Weightmans’ managing partner Sarah Walton reflects on the key lessons learned in her first year of leadership, and outlines how the firm is shaping up its new chapter through targeted mergers, disciplined growth and thoughtful innovation. What were the key factors that influenced the decision to merge with Elborne Mitchell and Myton Law, and what […]

The question for transactional legal teams is no longer whether to adopt AI. It’s how to adopt it in a way that actually moves deal work forward. Most tools available today solve only half the problem. They surface information. They flag issues. They make lawyers more aware. But awareness isn’t execution — and execution is […]

Law firms store decades of negotiated intelligence in documents. An ontology is what turns that accumulated experience into an understandable resource that the whole firm can draw on. There is a version of institutional knowledge that lives stuck in documents, and another that lives in people. Most law firms have invested heavily in the former […]

Moving to a legal aid management system without losing the workflow your team relies on Key reasons legal aid firms require an Outlook Add-On for Legal Aid software: Even a thirty-second delay in capturing a completed task can silently erode a Legal Aid firm’s profitability and skew monthly reporting. The success of a system migration […]

Key takeaway Scaling a law firm on fragmented systems does not just create friction. It creates structural risk that compounds with every office, jurisdiction, and matter added Law firm growth amplifies existing fragmentation. It does not create new problems Law firm management at scale depends on visibility that does not require manual assembly A connected […]

Today on The Legal Helm, we’re joined by Mark Dorman, CEO of Elite. Mark’s career has been shaped by leading large-scale transformation across global organizations—helping businesses navigate complex market change while scaling SaaS platforms and driving innovation through technology.   At Elite, he is currently leading one of the most important evolutions in legal technology, guiding the […]

Part one of a four-part series: AI for the business of law 78% of law firms don’t have a defined AI strategy. That number, from Thomson Reuters’ 2025 Future of Professionals Report, might not sound alarming on its own — until you see what it means for the firms that do. Wolters Kluwer’s 2026 Future Ready Lawyer […]

Something significant is shifting in how law firms govern vendor relationships. Procurement is increasingly reporting to the Office of the General Counsel, a structural change that reflects how seriously firms now view vendor risk. But responsibility and capability don’t always arrive together. Many legal teams find themselves accountable for a vendor ecosystem; they don’t yet […]

You can now take unstructured legal inputs and build interactive timelines, entity charts, compliance matrices, and dashboards directly in Harvey. Legal work is built on complex data: webs of entities, sequences of events, regulatory requirements across jurisdictions. It takes significant time to extract patterns from that data, and it can take just as long to […]

The Legal Software Suppliers Association held a special member meeting in London this week to follow up on the government’s latest updates on home buying reform and to examine the role legal technology will play in delivering change across the sector. The meeting built on earlier engagement between the LSSA and the Ministry of Housing, […]

Litera, the legal AI platform provider that best unifies the practice and business of law, published the eBook, “Legal Departments at the Leading Edge: How General Counsel Are Navigating a New Era of Corporate Risk,” revealing while today’s General Counsel are stepping into their role as trusted strategic advisors, the governance infrastructure required to manage […]

Miles Osborne, director of customer success (global) at Bundledocs, explores how law firms can enhance document control without compromising on efficiency. There is a long-standing assumption in many law firms that control measures, such as file permissions and review steps, make for slower processes. It is easy to understand this thinking. Modern governance can mean […]

Harbor, the leading provider of professional and technology services to the legal industry, has announced its acquisition of iTrain, a specialist UK firm in legal technology training, user adoption, change management, and AI enablement. The acquisition expands Harbor’s legal technology enablement capabilities in the UK and deepens the firm’s ability to help global clients realise […]