New litigation firm, JPS Walker, is implementing the Proclaim Practice Management Software solution from Eclipse Legal Systems, the Law Society’s sole endorsed provider. Based in Manchester, the firm has been launched by a team of expert solicitors, and will specialise in niche areas of litigation, including financial mis-selling and holiday claims. The boutique firm aims […]

This month, LPM magazine’s Legal IT Landscapes supplement looks at whether SME firms have an IT strategy that’s fit for purpose, with insight from issue sponsors Tikit, Thomson Reuters and IManage. Download your FREE copy now Feature: We crunch the results of our Legal IT Landscapes survey to find out, with insight from legal leaders, what’s going on in […]

This month, LPM magazine asks if SME firms can learn virtual management. Download your FREE copy now Feature: We speak to Lucy Scott-Moncrieff, former president of the Law Society and founder of Scomo (the UK’s first virtual firm), to find out how legal leaders can manage law firm workers from afar.  LPM Birmingham: We cover […]

Afridi & Angell, a United Arab Emirates full service business law firm,  has selected Lexis InterAction from LexisNexis Enterprise Solutions as the firm’s client relationship management solution of choice. The solution will provide lawyers and partners with relationship insight and the most current information on client-related marketing and business development activities. They will be able to leverage the intelligence to […]

According to PwC’s latest law firm report, 73% of the top 100 UK law firms reported that they had suffered a security incident in the last 12 months (up from 62% in 2015). These are the firms with the biggest IT budgets and entire risk and compliance teams devoted to ensuring they stay on the […]

Video Length: 6 mins 30 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: how do you see technology having a significant impact on the strategic direction on firms now and in the […]

This article was also featured as an industry analysis in the February 2016 issue of Briefing. To read the issue in full, download Briefing. Moving office is an opportunity for a business to change much more than its address. By working with outside experts – architects and technologists – it may be possible to overhaul both the physical […]

Let’s get flexible  Briefing asks top 100 law firm leaders – plus the new band of freelance and virtual legal business – exactly how their agile arrangements are working. Download your copy now for FREE  What’s in this month’s issue? Feature: Business services leaders at Clifford Chance, DWF, Brodies, Keystone Law, LOD and Vario at Pinsent Masons offer up experiences and top tips for moving […]

This article was also featured as an industry interview in the Februrary 2016 issue of LPM. To read the issue in full, download LPM. There’s no problem with outsourcing – the issue’s the terminology. It’s too broad. There’s a perception that if any part of your service involves outsourcing, the whole of your service and, by association, the […]

This article was also featured as an industry interview in the Februrary 2016 issue of LPM. To read the issue in full, download LPM. My, my, my, who can believe we are one month through 2016 already! I would firstly like to wish all the LPM readers a wonderful and successful 2016. So what are the plans for […]

This article was also featured as a column in the Februrary​ 2016 issue of LPM. To read the issue in full, download LPM. For the majority of law firms the compliance burden is one that increases year on year. Outcomes focused regulation puts firms under pressure to prove results without always providing a sufficient framework within which to operate. […]

This article was also featured as a column in the Februrary​ 2016 issue of LPM. To read the issue in full, download LPM. We all know that ‘difficult’ clients are just part of working in professional services, but there are degrees of what constitutes difficult, and there are degrees to which employees (or partners) are equipped to deal with […]

This article was also featured as an industry interview in the March 2016 issue of Briefing. To read the issue in full, download Briefing. The latest plans for a new EU General Data Protection Regulation – negotiations taking place in December last year – see the prospect of a fine equating to 4% of global turnover for infringements that affect […]