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 […]

Move to iManage Cloud provides a future-proofed platform for document and email management iManage, the company dedicated to transforming how professionals work, today announced that Stronachs LLP – one of Scotland’s leading independent law firms – has selected iManage Work for its document and email management, all in the iManage Cloud. “The goal was to move […]

Scott Brown, digital services manager at Accesspoint, answers questions about making your website more visible to clients. Q) How does Google work exactly? A) The web is continually evolving, with new content added daily. Every single second of the day, Google is crawling the web to organise all of this information to form and display its […]

We react to the reports that the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) have put their reforms for the professional indemnity (PI) insurance market on the back-burner. In March 2018, the SRA published a consultation “Protecting the users of legal services: balancing cost and access to legal services”, which outlines proposals for the Solicitors’ Compensation Fund and […]

Scheme helps law firms mitigate risk, increase compliance and reduce professional indemnity insurance premiums. LEAP, the world’s leading legal software provider for small to mid-sized law firms, is celebrating the success of its Best Practice Standard (BPS) conveyancing accreditation scheme as it reaches its one-year milestone. The Best Practice Standard was set up to help […]

Top 100 UK multi-disciplinary law firm Walker Morris is investing in Lexis®  Visualfiles™ to deliver the stringent technology, efficiency and risk management requirements of customers and effectively compete with other high calibre law firms in its market segment. Initially the solution will be deployed to the firm’s mortgage repossession department, with a subsequent implementation to […]

Ask a lawyer about their specialist area of law and they’ll be happy to talk all day. Ask them about the technology that supports their legal practice and they’ll mostly clam up. Why? Because the technology industry seems to have a secret language all of its own that normal business people – and I include […]

Artificial Intelligence (AI) was a term first used in the 1950s to describe machines that mimic certain operations of the human mind and complete tasks that normally require human intelligence. At the core of AI today is Machine Learning, where computers use rules (algorithms) to analyse data, discern patterns and gather insight. AI is increasingly […]

Tikit, a global provider of technology solutions to legal firms, today announced that Glanvilles Damant and Thackray Williams are the latest firm to adopt their practice and case management solution; Partner for Windows. Glanvilles Damant is a highly respected, full service law firm based on the Isle of Wight. They have a strong reputation for […]

It is with pride but also a heavy heart that LegalRM announce the retirement of Keith Dacey. As one of the original founders of LegalRM, Keith has been an integral part of the company’s development and expansion over the past 12 years and will be missed by clients and colleagues alike.  Keith, and wife Catherine, will […]

Law firms across the UK are transforming the way they work, adapting to the continued digitisation of the legal sector. Although steeped in traditional practice methodology, many lawyers and barristers are rising to this challenge and starting to put digitisation at the heart of their growth strategy. Partly driven by the government’s Digital by Default directive […]