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LEAP Enterprise: The unified cloud platform for ambitious law firms that demand scale, control, and compliance
The legal profession is growing more complex, and the tools many firms rely on are struggling to keep pace. This is felt particularly strongly by mid-sized and large firms, where scale brings demands that software designed for smaller practices was never built to meet.
What AI means for how we develop the next generation of lawyers
Recent LexisNexis research found that 65% of lawyers are now using paid legal AI tools, with many saying it helps them work faster.
Latest podcast reveals how law firms can turn client feedback into competitive advantage
Amy Bruce of Osprey Approach speaks with Graham Archbold of Chorus Insight about how SME law firms can build effective client feedback programmes that strengthen client retention, support growth, and drive meaningful business improvements.
DR Solicitors strengthens primary care expertise with appointment of Legal Director
DR Solicitors, a specialist healthcare law firm that’s part of DSW Legal, has strengthened its primary care team with the appointment of Sarah Cook as Legal Director.
AI in clinical negligence and personal injury claims – Where can it help?
For claimant personal injury and clinical negligence solicitors, the potential benefits of AI are easy to understand. Claims often involve large volumes of medical records, correspondence, expert evidence and disclosure documents.
Why law firms need to focus on technology to improve their client experience
Technology is playing an increasingly important role in shaping how clients experience legal services, with law firms placing greater focus on creating journeys that feel faster, clearer, and easier to navigate from the very beginning.
Express Solicitors keeps driving forwards with acquisition of Recovery Assist
The purchase of the Bury-based law firm is the third deal of the year for Express
What happens when the ID photo isn’t real?
The SRA’s most recent AML report highlights a threat that only a few years ago would have seemed totally farfetched. But who among us now hasn’t heard of the looming spectre of deepfake identity fraud.
Qanooni AI: Legal AI vendors must prove how they prevent hallucinated citations
Legal AI suppliers are facing growing pressure from law firms to demonstrate how their systems reduce the risk of hallucinated case law, fabricated citations and unsupported legal analysis.
The Government’s home buying roadmap is ambitious: The technology to deliver it already exists
The Government’s roadmap is a genuine attempt to fix the structural problems that cause those moments. For firms that have already invested in digital conveyancing, it reads less like a disruption and more like confirmation of the direction you’ve been building toward.
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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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