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Eversheds Sutherland appoints first-ever chief transformation officer as BigLaw expands the C-Suite

Eversheds Sutherland appoints first-ever chief transformation officer as BigLaw expands the C-Suite

Eversheds Sutherland has appointed the former director of transformation for insurance giant QBE Insurance as its first-ever chief transformation officer, effective from August 2021. Ronan Hanrahan will lead a centralised project
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ICYMI: First UK Interview with Disco Post-IPO

ICYMI: First UK Interview with Disco Post-IPO

eDiscovery vendor Disco on 21 July floated on the New York Stock Exchange with the trading symbol ‘LAW’ and with a fairly extraordinary market value of over $2bn. Its plans,
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Comment: Is your firm in the driving seat against cyber threats?

Comment: Is your firm in the driving seat against cyber threats?

By Steve Whiter, director of Appurity Not a day seems to go by these days without another report of a ‘hacking’ incident of some sort creating copy in the relevant media.
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University of Oxford/SRA report finds lack of financial capital the biggest barrier to investment in legal tech

University of Oxford/SRA report finds lack of financial capital the biggest barrier to investment in legal tech

A major independent study into innovation in the legal sector has revealed that while the majority of law firms are making increasing use of day-to-day technology, a lack of financial
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Dictalogic wins UK top 200 firm Morrisons as Microsoft injects a further $25k

Dictalogic wins UK top 200 firm Morrisons as Microsoft injects a further $25k

Cloud digital dictation challenge rDictalogic has won UKTop 200 law firm Morrisons Solicitors as a client and received the second tranche of a $55k credit note from Microsoft Azure, on
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Video: Understanding the lawyer brain in order to effect change, with Dr. Larry Richard

Video: Understanding the lawyer brain in order to effect change, with Dr. Larry Richard

If I could encourage you to listen to one person in order to understand how lawyers tick and why change and innovation is hard – plus why the awful “non-lawyer”
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Read the July/August Orange Rag Here!

Read the July/August Orange Rag Here!

Read it here Hi and welcome to the last Orange Rag newsletter before we break for the summer – albeit travel plans are looking a bit thin on the ground
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Disco busts through IPO pricing estimate at $32 a share

Disco busts through IPO pricing estimate at $32 a share

eDiscovery vendor CS Disco, Inc. yesterday (20 July) announced the pricing of its initial public offering of 7,000,000 shares of its common stock at $32.00 per share. When Disco first
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Video: The Insider talks R&D with Clifford Chance’s April Brousseau

Video: The Insider talks R&D with Clifford Chance’s April Brousseau

The director of Clifford Chance’s newly-formed Research and Development Hub, April Brousseau, talks with Caroline Hill on Litera TV about her new role, and how the magic circle firm is centralising its product development and capabilities through
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New research shows major compliance gaps in hybrid working arrangements

New research shows major compliance gaps in hybrid working arrangements

Access Legal has released new research which reveals that the vast majority of law firms plan to work in a hybrid way going forward, but that many compliance essentials are
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Webinar: Microsoft Teams for Legal – How to Best Design Teams and Channels

Webinar: Microsoft Teams for Legal – How to Best Design Teams and Channels

Click here to register your free place Many firms are struggling with how to deploy and structure Microsoft Teams with proper Teams and Channels. Prosperoware has been at the forefront
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ICYMI – Webinar Replay: Work the Same from Anywhere with nQ Zebraworks

ICYMI – Webinar Replay: Work the Same from Anywhere with nQ Zebraworks

Click Here to watch the Webinar Replay We have seen the evolution of working from the office, to working from home, to working from anywhere. But now, nQ Zebraworks says, the
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Major new reports sizes lawtech market opportunity at £22bn

Major new reports sizes lawtech market opportunity at £22bn

The report details the benefits of widespread use of technology and data in law and the role of lawtech in meeting user needs, including reducing regulatory burdens and improving decision-making
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Womble Bond Dickinson says BigHand Pricing leads to better recoveries and margins

Womble Bond Dickinson says BigHand Pricing leads to better recoveries and margins

Womble Bond Dickinson has implemented BigHand Pricing and Profitability to help drive transparency of matter pricing. In the ‘cradle to grave’ matters that the transatlantic firm has managed through the tool,
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Exclusive: Aderant selects new CEO

Exclusive: Aderant selects new CEO

Aderant’s president Chris Cartrett will next year take over as CEO, we can reveal, taking over from Deane Price, who is pursuing other opportunities within Aderant’s parent company Roper Technologies.
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Comment: Could better work allocation be the antidote to law’s hidden mental health crisis?

Comment: Could better work allocation be the antidote to law’s hidden mental health crisis?

By William Dougherty, founder of Capacity A 2019 survey from the Junior Lawyers Division (JLD) provides a troubling window into the wellbeing of junior lawyers in the UK. Some 93% of
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Thomson Reuters unveils Practical Law dynamic tool set including powerful new search feature

Thomson Reuters unveils Practical Law dynamic tool set including powerful new search feature

Thomson Reuters today (12 July) unveils its next generation Practical Law Dynamic Tool Set, which includes five new features including semantic search – a departure for the first time from
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