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 […]

NetDocuments is in the business of trust. We securely store and deliver content services for our global customers 365 days a year, 24 hours a day. Every consumer has expectations that their product partners are honest. The NetDocuments team believes honesty and transparency are two sides of the same coin.   One unwavering promise we make […]

There are often opportunities to introduce other departments to your clients, and thus improve your law firm’s bottom line. Perhaps in a commercial situation when preparing a Shareholders Agreement where the company is acting for the shareholder, it’s necessary to review the pension arrangements for the shareholders. So you should introduce them to the firm’s […]

DPS Software is happy to confirm that we have once again achieved G Cloud Supplier Status under the Governments Crown Commercial Service. Our Legal Software Solutions have now been available via the digital marketplace for a number of years and several local authority legal teams have taken the opportunity to procure our software in this […]

10 years is a long time. IT and cybersecurity have seen a huge amount of change since 2008 – so how do industry practitioners feel now vs 10 years ago? Much to our surprise, backup has remained remarkably consistent. Internal behaviours and procedures have remained steady. Opinions around the state of backup have shifted positively. […]

As the hunt for talent becomes ever tougher, many employers are searching for increasingly unusual ways to stand out from the crowd. But what is the secret to attracting and retaining staff and is it possible to create a great office culture without relying on gimmicks? Oliver Shaw, CEO of Cascade HR, offers his thoughts… […]

NetDocuments, the leading secure cloud-based content management platform for law firms and corporate legal and compliance departments, today announced the availability of live and publically available cloud service status pages across its U.S., European and Australian global regions. These new sites are the result of significant efforts to bring live, relevant information directly to NetDocuments […]

Converge Technology Specialists (Converge TS) has today announced that serial tech entrepreneur Mark Fowle will be joining the business as non-executive Chairman. Following significant private equity investment in Converge TS at the beginning of the year, the company has expanded its team and service offering and is on-track to become the leading cloud provider to […]

It’s estimated that three quarters of small business owners forego holidays in order to keep things running smoothly at work. An inestimable number of senior workers are unable to fully switch off when on holiday over worries that issues will crop up that can’t be resolved without them. But everyone needs a holiday… Holidays help […]