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This has been a transformative decade for the legal industry – and for HBR Consulting, as well. At the outset of the current decade, the legal industry was beginning to emerge from a recession. The decade saw a growing focus on value in legal service delivery, the rise of legal operations as a discipline, an abundant array of new technologies to help law departments and law firms better manage the business of law, and an evolving alignment with the voice of the client culminating in leading legal organizations’ desire to collaborate and co-innovate.

For law firms struggling to enable remote working without cloud-based software, this free software can help them through the COVID-19 crisis

Stress seems to come with the territory of going to work and earning a living. Sometimes a little short-term stress can be a good thing because it helps people achieve a goal, meet a deadline or find the courage to try something new. But when stress becomes a regular feature of our lives and starts to impact our physical and mental health, it quickly becomes problematic.

Legal aid firms often face the dilemma of increasing their workforce or having to exhaust the firm’s resources, all in the name of getting the job done, which then takes a toll on their already cut budget. Now, it is more important than ever to evaluate the sector and look for ways to adapt with the changing environment and maintain the high level of service given to clients without increasing costs for the firm.

In 2019 we asked our dedicated team of volunteer reviewers to revisit and review the LTC4 Learning Plans to ensure that they still meet the requirements of law firms, corporate legal departments and law schools in 2020.

The leader in Legal Technology for the UK and ROI has today announced that it will provide free migration to the cloud for Law Firms that currently utilise its software in an on premise deployment.