I was with a client earlier this week and the topic of conversation turned to how they can track the effectiveness of some SEO and PPC that they were considering? The firm has a turnover of c. £12m with a marketing budget of 2.4% of turnover i.e. c. £290,000.  Not too shabby (they could spend more […]

No law firm in 2019 needs to be masking text instead of properly redacting it. The days of running a black marker over a hard copy and scanning it back in to create a new soft copy should be long gone. The modern equivalent – drawing a black box over content in Microsoft Word and converting to PDF – […]

With so much publicity given to serious data breaches and the devastating effect a hacked password can have for individuals and businesses, the most recent report from the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) makes for worrying reading. The NCSC takes the lead for the UK on cyber security and their damning report highlights the problems […]

LMS, the UK’s leading conveyancing panel manager, has selected CTS to provide a managed security service which enables the company to detect and respond to threats quickly, reducing the chances of a successful cyber-attack and building digital trust with its partners and customers. The service is focused on improving the firm’s Mean Response Time (MRT): […]

Explosive growth across US and Europe drives user conference expansion to 8 countries, with 1600 customers and partners to learn and share best practices on transforming how legal professionals work. ConnectLive 2019 brings together iManage customers and partners including CIOs, IT professionals, technical architects, knowledge workers and administrators. This year will be bigger and better – […]

RBRO Solutions Inc. (RBRO), a leading global work product management provider, is pleased to announce the successful cloud-to-cloud migration for Simons Muirhead & Burton LLP. RBRO Solutions was referred by iManage to Simons Muirhead & Burton to facilitate a backend iManage Work upgrade, as well as a migration between their cloud-based data centres. Established in […]

Staff at WBD will be able to work effortlessly across applications for PDF file editing, document comparison, and data protection thanks to a common user interface. DocsCorp, a leading provider of enterprise productivity solutions, today announced that Womble Bond Dickinson (WBD), a Top 40 UK firm, has switched to the DocsCorp desktop productivity suite as […]

Leading IT influencer Janet Day will head up a new Board to guide Tikit’s future product development Tikit, a global provider of technology solutions to legal and professional services firms, is delighted to announce that Janet Day will be chairing its newly formed Independent Product Advisory Board. Led by Day, the new independent board will […]

Acquisition of Chapman and Cutler LLP’s Closing Room for deal management and closing-bindergeneration now fully integrated within NetDocuments platform NetDocuments, the leading, secure cloud-based content services platform, today introduced SetBuilder, the fully-integrated NetDocuments application based on the acquisition of Chapman and Cutler’s Closing Room solution. NetDocuments SetBuilder provides users an easy way to combine and […]

CTS, formerly Converge Technology Specialists, has today announced the launch of a new corporate brand identity, name and logo. Recognised as one of the leading cloud and managed IT providers for law firms, the rebrand reflects CTS’ development and vision for the future. The new brand identity is designed to communicate CTS’ belief in empowering […]

QualitySolicitors Parkinson Wright has selected Liberate from Linetime as its business-wide legal services software platform. The Worcestershire based practice, with over 100 staff, operate from 4 offices and have a highly regarded reputation for their services including residential property, private client, family, dispute resolution and commercial. The firm also has its own estate agency. The […]

When law firms begin to research whether to outsource their secretarial and administrative support services, it can be difficult to know where to start. There’s a lot of information to take in, lots of jargon associated with outsourcing and the processes behind transferring services from in-house to a third party—all of which can act as […]

Law firms will tend to charge their clients in 4 ways: Hourly rates Fixed fees Capped fees Contingency fees (Damaged Based Agreements) Firms will approach time recording in a manner of different ways, for example, not recording time at all, recording only chargeable time or recording all time both chargeable and non-chargeable. The question is, […]