Back in 2011, Robert Bourns, senior partner at TLT spoke openly about the importance of properly rewarding and promoting law support staff through renumeration schemes. In a piece written for the Law Gazette, Bourns penned… “Salary structures can be developed to ensure that support staff are incentivised in a way that is similar to the […]

You may have heard recently about the case of Brabners LLP v HMRC where the tribunal judge held that electronic property search fees could not be labelled disbursements for VAT purposes, leaving Brabners with a hefty £68,000 VAT bill and law firm accounting departments across the country with sweaty palms. So where does the decision […]

Information governance means different things to different people. Recently, when leading industry organization IGI (Information Governance Initiative) asked its community members to help it define the term, respondents agreed that there are a wide range of activities that fall under the umbrella of IG.  All the big activities are covered, including business intelligence and big […]

It’s Mental Health Awareness Week this May (14th – 20th), and to mark it, we’ve put together an exclusive survey, examining the effect of stress in the workplace. With the busy pace of modern life, and pressurised situations now part and parcel of most working environments, stress can actually help to keep us motivated. However, […]

Our reputation within the legal sector proved vital in securing a new Managed IT services contract with Fishers Solicitors, as we support the firm with its efforts to optimise existing IT systems and infrastructure. Fishers operates from offices in Ashby de la Zouch and Tamworth, boasting one of the UK’s most experienced team of lawyers, […]

Post-Completion services have launched on tmconvey. Designed to diminish the chance of manual error, this latest addition to tmgroup’s growing services helps conveyancers rise to the increasing pressure to submit their SDLT and AP1 forms more efficiently.  Prepopulated fields make it quick and easy to submit SDLT and AP1 forms By being fully integrated with […]

BigHand has been named by Great Place to Work® as one of the UK’s Best Workplaces™ in the Medium category (organisations with 50-499 employees) in their annual Best Workplaces™ ranking, for a second year running. The ranking criteria, which is one of the most thorough available, uniquely comprises of both an in-depth Employee Trust Survey and an […]

iManage, the company dedicated to transforming how professionals work, today announced that DAC Beachcroft LLP – a leading international law firm with nearly 2300 employees around the globe – has selected iManage Cloud to deploy iManage Work to its Latin America offices. Headquartered in London, UK, DAC Beachcroft was drawn to iManage Cloud by the speed and agility it […]

Starting May 25, 2018, organisations that collect and store data on citizens in European Union (EU) countries must begin complying with strict new rules around protecting customer data. The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) applies to all organisations – regardless of their location – if they’re processing or storing personal data of EU data subjects. […]

Most law firms accept the need for improving the use of management information (MI) and analytics. In fact, 59% of respondents to PwC’s Law Firms’ Survey 2017 stated that they were using, or planning to use, data and analytics in their business support functions. (Source: PwC’s Law Firms’ Survey 2017). As these law firms have identified, […]

The deadline for gender pay gap reporting has now kicked in, but so far only two-thirds of qualifying firms have published their data. More than 6,000 companies have yet to disclose the average difference between pay for their male and female employees, despite the government warning that non-compliance with the new reporting regulations will result […]

Leading London based law firm Collyer Bristow LLP have selected Hubshare from Nikec Solutions to enhance client collaboration. With a team of experienced lawyers that provide a comprehensive range of services to clients in the UK and internationally, Collyer Bristow had a requirement to share volumes of sensitive documents with their clients and 3rd parties […]

iManage, the company dedicated to transforming how professionals work, today announced that legal departments, already the company’s fastest growing market, grew 25 percent faster in 2017 than just the previous 12 months. Over the past several years, iManage has been enhancing its products to meet the changing and evolving needs of modern legal departments. iManage’s […]