Lockup in lockdown

Law firms appear to have managed the move of multiple teams to all-dispersed, all-screen-sharing remote working pretty well – but the challenges the novel coronavirus presents to their models and management certainly don’t end there. In midst of cashflow concerns and profitability pressure, what will any new normal we now begin to see mean for Briefing‘s other staple subjects – technology strategy of course; business development and client relationship management; pricing and project management; and the relatively fledgling innovation agenda?

IS FINANCE FIT FOR A CRISIS?

Firms’ finance functions have implemented much to improve in recent years, improving efficiency and profitability by addressing some long-term challenges. But a global pandemic has forced them to consider new perspectives and accelerate more flexible thinking, hears Josh Adcock

THINK INSIDE THE CUBE

Innovation comes in many different shapes. The high-volume legal solutions team at Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner makes the case for cubed to Josh Adcock

A BRIGHTER OUTLOOK

Moving enterprise, matter and financial management to the cloud will accelerate now firms have shifted to remote working to handle the Covid-19 crisis. It’s a logical next step, not a leap into the unknown, says Jim Godman, senior director, software sales, at Thomson Reuters Legal Europe