Higgs & Sons selects Aderant Expert as its software partner

A West Midlands law firm has chosen a global industry leader to deliver its legal practice and financial management software. Putting innovation and agility to the top of its wish list, Higgs & Sons hand-picked Aderant Expert as its new partner. Higgs sought a flexible, ready-to-deploy product that enhanced its legal service delivery and met […]

HBR Consulting: How law firms can assess and adapt to changing skill needs for information governance

As law firms recognize the growing importance of an information governance (IG) strategy, they are beginning to think about how they can transform traditional records management (RM) staff into true IG professionals. This shift, which is driven by increasing regulatory demands and pressure from clients for stronger security, is making firms realize that IG requires […]

Fieldfisher rolls-out LexisOne to German office network

Shortly after the roll-out of its ERP system, LexisOne™, in Belgium; European law firm, Fieldfisher, has now deployed the solution across its network of German offices including Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg and Munich.  LexisOne is a cloud-native SaaS solution built on Microsoft Dynamics 365, which Fieldfisher has used to replace eight other core business systems. Fieldfisher […]

HBR Consulting: Law firms must act with urgency to keep pace with law department analytics maturity

I had a clear message to deliver to those in attendance when I took the stage at this year’s International Legal Technology Conference (ILTACON): law departments are gathering, centralizing and sharing more data than ever, and many law firms are lagging behind. During the presentation, “Data Gathering and Sharing by GCs,” I was joined by […]

HBR Consulting – Office 365 teams: The surprising disruptor

October was once again packed with conferences, from large international events to smaller regional and industry-specific seminars and roundtables. If there was one word that was thematic across all of these events this year, it was “disruption.” It has lead me to ask, “what is the most disruptive innovation today related to how we manage, […]

HBR Consulting: Why your organisation needs a data map

At this year’s annual ARMA Live! Conference in Anaheim, we conducted an informal survey of the 300+ visitors to our booth, asking a single question: “What is your greatest information governance challenge today?” We received a variety of responses including: Lack of sufficient resources / funding Outdated retention schedules Lack of Office 365 governance expertise Inability to […]

Law firm library services: Four questions to guide strategic budgeting by HBR Consulting

Fall is officially here, and many of us are already enjoying colorful leaves and cooler weather. Along with these pleasures of the season, many law firms are also gearing up for another budget cycle. While the annual process of reviewing prior spend and projecting future costs can be time-consuming, it is worthwhile to use budget […]

Aderant appoints Steve Buko senior vice president and chief technology officer

Seasoned technology leader, with more than 25 years of experience with enterprise software, selected to lead the next phase of Aderant’s future development. After a thorough search that produced several outstanding candidates, Aderant is pleased to announce that Steve Buko will be its new Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, leading all product engineering. […]

HBR Consulting – #SOLID18 East reveals legal innovation themes and emerging best practices

The Summit on Legal Innovation and Disruption (SOLID) East, held on September 13, 2018 in New York City, delivered on its promise to bring together professionals who are transforming the legal industry. The daylong event held an action-packed sprint of 14 TED Talk-style sessions spanning the full spectrum of stakeholders in the legal ecosystem. SOLID […]

HBR Consulting’s business acceptance survey report

Business acceptance practices have become more complex and strategic over the past several years as departments have evolved from back office, risk management functions to vital, strategic partners to the organisations they support. Law firms that have invested early to strengthen business acceptance activities are adding value in the form of better data collection and […]