Briefing: ‘Leaders must accept that change isn’t always comfortable’ Sarah Walton:

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 […]

Introducing the Litera Office & Dragons AI agent: autonomous execution for legal deal workflows

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 […]

Draftwise: What is a legal ontology, and why does it matter?

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 […]

Accesspoint: Introducing outlook time recording for Legal Aid manager

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 […]

sa.global: How to scale law firm operations without losing control

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 […]

Briefing: A portal to a new world of collaboration -Legora

Alex Fortescue-Webb, head of UK and Ireland and global head of legal engineering at Legora, speaks to Briefing editor Andreea Dulgheru about how AI-powered platforms like Legora Portal can deliver the collaboration piece and greater value clients are demanding, and open new business avenues for law firms. For years, law firms have been embedding and […]

Helm 360 Podcast: Elite CEO Mark Dorman on the strategy behind modern legal transformation

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 […]

Intapp: Law firms face a competitive shift—some have a strategy

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 […]

Harbor: The vendor blind spot: five risks firms think they’re managing — but aren’t

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 […]

CMS and Clarilis: faster, more consistent drafting for the CMS Scottish real estate team

CMS and Clarilis: faster, more consistent drafting for the CMS Scottish real estate team Kirsten Partridge is a Partner in the Real Estate team at CMS and the firm’s representative on the Property Standardisation Group (PSG), the body that produces and maintains the industry-standard documentation for Scottish commercial property transactions. Her team were looking for […]