Scott Littlehales of Littlefish on the importance for law firms of investing in automation Picture the theatre of high-profile legal cases that feature in the mainstream media and on television dramas, and you can see why law remains an attractive profession.
Legal IT is going through a period of unprecedented change and CIOs need to be leading from the front. Peter Owen of The Intuity Alliance/Lights-On explains Since the 1990s, IT in legal has been relatively steady and split between volume and traditional legal services, with volume areas consuming most of the technology and time. …
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Derek Southall of The Intuity Alliance/Hyperscale Group assesses how successful law firms are adapting to the new digital reality More has happened in legal tech in the last three years than in the 20 that went before. It is now a $15.9bn market with only 20% market penetration. Many law firms are shell shocked …
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Chris Bull of The Intuity Alliance/Kingsmead Square considers the structure, funding and skills needed for a legal service business in the digital age Note I am talking about ‘legal service business’, not ‘law firm’. ‘Law firm’ suggests a partnership – too outdated and narrow a term in an era when very few new partnerships …
Stone Group’s Paul Flack explains how to reduce maintenance costs without sacrificing support quality How much are you spending to support all the equipment in your company? Depending on your company size, IT hardware support costs can potentially consume up to two-thirds of the IT budget. So how can you drastically reduce the costs …
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Andrew Stanton of Palisade Secure outlines the steps law firms should be taking to reduce threats According to a 2017 PwC law firm survey, 60% of law firms reported an information security incident in the last year, up from 42% in 2014. The financial and reputational damage of a cyber incident is significant.
Brian Stuart of FTI Consulting details the challenges facing legal teams and how they can be overcome Technology in the legal industry has advanced to such a degree that the global e-discovery landscape today would be unrecognisable to a lawyer from five years ago. New licensing deals offered by the mature software vendors (eg …
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It is no secret speech recognition is a valuable channel to drive efficiency and advance your firm’s performance Artificial intelligence (AI) is changing the way people produce and access information. Speech recognition and the understanding of language by software are key to the future of information management. The voice technology market is changing fast, …
Andrew Pimlott of FTI Consulting discusses the current sanctions landscape A volatile political landscape makes compliance a challenge, especially when malefactors are good at covering the evidence, but advanced analytical techniques can reveal the truth.
Tim Maltin of Maltin PR on the importance of getting the balance right between winning the court case and winning over the public King Pyrrhus of Epirus famously said: ‘If we are victorious in one more battle with the Romans, we shall be utterly ruined.’ He was talking in 279 BC about the large number …
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