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. Continue reading “Legal technology sponsored briefing: RPA in legal – be cynical of the hype and do not get left behind”
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.
Transactional and advisory practice areas have been content with a solid IT platform, thin laptops, smartphones, a strong document management system and a client portal. Litigation adds ‘discovery’ to this if they transact large matters, but in the main, this status quo has been maintained for many years. Today and in the future, all practice groups will be knocking on IT’s door demanding legal tech in order to compete in the age of digital legal services. Continue reading “Legal technology sponsored briefing: Legal IT – standing still is not an option”
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 by the rate of change. What steps are the successful digital firms (SDFs) of tomorrow taking? Continue reading “Legal technology sponsored briefing: Successful law firms in the digital age”
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 of soldiers he had lost in the Battle of Asculum, but today he could just as easily have been referring to the high cost of litigation, or the pitfalls of winning the legal battle inside the courtroom at the expense of losing the communications war outside it. Continue reading “Sponsored briefing: An asymmetric approach to litigation PR”
Business transactions regularly require a careful analysis from a competition law point of view. We at Prager Dreifuss have excellent expertise in advising and representing companies – small and large, local and global – as well as public entities in all aspects of competition law. With profound knowledge of Swiss and EU competition law, we regularly advise clients before the Swiss competition authorities, and frequently collaborate with foreign law firms in multi-jurisdictional cartel and merger proceedings, be it as team members or co-ordinators of international teams. Public procurement and state aid law also belong to our preferred areas of practice. Continue reading “Practice Area Spotlight: Competition and regulatory – leading experts and high-profile cases”
PalisadeSECURE’s Luke Drewer discusses the increased threat of cyber attacks and how law firms should be protecting themselves
There is a new weapon of war being deployed around the world. You cannot see it, but the evidence is all around us. In response to the recent US, UK and French strikes targeting President Bashar Assad’s chemical weapons in Syria, it is thought that Russia will launch a ‘dirty cyber war’ and Britain is getting prepared. Continue reading “Legal tech sponsored briefing: How to prepare for a dirty cyber war”
In the wake of several high-profile attacks on law firms, Kaspersky Lab’s principle security researcher David Emm describes key ways firms can combat cyber crime
Cyber attacks are consistently making the news, with high-profile stories like NotPetya, WannaCry and Shadow Brokers seemingly taking place on a monthly basis. Businesses of all shapes and sizes are increasingly concerned about the impact that cyber crime may have on them. For law firms, the threat is particularly apparent and they are targeted for two key reasons. Continue reading “Legal tech sponsored briefing: Law firms targeted by cyber criminals – six fundamental steps to being secure”
Speech is more than just another channel of communication. It is also the driving force to improve your firm’s productivity
From the technology perspective, speech recognition has a long history with several waves of major innovations. Most recently, the field has benefited from advances in deep learning and big data. The advances are evidenced not only by the surge of academic papers published in the field but more importantly by the worldwide industry adoption of a variety of deep learning methods in designing and deploying speech-recognition systems. Continue reading “Legal tech sponsored briefing: Voice your way ahead of competitors”
With GDPR now the new reality, Andrew Elcock from Xynomix explores how to encrypt and secure your data
In 2017, we saw vulnerabilities such as WannaCry exploit millions of devices worldwide, gaining access to valuable personal information. With many organisations now holding several hundreds of terabytes of customer data, the digital world has never been so heavily scrutinised. Continue reading “Legal tech sponsored briefing: GDPR – achieving business transparency in a changing world”
Andrew Whiteley explains how Lexacom’s latest innovations in speech recognition can provide solutions to law firms
Lexacom is an advanced digital-dictation and document-creation system designed to help your organisation work smarter. Continue reading “Legal tech sponsored briefing: Turning words into action”
