Download your FREE copy now   This month:LPM magazine discusses culture, and what makes law firms who they are. Special supplement:Data works – Our friends at Quiss celebrate 30 years of technology by exploring how firms are leveraging their own IT and data. Feature:Guest writer Lucy Trevelyan investigates how a law firm’s culture is born.  LPM asks: Vidisha Joshi, managing […]

Following the publication of Cascade’s Stress Report 2018, our HR Business Partner Emily Cryan was approached by Elite Franchise magazine to answer a number of questions about wellbeing in the workplace. You can read her thoughts in full, here… Why should employers be mindful of their employees’ mental health? There is so much to say […]

BigHand announce the launch of their 13th Annual User Conference, taking place in London on the 4th of October, 2018. We’re excited to announce the return of the BigHand User Conference to London on 4th October. This year is an especially exciting year as we welcome a host of new BigHand clients, all of whom […]

Award winning law firm, Hunt & Coombs, offer a range of comprehensive legal services to Peterborough and the surrounding region. With four offices and over 100 staff, the firm recently set about a review of their internal processes with the aim of driving increased efficiencies. As part of this review, BigHand Digital Dictation was selected […]

Most solicitors will accept an early renewal offer for professional indemnity (PI) insurance if given the opportunity, rather than go to the open market to find a new policy, according to a survey conducted by Miller of law firms. An overwhelming 98% of respondents said they were likely to take up a PI insurance renewal deal […]

When law firms first started to promote themselves online their websites were little more than brochures. “This is who we are, this is where to find us and you can phone or email us for more information.”  Many firms have now developed a much more interactive experience for clients and potential clients, but for others […]

Brand new research from business continuity and disaster recovery firm, Databarracks, has revealed organisational confidence in IT backup capabilities has risen dramatically over the past decade. Over 50 per cent of organisations feel ‘very confident’ in the state of their backup solutions, which is up from 33 per cent in 2008. First released 10 years ago, […]

Video time: 0 mins 44 seconds. Databarracks win The Barclays Developing Resilience Award 2018, for the way they have developed free-to-use online tools and a popular podcast to help small and medium-sized companies engage in, understand and implement IT resilience.

Business continuity and disaster recovery provider, Databarracks has been named winner of the Barclays Developing Resilience Award at the Business in the Community’s 2018 Annual Responsible Business Gala in London, attended by nearly 1000 business leaders and influencers and hosted by Sir Lenny Henry. The event was the culmination of the 2018 Responsible Business Awards, run by Business […]

Hosted by social media commentator and employment lawyer Kevin Poulter (@kevinpoulter), The Hearing provides an unprecedented view into the most interesting people and topics in and around the legal industry. Sometimes serious, sometimes irreverent, but always informative, insightful and entertaining. Our third episode features British politician, Lord Michael Howard of Lympne about Brexit, politics, Liverpool Football […]

It’s been about a year and a half since Gartner retired the term “Enterprise Content Management” and replaced it with “Content Services.” We have talked in the past about what Content Services is and why Gartner has shifted their terminology away from ECM. If you are unfamiliar with the subject you can read about it here. […]

Technology isn’t replacing people in laws firms, but it is changing the roles people fulfill within those firms. That’s Eric-Jan van Alten’s observation, who has spent the better part of 20 years working with law firms from around the globe. While he’s a native of the Netherlands, he previously spent several years with us in Atlanta […]

Almost three-quarters of lawyers in small firms report clash between client-driven market and traditional role of solicitor, yet over two thirds failing to adapt or evolve business strategy. A new survey published (The Bellwether Report 2018: The Culture Clash – Solicitor Confidence vs Client Power) by LexisNexis UK, a leading global provider of information and […]