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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.

Local lawyers raised nearly £85,000 for local frontline free legal advice charities in the South-East of England at Legal Walks over the summer. This amazing amount has boosted morale for charities who support people facing increasing hardships such as unemployment, homelessness, and domestic violence, on a daily basis.

Following on from implementation of Lawyer 365 in April 2021, Starck Uberoi Solicitors’ clients can now verify their identity and have an end-to-end digital application experience through the integration of online ID verification app Verify 365.

As conveyancers juggle bigger caseloads than ever before, the volume of inbound communications have hit an all time high. Alongside chaser calls from clients requesting an update on their sale or purchase, are those from new clients struggling to complete… Read More