Mike Giles
Finance director,
Fieldfisher
Fieldfisher
Feature:
Take on the system
Take on the system
magazines|March 2019Do law firms have a new breed of business technology within their grasp?
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INSIDE
Innovation game
Tony Williams at Jomati talks about the pace of change and assesses the latest addition to the law firm C-suite
Knowing better
A new strategic chapter begins with Hogan Lovells' global knowledge team
Consult with care
Catherine Allen at Bevan Brittan looks at contractors and putting lawyers on the risk register
WHO'S WHO THIS MONTH
Rod Harrington
Chief operating officer EMEA,
Norton Rose Fulbright
Norton Rose Fulbright
Feature:
Take on the system
Katja Ullrich-North
Global head of knowledge,
Hogan Lovells
Hogan Lovells
Team profile:
Hogan Lovells knowledge management
Stephen James
CEO and founder,
SAGlobal
SAGlobal
Industry views:
Interview
Whit McIsaac
CEO Americas,
SAGlobal
SAGlobal
Industry views:
Interview
Tony Williams
Principal,
Jomati Consultants
Jomati Consultants
Opinion:
Offices of innovation
Clare Quinn-Waters
Business development columnist
Opinion:
Doing disruption
ISSUE IN BRIEF
By the time this issue has launched, Briefing will have held its first big conference of the year, Strategic Leaders 2019 (hey, perhaps we’ll have been delighted to have seen you there).
On our packed agenda we had what now seems a very timely focus indeed on whether law firms should give serious thought to the business of listing. With DWF finally confirming the details of its float, being valued at £366m, will this be the firm to turn a trickle into a torrent of transformation?
One pretty good rationale for raising all of that lovely cash in a law firm is, of course, to invest in further operational change – ideally for the better. Our annual Legal IT landscapes report, for example, has long highlighted a fairly meagre reported average IT spend as a percentage of revenue. And that’s in spite of a legal tech marketplace that seems to declare a new use for machine-learning or analytics software on every corner.
TAKE ON THE SYSTEM
As law firms disperse, diversify and innovate at the front end, what do they most need at their core? Richard Brent investigates whether law firms have the technology in their hands to challenge the usual way of doing things, and asks if competition is finally growing for traditional legal tech.
KNOWS GLOBAL
The Hogan Lovells heads of knowledge management all met in person for the first time in 2018. Richard Brent hears a little of what was on the agenda, how their work has matured, and why the practice of international KM can never be one-size-fits-all.
THE POWER OF ONE
Stephen James, CEO and founder, and Whit McIsaac, CEO Americas, SAGlobal, discuss the opportunity for firms to take advantage of cloud-based enterprise resource planning and client relationship management, and why their professional service-focused business is the perfect fit for LexisOne, formerly owned by LexisNexis.
