Legal Workflow

19/11/2022

We have today quit Twittter. Concern about the new leader’s dictatorial edicts was bad enough but to read that so far 60% of the remaining employees are in favour of reinstating Donald Trump’s account, that same lying, odious, seditious, dangerous being, who abuses free speech, was too much to swallow. This is not an organisation that we wish to be associated with.

25/10/2021

Is your IT supporting your workers – your Partners, your fee-earners, your support staff?
Last month we discussed supporting you workers in a flexible office. This month, let’s turn our attention to your IT systems.

Is your IT supporting your workers – your Partners, your fee-earners, your support staff?

Ask yourself “Did IT enable our practitioners and support staff to work from home during the Covid-19 pandemic?”. Or did it put even more pressure on both your infrastructure and your staff? Is it fit for purpose now and into the future?

In the legal sector – particularly in the small-medium sized firms – there hasn’t previously been the drive to invest and modernise IT.

The Covid-19 pandemic has been, in some firms, the catalyst for the reality of home working. In other firms it’s been the Achilles heel.

-How much simpler and more productive – and therefore cost-efficient – it is for firms with case and practice management systems?
-How much easier it is to work with customised workflows?
-How much less disruptive is it when integrations and online systems enable workers to access what they need remotely.

In all cases, firms need to deliver efficient, consistent and secure network access for all employees, regardless of whether they are working from home or in the office. *Gartner calls it the “Everywhere Enterprise”.

Read the full post here: https://www.legalworkflow.com/supporting-your-workers/

21/09/2021

Hybrid working? Remote working? Hybrid workplace?

There’s a growing amount of discussion around “Hybrid working”, “Remote Working” and “Hybrid Workplace” at the moment.

What does it mean, what actually is a hybrid workplace?

In a nutshell, it’s the provision of flexible shared working/meeting space alongside provision of digital support to home offices – for a flexible workforce. When your workers need to, they work in the office – perhaps as a team or with clients for a project or meeting.
But when they don’t need to, they work from a supported home office.

Is your existing remote working strategy fit for a hybrid workforce?

In other words, for both when in the office and when working from a home office? Certainly it isn’t if you consider giving them a laptop and a mobile phone is a remote working strategy.

Perhaps it would be better if one of your firm’s goals was to achieve the “highest levels of productivity and engagement”, rather than “the highest levels of staff in the office between 9am and 5pm”.

Read the full post: https://www.legalworkflow.com/hybrid-working-remote-working-hybrid-workplace/

20/07/2021

Artificial intelligence - EU Commission publishes proposed regulations

"It's laudable and right that we should try to regulate those who provide AI services, but we need to be aware that ultimately (no one can say when) AI itself will become ungovernable."

https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=5262af17-116f-47ab-aeca-6d16b8a1fe6b

30/06/2021

Lawyers and law firms. A service or a hybrid workplace?
Did the first national lockdown on 23rd March 2020 prove to be the tipping point in the way legal services are delivered and consumed?

Lawyers and the wider legal professional adapted extremely well to the challenge, they had to. The provision of professional legal services was in huge demand as government, businesses, individuals and society in general grappled with the legal ramifications of the seismic change in our “ordinary” way of life.

Lawyers found new and efficient ways to communicate with clients, colleagues, partners and other professionals. Video conferencing from home offices, remote hearings, mediation via Zoom, Microsoft Teams or Cisco Webex, VPN connection to the main office.

Legal professionals became more proficient at working from remote locations. IT infrastructure provided “safe bubbles” for lawyers and professional support teams to work in different ways and clients embraced these changes.

Many law firms continued to provide first class services to their clients throughout the pandemic supported by innovative use of technology and remote working, notwithstanding reduction in staff levels, meetings and travel times.

So where do we go from here?
After staff, the biggest fixed overhead for many firms is the cost of the building or lease.

Could a hybrid workplace – which provides a flexible workspace and digital support to home offices – be the answer?

Teams can work together in the same space and at the same time, when they need to or when they meet clients or attend hearings. When they don’t need to, they can work from their digital home office.

