Powering leadership through change – Briefing

As the legal sector undergoes profound change, five law firm leaders explore the essential skills current and future firm leaders must have to weather the storm Claire McNamara, director of knowledge and learning, Penningtons Manches Cooper Agility is a key skill for law firm leaders. The pace of change across client expectations, regulation and technology […]

Scaling operational readiness: Lessons from Troutman Pepper Locke- Harbor

Troutman Pepper’s merger with Locke Lord provides a blueprint for successful M&A integration, especially in the professional services sector. Starting early, building strong governance, encouraging ownership, and communicating transparently enabled the teams to work successfully toward seamless integration from Day One. When Troutman Pepper and Locke Lord agreed to combine, creating a 1,600-lawyer, 30+ office […]

How one firm cut billing time from days to hours with Clio

How Leiper Gupta Family Lawyers rebuilt its operations to grow faster, bill smarter, and keep client care at the centre of everything Leiper Gupta Family Lawyers (LGFL) was never meant to be a conventional firm. When Rita Gupta and her co-founder Anne Leiper set it up in 2008, they wanted autonomy and faster decision-making, free […]

Rubrik closes deals faster with AI legal knowledge agent developed with Harbor

When Rubrik’s salesforce doubled, so did the flood of legal questions. To keep pace, the legal team partnered with Harbor Labs to build an AI-driven solution that delivers fast answers at scale. As cybersecurity company Rubrik’s sales force practically doubled, so did the volume of legal questions via email regarding contract reviews, policy clarifications, and general procedures. Rather […]

Hugh James achieves CRM data hygiene goals by partnering with LexisNexis InterAction+ AI

Hugh James is a Top 100 UK law firm, employing more than 750 staff from its headquarters in Cardiff and in offices located in London, Manchester, Plymouth and Southampton. The firm provides a full range of legal services across a variety of industries, including banking and finance, property and construction, technology, media and telecommunications, energy […]

Ropes and Gray adopts Intapp DealCloud and Celeste to drive growth and AI

Intapp, the governed AI platform for professional firms in highly regulated industries, announces that Ropes and Gray LLP, a preeminent global law firm, has selected Intapp DealCloud to power growth and relationship management and Celeste to bring agentic AI across the firm — connecting intelligence across its growth, compliance, and profitability workflows. Ropes and Gray’s investment […]

Choosing the right partner: Why Burges Salmon chose Harvey

For Burges Salmon, four factors ultimately set Harvey apart from other legal AI platforms. For Burges Salmon’s leadership team, generative AI represented a major inflection point for the profession. “Over the course of my career we’ve seen computers, the internet, and mobile phones transform the way lawyers work,” says Managing Partner Roger Bull. “But generative […]

Talbots Law: Smarter finance through automation with Xperate

The challenge Talbots Law is a modern, growing UK law firm with a strong reputation for delivering high- quality legal services across the West Midlands. As the firm expanded through strategic mergers and acquisitions, its operational infrastructure needed to evolve to support that growth. Now with 600+ users, one area that required attention was the management of […]

How Clio Grow helped this law firm convert 50% more clients

In 2021, solicitor Aled Evans and partner and office manager Lara Evans decided to go it alone and set up Ubique Legal. Over the past couple of years, Birmingham-based Ubique Legal has grown from being a two-person practice operating out of a single bedroom into a seven-employee-strong law firm specialising in real estate, landlords, and property law. 

John Barkers Solicitors delivers growth with OneAdvanced

The firm is undergoing a three-firm merger of three well established law firms within the region – John Barkers Solicitors, Symes Bains Broomer Limited, and Brewer Wallace Limited – into a single, unified entity by 2026.