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BigHand announces transition to Microsoft Fabric for business intelligence
The move gives law firms a new answer to the build-vs-buy debate by combining purpose-built legal financial intelligence with the flexibility of their own Microsoft data environment.
How to make AI a genuine productivity gain for lawyers
There is no shortage of AI usage in large law firms. Lawyers are already using it for research, knowledge management, document review, document analysis and drafting.
Is innovation outpacing integration?
While law firms are investing heavily in modern tools, with 64% of legal and compliance leaders reporting that they plan to accelerate investments in legal technology, many are still struggling to translate innovation into meaningful operational progress.
The importance of implementing an AI policy and a checklist of considerations
AI remains the buzzword of the moment. Yet, despite the plethora of commentaries citing the opportunities and threats from the ‘AI revolution’, there is much less advice available on the practicalities of AI implementation.
iManage and Thomson Reuters announce strategic partnership to deliver governed AI-powered legal workflows
Expanded integration brings CoCounsel Legal, HighQ, Noetica and Legal Tracker together with governed iManage knowledge to support connected AI-powered legal work
The Right to be Forgotten: AI, DIY and the real value of professional representation
The Right to be Forgotten requires a careful balancing exercise between an individual’s data protection and privacy rights (including rehabilitation in criminal cases), and the wider public interest in continued access to that information.
Nine in ten compliance professionals lack full confidence they could spot a sanctioned individual hiding behind a shell company
New poll of legal, compliance and financial services professionals also finds almost six in ten organisations have not recently tested whether their sanctions escalation process would work under pressure
Cardium Law selects iManage to strengthen document management and support future AI innovation
High-tech specialist litigation firm adopts iManage as its single source of truth for client and matter information
The new fraud offence that makes partners personally liable for client money
The ‘failure to prevent fraud’ offence under the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 has been in force since 1 September 2025, creating personal and corporate liability for firms that can’t show ‘reasonable procedures’ to prevent fraud, including misappropriation of client money.
Practice area growth for small law firms in the UK
The headline from this year’s Bellwether report is reassuring: 62% of small and mid-sized firms have grown over the past three to four years, client satisfaction is at 84%, and confidence across the sector is broadly positive.
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The new metrics for success in conveyancing
While technology has made much of the conveyancing process faster, there remains a practical limit to how many matters anyone can manage while still keeping standards intact.
The UK legal market is polarising – and the middle is disappearing
Consolidation and the boutique boom are not contradictory. They are the same market stretching apart at both ends – and it changes what your firm is worth, and to whom.
Conveyancing’s consistency problem is about pressure, not skills
When I qualified, a conveyancer had perhaps 10 or 12 plates to keep spinning. Today’s conveyancers have 20 or 30, and almost none of the room for error I had starting out.
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