Outsourcing your cashiering: Tips from Quill

Once you’ve decided to outsource your legal cashiering, any supplier will do, right? After all, the way these outsourcing providers manage your accounts and support your business is the same, isn’t it? Surely the only difference will be the price you pay for the service, won’t it? The answer to these conundrums is a resounding […]

LPM July/August 2018: Who are you?

Download your FREE copy now   This month:LPM magazine discusses culture, and what makes law firms who they are. Special supplement:Data works – Our friends at Quiss celebrate 30 years of technology by exploring how firms are leveraging their own IT and data. Feature:Guest writer Lucy Trevelyan investigates how a law firm’s culture is born.  LPM asks: Vidisha Joshi, managing […]

Taking corporate legal operations to the next level: moving from ‘advanced’ to ‘mature’

This is the final article in a three-part series of blog posts designed to help corporate law departments take their operations up a notch. In Part One, we provided an overview of maturity models for six of the twelve CLOC Core Competencies that we reviewed with participants in HBR’s educational program at the 2018 CLOC Institute. […]

How top law firms are transforming their operations by thinking beyond financial reporting

During my recent visit to Denver for the 2018 Aderant Momentum conference, I noticed a common theme as I interacted with attendees at the conference: Many law firm leaders are currently questioning the effectiveness of their financial reporting systems. This is not the first time we have observed the legal industry seeking out more robust technology systems […]

Pricing utopia: Helm360 on how to price legal engagements effectively

The art of estimating accurately has long been a challenge – whether that be to estimate the development effort to build a software product or estimating the effort required to represent a client who is suing another party, the outcome remains the same… estimating accurately leads to higher customer satisfaction, higher quality output and above […]

Taking corporate legal operations to the next Level: Moving from “Foundation” to “Advanced”

In a previous blog post, my colleague Kevin Clem provided an overview of six unique maturity models that we laid out to participants in HBR’s educational program at CLOC’s 2018 Corporate Legal Operations Institute. Our invitation in that initial post was to study these models and conduct a self-evaluation to determine where your department fits, then […]

LPM June 2018: Power Play

Download your FREE copy now   This month:LPM magazine finds out what makes SME firms competitive. Special supplement:Unite to thrive – Our friends at Tikit give the lay of the land on how law firms can benefit from an ecosystem of solutions. Feature:Guest writer Richard Parnham examines how law firms in the vast SME market can make themselves heard. Law firm […]

Back to the future: Do the SRA’s proposals achieve its objectives?

The SRA is once again looking to reduce the minimum level of PI cover to £500,000. But do its proposals achieve their objectives?  In March 2018, the SRA published a consultation, “Protecting the users of legal services: balancing costs and access the legal services”, which outlines proposals for the Solicitors’ Compensation Fund and professional indemnity insurance (PI) […]

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 […]

Catch-all solution to in-house staffing problems: outsourcing!

Every employer knows that, at some point in their life, employees will be absent and depart their place of work. Such matters are not always possible to predict. That’s the main reason for the immense popularity of outsourced cashiering services as a more reliable alternative to in-house staff. Businesses have a real fight on their […]