Ploum initiates move to the Cloud with NetDocuments

The dynamic firm started its search for a document management system way back in 2014. Today everybody at Ploum uses NetDocuments whether a fee earner or a finance, marketing or HR professional. Challenge: The Need for Change Ploum wanted to make its document management more efficient, easier and flexible, recognising the importance of finding a […]

Over to the Cloud: Going beyond a DMS implementation

Where We Were Winckworth Sherwood (WS) was using a Microsoft SharePoint 2013 based solution as its Document Management System (DMS). The SharePoint-based system Macroview was first implemented in 2010. Following an IT review in 2015, WS decided that the current platform was no longer meeting the needs of a growing business and not the solution […]

Quill’s costs, functionality and longevity win over Burt Brill & Cardens

Burt Brill & Cardens Limited is the latest law firm to sign up to Quill’s Interactive legal accounting software. With a rigid timeframe for implementation, dictated by the end-of-contract date for its legacy legal accounts system, the practice went live in April 2019. Ross Auld, Chief Operating Officer at Burt Brill & Cardens, describes the […]

Russell & Co complies to Making Tax Digital reform with help from Quill

With Making Tax Digital (MTD) for VAT now mandatory for businesses with an annual taxable turnover of £85,000, Russell & Co Solicitors, a long-established law firm based in Great Malvern, is ready to process its next VAT submission according to HMRC’s MTD scheme thanks to its outsourced cashiering and software provider, Quill. Brian Herdman, Practice […]

Saul Ewing’s iManage cloud database consolidation a successful industry first

  Innovative team uses SeeUnity’s Velocity content migration tool to accomplish a groundbreaking project   Industries challenges With a client-centric commitment to excellence in mind, Saul Ewing LLP merged with Arnstein & Lehr LLP in September of 2017, providing their clients with expanded capabilities and greater depth in key practice areas. The merger happened to […]

Parkview Solicitors enhances case management and drives productivity with Insight Legal software

Parkview Solicitors is the employer to an expanding team split across its two sites in the North of England. The practice needed a user-friendly and centralised system designed to improve file organisation for its 16 members of staff and help them to manage caseloads and accounts easily and effectively through an on-premise platform. Aslam Khan, […]

Top of the clocks

As some wise person once said, necessity is often the mother of invention. Stephen Allen, global head of legal operations and innovation lead at Hogan Lovells, explains that Clocktimizer, which his firm has been using to wrangle and enrich its data stores, was created by a former corporate lawyer at DLA Piper, who found himself […]

Quill’s overflow typing support for Robert Simmons Solicitors

With a flourishing conveyancing department and administration team at full capacity, long-standing Quill client, Robert Simmons Solicitors, utilises the Quill Type outsourced typing service for overflow support. “Conveyancing is our busiest area,” explains Stuart Jones, conveyancer at Robert Simmons. “As anyone who operates in this field knows, there are seasonal fluctuations causing peaks and troughs […]

Quill Payroll provides long-term fix to cashier problem at MPP Solicitors

When MPP Solicitors first became a Quill client, for legal accounts software only initially, the practice employed its own cashier. Responsible mainly for managing its accounts on Quill’s software, another facet of its cashier’s role was processing the firm’s payroll. The internal structure changed when its cashier retired, as explained by Allan Hunt, Senior Partner […]

How an ISO 27001 certified law firm manages the risk of data breaches

  In 2016 ByrneWallace became the first large firm in Ireland to have ISO 27001 certification. Firms with ISO 27001 certification must have a totally comprehensive system of security measures that extend beyond just IT. Now, of course, the firm has to ensure it complies with the GDPR as well as. Part of ByrneWallace’s security […]