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 […]

LEAP is celebrating 10,000 UK users of its cloud-based practice management solution. Since the first law firm signed up to the software in November 2014 more than 1,700 law firms have adopted it and benefitted from LEAP’s innovative features, efficiency tools and world class customer service. Since January 2017 user numbers of LEAP have doubled […]

We talk often about how our products enable secure collaboration, access, and information governance behind the scenes. This past week, an article about how Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP uses HighQ for client collaboration was a perfect example of this. In the article, Robert Garmaise, CIO at Fasken, mentions that they can push HighQ content back […]

This is the final article in a three-part series of blog posts designed to help corporate law departments take their operations up a notch. In Part One, we provided an overview of maturity models for six of the twelve CLOC Core Competencies that we reviewed with participants in HBR’s educational program at the 2018 CLOC Institute. […]

Whether you’re looking for a case management solution right now or acquired one many years ago, you’ll want it to deliver on its potential to support your own business processes. When it does, the benefits to your management team and lawyers alike are mind-blowing. But case management systems out-of-the-box are a vanilla offering; it’s the […]

Earlier this year DPS Software ran a competition to win a Spitfire Experience at The Imperial War Museum in Duxford. The experience included flying ‘wing to wing’ with a Spitfire in a 1940’s de Havilland Dragon Rapide, entry to the Imperial War Museum and a souvenir photograph alongside the Spitfire. The lucky winner was Charlotte […]

Nine proposal pros walked away with the award of best pitch team at the Briefing 5P conference on 26 June 2018: Nicole Beck, director, client value and strategy, Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC Kristel van den Elzen, marketing and business development manager, DLA Piper UK Chris Hanley, pricing and project accountant, Pinsent Masons Paul Hollingworth, […]

Three legal technology companies have recently joined the LSSA. They are BaseNet, Coyote Analytics and inCase. BaseNet is a cloud-based integrated practice management and legal office system targeting high street practices to large law firms. Headquartered in Amsterdam, BaseNet is the market leader in the Netherlands and will soon launch in the UK. Coyote Analytics is the […]

Taking advantage of the freedom the cloud affords is fast becoming the first choice for positive digital disruption, and many British legal firms have dared to reimagine their business and .realise the benefits the cloud can bring. One major advantage is that it can significantly reduce the amount of paperwork whether in chambers, in the […]

Thursday 14th June 2018 didn’t just mark the close of another successful CIPD HR Software Show – it also signalled the end of an era. We enjoyed the final HRSS as we know it, ahead of the expo changing to become the Festival of Work event at Olympia London next year. But before we look […]