This article was also featured as an industry insight piece in the LPM Legal IT landscapes 2017 report. Click here to download the report for free. The pace of technological change in the top 100 law firms can be taken for granted, to an extent – but it’s encouraging to see that a willingness to explore new […]

Video Length: 7 mins 15 secs   This video features Karen Jacks, CIO of Bird & Bird, Colin Wardale CFO of Hill Dickinson and Nick West, CSO of Mishcon de Reya, who have come together to answer the question: Artificial intelligence: What is it and how do law firms utilise it?

New start-up firm, Progressive Solicitors, is implementing the Proclaim Practice Management Software solution from Eclipse Legal Systems, the Law Society’s sole endorsed provider. Based in Manchester, the firm was founded in late 2016 and has quickly established a clear ambition to become a leading firm across the North West. Progressive Solicitors offers services for all […]

iManage today announced that it is seeing significant momentum within its global network of partners, adding 35 new partners worldwide during 2016 bringing the total number of partners to more than 150. This well-established and rapidly growing ecosystem allows iManage to better meet increasing demand around the world for its industry-leading Work Product Management solutions, […]

Wilson Legal Solutions, a leading provider of consulting services and analytics software for law firms and professional services organizations, today announced its systems and information security services, a selection of offerings that enables firms to manage, optimize, and secure software instances and the IT infrastructure and data with less effort, cost, and risk. “There is […]

LSN made the journey to bright and breezy Bristol last Tuesday to hold our lunchtime networking event. The weather couldn’t make up its mind but 75 people made a conscious effort to attend LSN’s Bristol Law Forum, 59 law firm guests and 16 of our amazing networkpartners, as you can imagine The Cosy Club was […]

This article was originally featured in the February 2017 issue of LPM magazine, download LPM. To learn more about this year’s LPM conferences take a look at the pages for LPM Birmingham and LPM London.  SME firms face a challenging future and wherever they operate, no matter their client base, those that constantly evolve and innovate […]

Last Wednesday 22 February we had our first regional networking event of 2017 in the ‘ever so rainy’ Birmingham. But the weather didn’t dampen anyone’s spirits, in fact we saw 52 people in Ludgate Hill’s Stirlings Bar – 11 of our trusty networkpartners and 41 law firm guests. If that wasn’t enough to get the […]

Commercial law firm Brabners, has selected Lexis InterAction as its customer relationship management (CRM) solution of choice from LexisNexis Enterprise Solutions, a technology provider who works in partnership with customers to help transform legal services. InterAction will facilitate greater collaboration among fee earners across Brabners’ practice areas to deliver a better service to clients. Over 340 fee earners and […]

This article was also featured as an industry view in the February 2016 issue of LPM. To read the issue in full, download LPM.  Attracting new clients was the top concern of small and mediumsized law firm respondents when the results came in from our Lawyer-Entrepreneur 2017 report (October 2016). The respondents also agreed that while growth forecasts are good, […]

This article was also featured as a column in the February 2016 issue of LPM. To read the issue in full, download LPM.  Happy new year, LPM readers. Yes, it’s a bit belated – but to those who haven’t received our newsletter, we wanted to say may 2017 be a wonderful year. Now let’s move onto the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation […]

This article was also featured as a column in the February 2016 issue of LPM. To read the issue in full, download LPM.  With the regulatory and legal landscape in a constant state of evolution, what services should you expect from your insurance broker, and how have these expanded over the past decade? Traditionally, a broker will represent your risk in the […]

This article was also featured as a column in the February 2016 issue of LPM. To read the issue in full, download LPM.  Over the past 18 months, I’ve noticed a significant change in the internal structure of law firms. As firms experience a change cycle for technology (such as updating IT systems or installing a new practice/case management system) they take […]