw 36 staff transfer […]
Get GDPR smart app launched – Cascade HR
With the weekly countdown to GDPR now in single figures, a new app has been launched to boost knowledge and compliance throughout UK workforces. Get GDPR Smart is the first app of its kind to be offered by a HR software vendor. Delivered by Cascade HR and powered by game-based training experts E3 Compliance Training, […]
UK hiring intentions hit record high, according to Cascade Go
With UK business output at a seven-month high, firms have stated that their hiring intentions are also at record high levels. The respected Accountant and business advisor BDO stated that their Optimism Index; which measures UK business output based on how companies expect to perform over the next six months; increased to 100.05 in March, […]
Livingstons Solicitors, the latest firm to select Linetime’s matter management
Livingstons Solicitors is a long established full-service law firm providing comprehensive legal advice to businesses and private clients alongside a specialist education department providing advice for both schools and parents. The firm has been pioneering fixed fee work and recognised that in order to meet this goal, operating efficiencies needed to be maximised. The decision was […]
Saving the criminal defence lawyer from extinction
Life is hard as a legal aid lawyer. Government cuts and a lack of funding has seen many leave the profession to the point where it is now thought that criminal defence lawyers could become extinct in England and Wales. It’s understandable that many would avoid entering the profession. You go to university and go through the LPC with […]
DAC Beachcroft implements Intapp Time to streamline time recording
International legal business enables mobile time recording and time capture to improve efficiency and realisation rates. Intapp, a leading provider of business applications for professional services firms, today announced that international law firm DAC Beachcroft LLP is now live on Intapp Time for time recording. DAC Beachcroft is currently rolling out Intapp Time to fee […]