Automated legal advice: rules, responsibility and risk allocation

Whilst fully automated legal analysis is still some distance away, a number of notable applications are already available—and some impressive commercially available functionality within a few years is highly realistic.  As law firms start to incorporate within their practices machine learning and AI tools, discussions between providers and clients will and should include questions around […]

Akin Gump adopts FileTrail for Information Governance Program

Leading international law firm to use FileTrail GPS to manage records retention, apply client requirements across information repositories. FileTrail today announced that Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP, a leading international law firm with more than 900 lawyers globally, has adopted FileTrail GPS to support its information governance program. Akin Gump will use FileTrail […]

Three approaches to protecting your law firm’s data and reputation

Which one is right for you? Nobody in the legal sector is denying the importance of cyber security. Protecting the sensitive data your firm holds on behalf of its clients is essential. It’s an established fact that the threat from cyber criminals is increasing and evolving rapidly, and law firms are responding by prioritising cyber […]

Shoosmiths migrate from LegalKEY onto the iCompli records and information governance platform

Top 50 UK law firm Shoosmiths LLP today announced they have moved onto the iCompli Records Management and Information Governance platform by LegalRM. Following a thorough selection and testing process, Shoosmiths have implemented iCompli for their 1,650 staff across their network of 12 offices. Commenting on the project, Dawn Ingle, Head of Enterprise Applications at […]

Accelerating your law firm’s response to cyber threats

“We’ve never been hit by a cyber attack, why do we need additional security measures?” It’s tempting to think that because your law firm hasn’t felt the full impact of a cyber attack, you’re not at risk, especially if you’ve already invested in security. But the threat landscape is changing, and there are many reasons […]

GDPR: Are the fines real?

  Under the General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR), organisations may be fined up to €20 million, or 4% of the total worldwide annual turnover of the preceding financial year, whichever is higher. In January 2019, the French Data Protection Authority fined Google €50 million for GDPR violations. When the European Union’s GDPR went into effect in […]

Best practices in contract management

Every organisation has contracts, but not every organization adequately manages its contracts. And while the nature and complexity of these agreements can vary widely, careful governance enables organizations to maximize their value and limit their exposure. On the other hand, contracts that are administered poorly—or not at all—tend to leak revenue, drive costs upward and […]

How confident are you in your firm’s redaction process?

No law firm in 2019 needs to be masking text instead of properly redacting it. The days of running a black marker over a hard copy and scanning it back in to create a new soft copy should be long gone. The modern equivalent – drawing a black box over content in Microsoft Word and converting to PDF – […]

Password security still taken too lightly

With so much publicity given to serious data breaches and the devastating effect a hacked password can have for individuals and businesses, the most recent report from the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) makes for worrying reading. The NCSC takes the lead for the UK on cyber security and their damning report highlights the problems […]

NetDocuments introduces SetBuilder to simplify document organization for transactional closings and more

Acquisition of Chapman and Cutler LLP’s Closing Room for deal management and closing-bindergeneration now fully integrated within NetDocuments platform NetDocuments, the leading, secure cloud-based content services platform, today introduced SetBuilder, the fully-integrated NetDocuments application based on the acquisition of Chapman and Cutler’s Closing Room solution. NetDocuments SetBuilder provides users an easy way to combine and […]