This month, LPM magazine finds out how SME firms might take advantage of deregulation Download your FREE copy now Feature: Solicitors will soon be allowed to work for unregulated firms while retaining their professional title – will these reforms tempt law firms to ditch practice-wide regulation? Richard Parnham reports Hard knocks: Richard Clark, COO at Manchester-based CFG Law, on […]

Last month, I had the pleasure of moderating an excellent panel at the Consero Legal Operations Forum entitled “Dashboards & Portals: Leveraging Existing Operational Investments for Greater Returns,” in Pasadena, CA.  My esteemed panelists included Scott Fuller from Applied Materials, Brian Pomeroy from Discover Financial Services, Elizabeth Miller from Dolby Laboratories, Julie Cremeans from Fair, and Emelita […]

  Miller’s Paddy Synnott, met with Richard Cramer, founder and partner of FrontRow Legal in Leeds, and talked to him about the highs and lows of setting up his own law firm including the difficulty in getting insured. What prompted you to go it alone? I originally set up my own practice in 2002, before […]

A few weeks ago, we launched a 3-part article series about information governance (IG) for law firms. Every year, IG is getting more complex. As a result, even when law firms successfully launch IG programs they are often unable to follow through on implementation. High overhead costs and detailed manual procedures mean that compliance with IG policies […]

The effects of the new gender pay reporting legislation due next week will be staggering and long-lasting, believes Oliver Shaw, CEO of Cascade HR. In fact, the degree of exploitation that the law could uncover, may well be as profound in impact as the #MeToo movement that rocked the workplace in late 2017. Here, he […]

Many times, organisations implement systems that users never adopt. This is a common challenge across industries and very much so in the ECM space. In this blog, we are going to provide a few tips for how you can increase user adoption of various systems across your organisation. 1.     Involve users One of the biggest […]

We’ve talked in the past about file sharing and collaboration and the problems that can arise from letting your employees decide how they want to do this. In our Navigating the Hurdles of Synchronization whitepaper, we use the example of when lawyers were working in a conference room that had a public Wi-Fi to share content with […]

2017 was yet another successive year of strong growth for Quill clients. That’s according to analysis undertaken by Quill using 4 years’ worth of anonymised accounts billings data for a sample of over 400 legal software and outsourced cashiering service clients. Some key findings from Quill’s research of law firms’ financial performance are:- 22% increase in average […]

Article by Derek Schutz, Product Manager Business Intelligence, Aderant “Fortune favors the prepared mind.” – Louis Pasteur   It’s almost an annual affair in the legal community. By the second quarter of every year, we see a series of reports on lateral hiring in law firms. Each year, these reports seemingly draw similar conclusions: While lateral […]

Frontiers runners  Who’s exploring the technology today to transform their businesses tomorrow?   Download your copy now for FREE  What’s in this month’s issue?    The big interviews: Leaders at IBM, law firm K&L Gates, Deloitte and BT discuss going further in the realms of artificial intelligence, blockchain, agile working and robotic process automation.  The main event: All the highlights from a […]

With internal resources stretched like never before (and clients relentlessly expecting more for less), law firms have been outsourcing their support services to experts in the field—and they’ve had great success. By working in this new way, these firms freed up time for fee earners and were better able to capitalise on growth opportunities, with […]

Legal Workflow, the pioneering IT consultancy and creator of innovative products and services for the legal profession, have just completed a rebrand and launched our new website at www.legalworkflow.com. We also exhibited and presented during LegalEx 2018 at Excel in London on 21st and 22nd March 2018. On our stand we talked to visitors and shared news on […]

LEAP, the world’s leading cloud software provider for small to mid-sized law firms, announces the launch of the Best Practice Standard for conveyancing. The scheme is aimed at assisting law firms to achieve and maintain the highest standards of conveyancing. One key element of the Best Practice Standard is that a firm has independent audits […]