Briefing June 2018: Near pressure

A shore thing  As new Big Law process centres pitch up in Newcastle and Leeds, Briefing hears nearshoring opportunities for firms stretch further than cost savings.   Download your copy right now. FREE  What’s in this month’s issue?    The big idea: Legal business is busily disaggragating – and that’s an opportunity to disperse. Law firms explain which […]

Briefing supplement: Processing power

Briefing supplement: Processing powers Processing powers In this latest special spotlight supplement, Briefing navigates the apparent ‘automation gap’ within legal business for more insight into this technology’s efficiency gains and obstacles to implementation.   Download the supplement now for FREE What’s in this report? Feature: Arts of the process – how do firms choose where to channels their investments in […]

Briefing May 2018: Feel the path

Path binders  Leading law firms discuss the re-assessment of their skill mixes and bridging the worlds of legal knowledge and technology nous.   Download your copy right now. FREE  What’s in this month’s issue?    The big idea: Firms seem suddenly to be getting serious about investing in new pathways and training options for lawyers with a distinctly […]

Video: Briefing 5P 2017 – Pricing and profitability of legal services – Sam Davies, Herbert Smith Freehills

Video length: 19mins 21secs   What happens to profitability when people buy people? Sam Davies, pricing manager (now pricing lead) at Herbert Smith Freehills, discusses how firms can go from combative to collaborative pricing. Covering market forces and barriers to effective pricing and implementing L&D to teach client-facing staff to have robust pricing conversations.   Want […]

Briefing April 2018: Future frontiers

Frontiers runners  Who’s exploring the technology today to transform their businesses tomorrow?   Download your copy now for FREE  What’s in this month’s issue?    The big interviews: Leaders at IBM, law firm K&L Gates, Deloitte and BT discuss going further in the realms of artificial intelligence, blockchain, agile working and robotic process automation.  The main event: All the highlights from a […]

Briefing March 2018: Power to the portal

Power to the portal  Lines between law firm and client are blurring – but can they effectively bridge the data divide to a smarter management world?   Download your copy now for FREE  What’s in this month’s issue?    The big idea: Top law firms discuss their work building data bridges, including Bird & Bird, Osborne […]

Briefing February 2018: Ideas people

Ideas people  Everyone in legal is wrapping themselves up in innovation, but do they really feel the benefit?   Download your copy now for FREE  What’s in this month’s issue?    The big idea: We ask law firms and others about the business of managing innovation, including Mishcon de Reya, Dentons, Deloitte AG, Addleshaw Goddard and Judge […]

Briefing December 2017: Legal IT Landscapes 2018

How does your firm compare to peers when it comes to investment in uncovering the seeds of game-changing innovation? What’s the gap between your current levels of business process automation and the automation you think you could achieve with technologies already in the market today? And how secure do you feel in the current climate […]

Understand the influence by Steven Allen, Hogan Lovells

This article was originally featured as an opinion piece in the November issue of Briefing. To read the issue in full, download Briefing. We find ourselves in a world, increasingly, operating without borders. Commerce sans frontieres. Companies, particularly those listed, are under pressure to find new revenue lines and look to new markets in which to sell goods or […]

Briefing December 2017: Hit the roadmap

Hit the roadmap  Is a 10-year strategy a strong statement of the visionary or merely wishful thinking?   Download your copy now for FREE  What’s in this month’s issue?    The big idea: Leading law firm leaders, including at Withers, Keoghs, Irwin Mitchell and Ince & Co, outline what they make of a much longer-term strategy.  Team profile: The […]