Don’t believe the hype, implementing HR software doesn’t mean taking the ‘human’ out of human resources. Nearly three-quarters of HR professionals feel that they don’t possess enough knowledge of how artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning works, according to a poll in a recent Cascade-sponsored webinar. Yet, the same amount also felt that AI has […]

NetDocuments, the leading cloud-based content management and security platform for law firms and corporate legal and compliance departments, announced today that legal industry expert, Guy Phillips, has joined the company as general manager, EMEA to support the market demand and company growth across the region as well as APAC.  “We’re thrilled to be attracting people […]

Linetime is pleased to announce they will once again be sponsoring this year’s Alternative Legal IT Conference to be held at The Forest of Arden Country Club on the 25th & 26th September. This year marks the 10th anniversary of the conference the only one totally focused on how IT can support and influence the […]

Channel reseller Perrywell has today announced that it has joined the Advanced partner programme – TruePartner. The appointment demonstrates its commitment to helping SMEs accelerate their transformation to the Cloud, which it believes is being driven by demand from a new generation of decision maker in what is an evolving workforce market. With recent Advanced research revealing […]

Hat Trick Productions – one of UK’s most successful independent television production companies – has implemented iManage Cloud within its legal and human resources departments, giving them a new way to access iManage’s industry-leading document and email management. Hat Trick’s legal and human resources departments have long relied on iManage Work to collaborate more securely […]

Property Hub Network events are engaging an increasing number of property professionals across the country – with a combination of NEW and returning locations taking the series up to 11 events this autumn. Facilitated by tmgroup, Property Hub Network events are bite-sized, 2-hour sessions that bring representatives from all parties involved in the property transaction […]

North Wales law firm Bone & Payne Solicitors has signed up to integrated practice and matter management with SOS Connect from Solicitors Own Software. A full-service firm with offices in Llandudno, Colwyn Bay and Old Colwyn, Bone & Payne opted to change its legal software supplier after more than 20 years with its previous incumbent. “We’d had our previous software package since the mid-1990s and our supplier was really just maintaining the system, and not […]

The Pareto Principle (also known as the 80/20 rule) states that 20% of what you do will generate 80% of your results. Therefore, a law firm should inevitably focus greater attention on the 20% of activities that generate revenue. Understandably, this means that non-revenue generating activities can get de-prioritised. In firms, this can lead to […]

Law firms are becoming increasingly aware that they need to look for ways of improving efficiency in all areas of their organisation, including their administrative support functions. A recent report on the trends and opportunities in law firm outsourcing demonstrates that firms are broadening the approach they take when it comes to solving these issues. […]

Summertime – and the living can be less than easy if you have to work in a hot office. And with 80 per cent of UK office workers thought to complain about the temperature in their workplace, it’s hardly a trivial matter, with half of UK offices believed to be too hot during the summer. A hot, sweaty […]

European law firm, Fieldfisher, has extended the firm’s enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, LexisOne, from LexisNexis Enterprise Solutions to its Belgium office in Brussels.  This expansion is part of the phased rollout of LexisOne to Fieldfisher’s ever-expanding international office network, to create a unified business environment across the law firm.   Fieldfisher has rationalised its business […]

Whenever a firm first selects our CRM solution, Lexis InterAction, the business case is always built around of the holy trinity of business development objectives: client retention, client growth and winning new business. InterAction is a proven solution and hence the undisputed product of choice for today’s law firm. 72% of the 50 largest and […]

Only 13% of business leaders have an effective “wellbeing” strategy in their workplace, despite growing concerns that stress-related conditions are causing misery for many workers, a business event was told. Around 75% of respondents to the study conducted by Cascade, the human resources and payroll software firm, also reported that mental health problems posed the biggest […]