Harneys, a leading international offshore law firm operating across key global financial centers, was mid-way through a complex migration from Elite Enterprise to Elite 3E when the programme came under serious pressure. Managing multiple vendors, consultants, and stakeholders across jurisdictions had created overlapping responsibilities, governance gaps, cost exposure, and stalled progress, all with an immovable […]

In 2026, the law firms that will win are those turning coordinated leadership, connected data, and AI investment into measurable client value and sustainable profitability. Snapshot Law firm profitability now depends on firmwide alignment across operations, finance, technology, and business development rather than incremental efficiency gains. Technology and AI investments must deliver measurable outcomes such as improved […]

After 30 years serving 99% of the Am Law 100, Litera relaunches around one platform, one agent, and one dataset spanning every corner of the firm   Litera, the Legal AI platform provider that best unifies the practice and business of law, unveiled a company relaunch and unified platform vision, positioning itself as the Legal […]

Claude Sonnet 5 now available in Harvey. Sonnet 5 is Anthropic’s latest Sonnet model, building on Sonnet 4.6 with broad gains in legal accuracy and output quality across transactional and litigation work. Sonnet 5 scored 5.8% all-pass on Harvey’s Legal Agent Benchmark (LAB), a strict evaluation that mirrors how multi-step legal work is executed at […]

Learn what analysts are saying you must know The Old Myths Are Dead “Our backups will save us.” “We’ll just rebuild clean infrastructure.” “Prevention is enough.” This analysis exposes why these assumptions fail during real attacks—and how modern ransomware strategies specifically exploit them. This report shows what resilience looks like after those myths collapse. Don’t […]

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 […]