Year: 2010

The Blacklaws Davis hybrid law firm model

Traditional high street law firms are under attack on every front. The recession reduces their bread and butter property work and they face ever rising overheads and staff costs. The solution for some firms has been to specialise and to gain competitive advantage by adopting a more businesslike approach and IT solutions. Three years ago […]

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Governance and cloud computing

Over the next two or three years, different organisations, in the form of alternative business structures, will be offering legal services. Many will emerge from the outside the legal sector and will almost certainly employ IT models currently in use within the commercial sector. One such model is cloud computing. There are two types of […]

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A new way of using RSS

RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feeds have always been considered to be a simple way to deliver changing content to websites. The benefit for firms is that the site stays “fresh” leading to more page views, longer visitor sessions and (it is hoped, in the case of law firms), impressed site visitors who decide to form […]

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