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 […]

LegalRM Limited, experts in records management and information governance solutions to law firms, has entered into a technology partnership with iManage, the company dedicated to transforming how professionals get work done by combining the power of artificial intelligence with market leading document and email management. The new partnership with iManage will help customers adopt iManage […]

This article was originally featured as an industry column in the March 2018 issue of LPM. To read the issue in full, download LPM. Does your firm have a data strategy? According to a study conducted by Harvard Business Review, less than half of an organisation’s structured data was actively used in making decisions and less than 1% […]

This article was originally featured as an industry column in the March 2018 issue of LPM. To read the issue in full, download LPM. A good customer experience should be a given in any transaction, but we all know from experience that that’s not always what we receive. Sometimes an experience is sullied in a very deliberate manner […]

Last week, 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 isn’t 100%—or even followed […]

This article was originally featured as an industry analysis in the March 2018 issue of LPM. To read the issue in full, download LPM. Having attended numerous law conferences, I always find there is someone who will stand up and suggest that technology used by solicitors is out of date. But in my opinion, that is not necessarily […]

Conveyancers will soon be able to reduce the number of requisitions their firm receives with the arrival of post-completion services on tmconvey.  Designed to diminish the chance of manual error, this newest addition to the tmconvey platform will help conveyancers rise to the increasing pressure from Land Registry and HMRC to submit their SDLT and […]