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During the pandemic, the main focus of the Legal Aid Agency has been to help providers continue legal aid services for clients, identifying new flexible ways of working. The pandemic has created opportunities for these providers to improve their systems by becoming more agile and therefore offer a better service.  

The creaking and antiquated court system is reaching breaking point as a result of the pandemic, but there is another cloud on the horizon in the form of the Civil Liability Act that could make things even worse.

As business owners and leaders in our niche corner of the economy continue to ride the roller coaster of uncertainty that the coronavirus pandemic has presented to us all, I decided to look at the big-picture for some pointers.

The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has recently announced two significant fines after a lengthy review following the data breach incidents at British Airways and Marriott International.

LexisNexis Legal & Professional, a leading global provider of information and analytics, today announced a new collaboration with Index Solutions (Index), whose contact cleaning and monitoring services improve relationship-based business development by combining human and artificial intelligence.

Best-in-class solutions for legal firms – Clio and Arken Professional – are now integrated to provide the busy private client solicitor with even more efficiency gains. Although important beforehand, the pandemic, lockdown and working from home has further increased the need and appetite for cloud-based digital solutions and streamlining of processes.

The first national lockdown period following the Covid-19 pandemic, certainly caught most of the 10,000 UK law firms off guard, particularly around the ability to ‘demobilise’ their workforce to operate remotely. While some transitioning, such as diverting phones, were relatively easy to make, the fact remains that the sector was not fully equipped to deal with remote working practices and the pressures of lockdown.

LexisNexis Enterprise Solutions today unveiled Lexis® Omni, a flexible technology platform that will power optimised legal service delivery for any legal services organisation needing to do more with less. Organisations adopting Lexis® Omni will have access to new tools that will allow them to deploy tailored solutions in familiar Microsoft environments to match their business needs and so benefit from increased business efficiency, productivity gains, customer service excellence and ultimately, enhanced profitability. 

Earlier in the year, Scottish firm MacRoberts closed its offices in response to the COVID-19 global pandemic. Like many firms, it transitioned to remote working virtually overnight.

Time recording software has risen in prominence as an operational tool for lawyers and law firm managers since the COVID-19 outbreak. There are two main reasons for time recording’s manoeuvre into the spotlight; these being the financial difficulties faced by the sector as a whole, and practices’ dispersed workforces dictated by social distancing restrictions. In this article we will demonstrate how time recording software tackles these problems.