This article was also featured as an industry interview in the June 2016 issue of Briefing. To read the issue in full, download Briefing. You could possibly describe the evolution of law firm account management as the adaptation of processes in line with a more sophisticated understanding of what a firm needs to be chasing to maximise its chances […]

iManage today announced iManage Security Policy Manager and iManage Threat Manager, two new products that deliver powerful security enhancements to iManage’s industry-leading Work Product Management platform — giving professionals complete confidence and peace of mind that their critical work product is protected by solutions designed for today’s security threats. iManage security policy manager Security Policy […]

iManage today announced the release of iManage Work 10, a complete redesign of its market-leading document and email management application, packed with powerful new features that help today’s modern professionals work more productively on any device from anywhere. In conjunction with iManage Work 10, iManage has enhanced its iManage Cloud services to deliver significantly greater […]

This blog post was also featured as an industry interview in the July 2016 issue of Briefing. To read the issue in full, download Briefing.  One of the biggest overarching trends in technology for legal business is the placement of greater power in the hands of those closest to the business coming through the door every day. Fee earners […]

This blog post was also featured as an industry analysis piece in the July 2016 issue of Briefing. To read the issue in full, download Briefing.  The 2016 State of the Legal Market report, a collaboration between Thomson Reuters Peer Monitor and the Georgetown Law Center for the Study of the Legal Profession, posited that large law firms in the […]

This blog post was also featured as an opinion piece in the July 2016 issue of Briefing. To read the issue in full, download Briefing.  Challenges faced by a boutique law firm often mirror those faced by the largest professional services organisations. The resources that Clifford Chance can deploy to understand and resolve inefficiencies are broad and deep, and when […]

This blog post was also featured as a column in the July 2016 issue of Legal Practice Management magazine. To read the issue in full, download LPM magazine.  The ‘hire’ of Ross, the world’s first artificially intelligent lawyer, has recently been making the headlines. But delegation by human lawyers to software is by no means new. Many of […]

This blog post was also featured as a column in the July 2016 issue of Legal Practice Management magazine. To read the issue in full, download LPM magazine.  It’s an important debate for SME firms – do homegrown staf reign supreme, or is the investment in training too great and buying in speciality the way to go? Either […]

Although 2016 had its moments, a few trends are likely to create sleepless nights in 2017, some from excitement and some from dread. Security threats remain Linked to the growth of mobility and cloud computing, keeping data not only safe from theft, but safe from being held to ransom or blackmail (doxing) will become an […]

This article was also featured as an industry interview in the September 2016 issue of Legal Practice Management magazine. To read the issue in full, download LPM magazine. Competition and price pressures, and an increasingly digital client base are all significant drivers for law firms to become paperless businesses. Tony Klejnow, Linetime’s managing director, says firms could achieve competitive […]

This blog post was also featured as a column in the September 2016 issue of Legal Practice Management magazine. To read the issue in full, download LPM magazine. It’s that wonderful time of year when the annual bombardment of brokers begins on your never-silent telephones. All of them can “carry out a full market exercise” for you that will, […]

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NetDocuments, the leading native cloud document management system (DMS) and email management provider for law firms and corporate legal departments, announced today that Winckworth Sherwood has selected NetDocuments’ cloud-based service to replace its on-premises DMS technology after a thorough review of technologies available in the market today. “As a well-established firm that has gone through […]