The UK is often described as being 5 years behind the US when it comes to following popular trends. This figure is greatly narrowed when referring to internet trends, which can become popular nationally overnight. The same can therefore be said for the adoption of certain trends by UK law
Lawyers’ offices used to be well known for the rows of books on the shelves and the voluminous file cabinets which housed client documents. Since the advent of the digital age, however, many firms have moved much of their paper online in the form of digital documents. While some documents
Wondering how to make your law firm more productive? Less than a year after the release of OS X Lion, Apple has unleashed another update to its desktop OS, this time dubbed Mountain Lion. This iteration continues its predecessor’s trend of incorporating more of the iPad’s features into OS X,
Tesco law – yes we have all heard of the threat to law firms from big companies with massive budgets and business know how but is there a bigger threat being largely overlooked ? The thing about legal services in general for things like wills, conveyancing, employment law and many
International Law firm Hill Dickinson LLP is using a pair of KEMP LoadMaster 2600 appliances at its primary data centre in Liverpool to ensure high availability and resilience for its new Microsoft Exchange 2010 messaging environment. With more than 190 partners and 1,300 staff operating from offices in Liverpool, Manchester,
By Peter Collins, managing director, Retain International For legal firms, especially smaller and mid-tier firms outside of the ‘magic circle’, the importance of improving margins and making the most of existing resources has been brought into sharp focus given the reduced pool of commercial work following the financial crisis. The
A key component of blogging, guest blogging is, as the term suggests, where a blogger writes as a guest on another blogger’s blog. While this may be obvious, it may not be apparent to some why guest blogging can be useful. Here are 5 reasons why you may wish to
With the official LawCloud website having launched very recently and LawCloud itself launching officially on 2 February 2010 at Microsoft’s office in Edinburgh, it is worth a look at a lawyer’s take on the LawCloud product, as featured in the Law Cloud Computing Blog here.
As we come towards the end of recession, the main focus is changing from “how we can weather the storm” to “how we can develop more and more business”. Stephen Moore of CaseCheck discusses
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