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The Big 4 accountancy firms have continued their advance into legal services, but are they likely to supplant traditional law firms? Do they want to? Unpicking their aims and strategies, this report asks what makes the Big 4 different and what traditional law firms can do about it.

Today we’re releasing our report “The ‘I’ Word” which gives an insight into people’s expectations around leaving and receiving inheritances and their knowledge of the processes involved.

The legal world loves a timesheet. Whether it’s recording your time on a law firm’s legal time recording software, or logging your hours with Flex Legal when you’re on a paralegal placement, accurately measuring the time you have worked is important!

Legal software solutions are designed around features and functionality that benefit a firm. Fee earners are tasked with driving long term efficiencies, increasing billable hours and onboarding new clients, all to increase profitability for the firm. Therefore, legal tech aims to reduce manual admin, increase productivity, and introduce automations to help users maximise their time.

With the typical office worker consuming an average of 10,000 sheets of paper annually and the costs of using paper runs up to 31 times the price of purchasing it in the first place, Quill has published a new eBook to help law firms reduce their reliance on paper and operate in a smarter, more digital world.

Hudgell Solicitors is pushing ahead with the expansion of its clinical negligence team and recruiting ‘at all levels’ as it looks to build on a year of success and widespread acclaim.

The LEAP Best Practice Standard for conveyancers was set-up four years ago as an accreditation mark of excellence achieved by law firms using LEAP’s innovative technology. Through its use of independent, remote and specialist audits, achievement of the standard shows clients and stakeholders that law firms deliver a gold standard of legal work in conveyancing whilst using the most up to date and innovative legal technology.

CTS, the legal sector’s provider of cloud and IT services specifically shaped for law, and Tessian, the market leader in advanced email security, have come together in a newly formed partnership. The aim of this partnership is to offer significant value to the legal sector by providing advanced email security that has the ability to continually analyse, adapt and evolve based on an understanding of normal and anomalous human behaviour.

New rules making it easier for commercial buildings to be converted into residential homes have come in to force this month. As part of government plans designed to revitalise the UK’s beleaguered high streets, it’s now possible to transform an unused commercial building such as a former shop or café into a home without going through a lengthy planning application process first.

iManage, the company dedicated to Making Knowledge WorkTM, today announced strong growth in the company’s cloud services business. Organisations modernising their IT infrastructures and systems to support new needs of knowledge workers and the evolving demands of clients have adopted iManage Cloud to drive increased business agility, knowledge worker productivity, and enhanced security and governance over critical business information.