Aderant: iTimekeep for Outlook™ highlights July product release

iTimekeep, the #1 mobile time capture platform in the legal industry, announces its latest release. Capabilities of the iTimekeep platform have been expanded to offer ultimate convenience and availability to improve contemporaneous, accurate time capture by embedding iTimekeep within Microsoft Outlook™. Research has shown that 40% of workers’ time is spent checking and working on […]

BigHand announces three more PMS integrations for financial business intelligence solution

BigHand is excited to announce its latest integrations with Linetime Liberate, Eclipse Proclaim and Tikit P4W for its financial business intelligence (BI) dashboard solution, BigHand Quantum. Steered by customers of those PMS systems, these new integrations reinforce BigHand Quantum’s position as the leading data-agnostic BI solution in the UK legal market.   BigHand Quantum translates […]

Enable: Effective Experience Management – RFI Automation

Responding to client requests for information can be one of the most crucial aspects of a successful client proposal process, but how do you ensure that your BD team or those creating the RFI/RFP, have the right information to hand, to enable them to provide a qualified and swift response? Often a client will expect […]

Shishir Shetty promoted to Chief operating officer at Wilson Allen

Wilson Allen, provider of software, services, and expertise that help law firms and professional services organizations enhance business performance, today announced that Shishir Shetty has been promoted from VP of technology services to the newly created role of Chief Operating Officer, effective July 1, 2020. In this capacity, Shetty will oversee Wilson Allen’s day-to-day business […]

HBR Consulting: Tips for firms participating in an RFP process for a preferred outside counsel program

This is the final post of a three-part series focused on preferred outside counsel programs/processes. The first two posts provided suggestions for law departments planning or with existing firm rationalization processes and preferred outside counsel programs. In this post, we turn to the law firms that are invited to complete a request for proposal (RFP) […]

Briefing Tiger Team: Launch episode – Cash is king, but process is queen

Video length: 53 minutes 54 seconds. In this, our first Briefing Tiger Team session, we have the chief operating officer at Hogan Lovells (Darren Mitchell), head of legal project management and process improvement at Ashurst (Kate Bassett), finance director at Fieldfisher (Mike Giles), and director of BI and finance and practice management systems at Herbert Smith Freehills (Allison Scanlan). […]

HBR Consulting discuss four lessons for companies planning a preferred outside counsel program

During this time of economic uncertainty, deepening relationships has proven to be a high priority for corporations and law firms alike. In the long run, forming tighter partnerships and working through this challenge together will benefit all involved. Preferred outside counsel programs are one way to better define and strengthen relationships. Although focusing on rationalizing […]

Enable Business Solutions: Allowing out of sight but not out of mind for your fee earners

During the lockdown period, law firms will have had to respond to major operational disruptions with homeworking becoming a necessity for most. Ensuring staff remained efficient and compliant will likely have proven challenging. With the first stages of lockdown restrictions being eased, the return to work for most will become reality. This will be a […]

Clocktimizer: Changing law firms: Understanding the ROI of law firm process improvement

A survey performed by LexisNexis as recently as 2018 found that 74% of mid-sized firms in the UK do not measure the ROI for investments in technology. This is in spite of the fact that 87% believe that technology contributes to profit growth to ‘some extent’. Plainly, these two statistics are at the heart of […]

BigHand is honoured as Gold Stevie® award winner in 2020 American Business Awards

BigHand is delighted to be named the winner of a Gold Stevie® Award in the Company of the Year – Legal – Medium category in the 18th Annual American Business Awards® this week. The American Business Awards are the U.S.A.’s premier business awards program. All organisations operating in the U.S.A. are eligible to submit nominations […]