When you’re considering your workplace and workforce strategy, take a look at New Wave Workspace, the platform that enables the Hybrid Workplace | Digital Office. https://www.legalworkflow.com/download/legal-workflow-hybrid-workplace-brochure

18/05/2021

Welcome to the Hybrid Workplace & Digital Office – Insights White Paper

The Future has Arrived
A brand new world is emerging after the pandemic: working from home became not only viable but a desirable alternative for employees around the planet. At the same time, drawbacks related to people's mental health have been identified everywhere. In this unprecedented scenario, the description "Hybrid Workplace + Digital Office" had quickly become the most complete solution for reducing real estate costs and keeping employees safe, productive and, most of all, happy.
Read more and download the white paper: https://www.legalworkflow.com/welcome-to-the-hybrid-workplace-digital-office-insights-white-paper

05/03/2021

How do you ensure that everyone in your firm is keeping to your brand guidelines in all their documents, day in day out? How do you save valuable time in formatting documents when Microsoft Word thinks it knows best? Is there a way to provide easy access to all the practice's corporate information, and roll out any changes with just one central amendment?

The answer is Legal Doc Pro, a collection of tools for Microsoft Word that allows everyone to create professional, client ready documents in seconds, tailored perfectly to your brand image.

https://www.legalworkflow.com/consistent-branding-docs

01/03/2021

Law South Group Webinar – “Hybrid Working”, 18 February 2021
Legal Workflow, in collaboration with the workplace management platform vendor New Wave Workspace were delighted to provide a lively and well attended webinar on Hybrid Working through the Law South Group

We’d like to thank all of the firms in the Law South group for giving us the opportunity to engage with them. A thank you as well to the attendees, so many great questions asked! We look forward to working with you and to sharing more as we head unerringly to hybrid working for yourselves and so many other people.

More: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6772095922844246016

23/02/2021

Where's Norman?

New Wave Workspace People Finder - as more and more businesses open up, a great addition to a fabulous solution...

New Wave Workspace is a user-friendly, touchless Software as a Service management platform. It enables you to get back to office working – safely and efficiently. New Wave Workspace is the digital twin to your physical workspace so you can effortlessly undertake intelligent scheduling, social distancing, contact tracing, service reporting, cleaning on demand, conferences and meetings, analytics and insights, and now People Finder.

Available to legal firms and UK businesses from Legal Workflow. Find out more: https://www.legalworkflow.com/new-wave-workspace/

Watch the video: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/legal-workflow-limited_newwaveworkspace-powerbidesktop-activity-6769922031568879616-Mc_5

11/01/2021

Claremont signs as a Reseller of New Wave Workspace
New Wave Workspace, a platform that allows companies to transition to the New Normal. Legal Workflow is UK Distributor and globally to the legal market of New Wave Workspace, which enables social distancing, intelligent scheduling, cleaning on-demand, contact tracing and analytics. We are pleased to announce that Claremont has agreed to add New Wave Workspace to its considerable toolkit of workplace solutions.

Founded in 1997, Claremont are a leading provider of commercial interior consultancy, design, fit-out, furniture and technology. Their mission is to change how people think, feel and act in their workplace for the better, to provide a truly FutureFlexible Destination office environment.

Commenting on the agreement, Martin Langan, said “Claremont is a perfect partner for New Wave Workspace and we are delighted to be working with them as a reseller. Their innovative and passionate approach to workspace consultancy matches the class leading New Wave Workspace solution to help firms transition to the New Normal.”

Read in full: https://www.legalworkflow.com/claremont-signs-as-a-reseller-of-new-wave-apps/

For further information, please email [email protected]

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11/12/2020

Last year at this time, we took a look at what the experts had to say about 2020. However, 2020 has been such a difficult year for everyone, many of those predictions have gone out the window. What we have seen though is that whereas a lot of firms have struggled with the restrictions placed upon them during the Covid-19 pandemic, others have continued to go from strength to strength. Here we consider what some have been doing that makes the difference between surviving and thriving... Read more:
https://www.legalworkflow.com/seasons-greetings-from-legal-workflow/

30/11/2020

Law firms must ensure compliance with Covid-19 regulations in the workplace

As we move from lockdown into regional Covid tiers in England, how is your Law Firm going to ensure compliance with Covid-19 regulations in the workplace?

Law Society Guidelines

The Law Society rules are quite clear. From social distancing in the workplace, through implementing sufficient measures to improve control of workplace risk, to meetings in tier 2 and tier 3 areas.
From a practical perspective, how will your Firm mitigate Covid-19 risk and - if called upon by the Health and Safety Executive or local authorities - demonstrate compliance?

"Failure to comply is a criminal offence, which can lead to fines or imprisonment for up to two years. This means the COVID-19 secure guidelines can be legally enforced indirectly, through improvement and prohibition notices."

Find out how we can help: https://www.legalworkflow.com/ensuring-compliance-with-covid-19-regulations-in-the-workplace/