Intranets
Time for a new intranet at Leigh Day
Leigh Day is a law firm with offices in London, Manchester and Liverpool. It was founded by Sarah Leigh and Martyn Day and celebrates its 30th anniversary this year. The firm currently has more than 400 staff, the majority in London, but with an office of more than 60 staff in Manchester and a small […]
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Installing an intranet in a small firm – lessons learnt
Leigh Day & Co is a 24partner firm in London that specialises in clinical negligence, personal injury and human rights law. The firm has grown rapidly in the last few years with a total staff of some 150. I was asked to help commission a new intranet for the firm in 2006, it launched in […]
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Introducing an intranet
Leigh Day & Co is a 19-partner firm in London that specialises in clinical negligence, personal injury and human rights law. The firm had previously used a simple intranet that ran on Microsoft FrontPage, maintained by the librarian and IT manager. This had a few pages relating to library services and a gallery of photos […]
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Checklist for an intranet
Implementing an intranet is hard work; it spreads its tentacles right across the firm or chambers (or should do), it takes considerable skill on behalf of the people doing it, it is a major drain on their time and there are real costs (both staff time and IT related). 1. There needs to be somebody […]
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Lextranet – an intranet for a law firm
Less than five years from starting Ingrams Solicitors in 2001, and having expanded to nearly 70 staff across three offices in York, Hull and Harrogate, we discovered we had a communication problem. This surprised us, as we had achieved Investors in People recognition and thought we had established good channels of communication between partners and […]
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Out of the box intranets: Intranet DASHBOARD
It’s the classic IT “build or buy” decision when it comes to deciding on a law firm’s approach to an intranet. What on the surface would appear to be the “safe” route is to go with Microsoft SharePoint. But that’s a bit like saying “no-one ever got fired for buying IBM” a couple of decades […]
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SharePoint and web accessibility
March’s article on SharePoint explained in some detail the “powerful and rather scary” services of the latest version. I believe that using SharePoint to publish to the web or to an intranet may contravene the Disability Discrimination Act, as the system doesn’t publish in a manner that adheres to internationally-recognised accessibility guidelines. The accessibility guidelines […]
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SharePoint – powerful and rather scary
SharePoint is multi-purpose software that can serve many business and IT roles. It can ease staff, and authorised third parties’, access to information, while maintaining its security and integrity. It can also enable individual and team collaboration and information sharing, thereby improving efficiency and productivity, and facilitating the production of high quality, consistent output. SharePoint […]
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SharePoint for the smaller firm
Microsoft’s third version of SharePoint is called Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 or ‘MOSS’ for short. Larger firms have been using SharePoint for some time but smaller firms have generally not had the resources to do so. The latest release of SharePoint Server may enable them now to close the technological divide. Here are some […]
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