In February, The Law Society published its Lawtech Adoption Research report, which showed a rise in the number of lawtech firms supporting the work of law firms in the UK. There appears little doubt there is growing acceptance of how lawtech, like automation and AI, can help lawyers access, interrogate, understand and use large amounts […]

Email is Unsecure You’re probably already aware of the dangers associated with email, but we bet you’re still continuing to use it, despite the risks. In the current climate, it’s almost impossible to completely avoid using email as part of your daily communication, however, you should be making an effort to minimise your email usage […]

CTS is delighted to confirm that their client, Wilson Nesbitt, has been awarded the Government approved Cyber Essentials Plus accreditation. Established in 1948, Wilson Nesbitt is a Northern Ireland law firm with offices in Belfast and Bangor, providing professional legal services to businesses, lenders and private individuals across a range of legal issues. CTS played […]

Cybercrime is becoming an ever more frequent and sophisticated threat to law firms. At the same time regulatory compliance is becoming tougher, the penalties for non-compliance are escalating, and clients are insisting on exceptional security standards. A recent study by Briefing magazine showed that 72% of law firms are seeing an increase in security audit […]

AI-powered solution enables firms to monitor engagements, protect margins, manage scope, and provide more transparency to clients. Intapp, the industry cloud for professional and financial services, today announced the general availability of Intapp Pricing. Intapp Pricing helps firms maximize profitability with smart scoping, pricing and monitoring; and is an integral part of Intapp’s cloud-based platform […]

BigHand are delighted to release the latest version of its matter planning, pricing and tracking tool, BigHand Evaluate version 2.8. BigHand Evaluate enables legal teams to plan, manage and monitor all matters from a financial, regulatory and customer perspective. The tool provides legal teams with intuitive dashboards that provide the essential information to map and […]

SeeUnity, a leading provider of content integration and migration solutions for on-premise and cloud-based Enterprise Content Management applications, is pleased to announce the integration of its Echo Content Synchronization product (Echo) with cleanDocs from DocsCorp, a leading provider of enterprise productivity solutions. Customers using SeeUnity’s Echo to securely publish content from their DMS to their […]

Whilst fully automated legal analysis is still some distance away, a number of notable applications are already available—and some impressive commercially available functionality within a few years is highly realistic.  As law firms start to incorporate within their practices machine learning and AI tools, discussions between providers and clients will and should include questions around […]

The legal sector is rapidly evolving and many time-poor companies and solicitors are now tasked with finding new ways to manage workloads and their ever-growing pools of data. This has led to many businesses shifting previously manual practice and case management processes over to digital solutions and investing significantly in systems designed to relieve the […]

Most law firms will time record, enabling them to keep a record of the time spent on handling matters for their clients, and to raise their charges, but how effective is your firms’ time recording policy? Other than charging client does your firm use the wealth of data that is available from your time recording […]

1. No project brief You wouldn’t go on a holiday without doing some form of research or planning first, so why would you design a website without knowing what you want? Writing a brief doesn’t need to be complex, it just needs to have the following 3 areas: What do you want to achieve with […]

Quill awarded employee of the year at its recently held AGM to long-serving employee, Lynda Rostron. Having worked as a receptionist at its Manchester head office for 21 years, Lynda symbolises both the face and voice of Quill to employees and clients alike. Lynda is the second person to win the Peter Dye Memorial Shield, […]

Combining PDFs into a document bundle to be distributed to a client or filed with the Court can eat up hours of billable time. But it doesn’t have to. Automating the small but important tasks like generating a Table of Contents, applying security settings, and finding sensitive information that needs redaction can make the bundling […]