DPS Live 2018 brochure available online

In May of 2018 DPS Software hosted our annual User Group event at The IBM Client Centre in London. We do this to allow our current clients to keep up to date on what we are doing as a company, the recent enhancements to our software and to give them the chance to provide us […]

Make the most of business content, regardless of where it lives

It is nice to think that all your business content lives in your repository of record. That’s why you have invested so much into these systems. However, that may not always be the case. In many organizations, content bounces between various systems throughout its lifecycle. Some content might live in a CRM like Salesforce or […]

What are the emerging risks for law firms?

“The legal market is in a remarkable state of flux. In less than two decades, the way in which lawyers work will change radically,” writes Richard Susskind in Tomorrow’s Lawyers. These changes will pose new risks for law firms. Those that fail to manage them could struggle, but for nimble and forward-thinking firms, they present opportunities. […]

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) […]

Three ways centralising data will improve your legal operations

Too often critical information produced by modern law departments lives in disparate systems and varying formats. The decentralisation of data makes responding to questions from general counsels (GCs) frustrating for attorneys and legal operations professionals alike. This leads to instances where different individuals or teams may end up with completely different data – a side […]

Deal with disaster

As business growth goes, McMillan Williams Solicitors has certainly had a pretty fair share. When chief information officer David Fazakerley arrived less than five years ago, the business he took on had 10 offices and 160 staff. Today it has nearly tripled that – 28 offices, with a proportionate increase in revenue to £30m. Headcount, meanwhile, […]

Seven helpful tips for renewing your law firm’s Professional Indemnity Insurance

By Tim Grant, operations manager of Trinity. Partnering with LEAP legal software, Trinity recognises that through the use of LEAP’s practice management software, improvements in security and processes play a significant and important role when presenting and negotiating terms with insurers. Professional indemnity insurance (PII) is mandatory for any solicitors’ practice. The costs are significant […]

Barristers driven by legal sector digitisation, says Advanced Legal MD

Barristers across the UK are transforming the way they work to adapt to the continued digitisation of the legal system and adhere to General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). That’s according to Doug Hargrove at British software and services company Advanced, who also says that mobile and cloud technology innovations are driving these changes. Although steeped […]

tmgroup announce GDPR compliance as industry continues to rise to the challenges posed by fraudsters

PropTech company tmgroup are pleased to announce that they are GDPR compliant – following an intensive review process led by independent data protection officer, Richard Benham.  Replacing the Data Protection Directive (DPD) and the UK Data Protection Act 1998 as of 25th May 2018, the General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) are new regulations set out […]

NetDocuments releases ndThread for secure messaging and collaboration among professionals

NetDocuments, the leading cloud-based content management platform for law firms and corporate legal and compliance departments, has officially released ndThread, a social collaboration and matter-based messaging tool built within the NetDocuments cloud platform – now available to NetDocuments customers and prospects worldwide. The ndThread product comes to market less than six months after NetDocuments acquired […]