Briefing report: The new recruiting

This report features the Legal Support Network recruitment survey and was sponsored by Codex Edge, part of Cogence Search. Our recruitment survey focussed on the extent to which direct sourcing was taking hold in large law firms. We questioned whether firms had a formal strategy, how they were resourcing themselves and what levels of success they were having […]

Industry analysis from Intapp: A brighter day for cloud

The article was originally featured as an industry analysis in the April 2017 issue of Briefing magazine, download Briefing.  Law firms have been understandably cautious in their approach to cloudbased services – taking a wait-andsee approach as technologies are tried, tested and proven. However, there are many signs that the winds have changed. In 2016, 62% of […]

Industry interview from Accesspoint Technologies: Recipe for recovery

This article was originally featured as an industry interview in the April issue of LPM. To read the issue in full, download LPM.   Are SME firms prepared for disaster? In the past, they mainly had to contend with fire or flood, but in an increasingly digital world there are more catastrophes waiting to strike than ever […]

Briefing April 2017: Team players

Team players  Cornelius Grossmann, global head of law at EY, on why it’s hard to beat the Big Four when it comes to the collaborative pitch. Download your copy now for FREE  What’s in this month’s issue? Big interview: Cornelius Grossmann, global head of law at EY, takes time out to talk the model of differentiation, demanding supply […]

Radical regulatory change – LPM magazine, April 2017 – Big bang two

This month, LPM delves into the impact of the potential new regulatory changes set to hit legal. Download your FREE copy now Feature: A decade on from the Legal Services Act, we ask legal leaders if they’re ready for the next stage of radical regulatory reform – or whether it’ll mean certain doom for SME […]

Industry interview with iManage: Learning to leverage

This article was originally featured as an industry interview in the March issue of Briefing. To read the issue in full, download Briefing.    Delivering effective legal services to clients relies heavily on successful collaboration. Businesses thrive on it and it’s important that it exists in many places, even between a firm and a vendor that […]

Quiss: Phishing simplified – social engineering simplified

You would hope by now that everyone understands the dangers lurking within email, yet 1 in 10 individuals will still fall foul of a phishing attack. More than 90% of hacking attacks follow a phishing or spear-phishing email and increasingly it is employees being targeted – they are the weak link in your security. Unfortunately, […]

Operational Leaders in Legal conference 2017 – highlights from the day

See pictures from the day here     Download the speaker’s presentation slides and the full agenda from the day [View the story “Operational Leaders in Legal conference 2017” on Storify]

Helm360 discusses the critical component of a successful legal software implementation

Change is difficult. In the world of software implementation, how we manage this change is crucial to the outcome of a project. In a previous life, I had the fortune of seeing the impact of many legal software implementations (Thomson Reuters Elite Enterprise, Webview and then Elite 3E), both from a support and execution perspective. […]

Crushing cash collection – LPM magazine, March 2017 – Show me the money

This month, LPM magazine asks if SME firms can learn virtual management. Download your FREE copy now Feature: We speak to legal leaders to find out how firms can crush their cash collection practices.  Law firm profile: Harper James’s CEO Toby Harper delves into the advantages of delivering legal services on a subscription basis. Book review: […]