Most lawyers love paper. Large files and documents have traditionally filled our filing cabinets and huge hangars of storage facilities up and down the country. In recent years, most law firms have embraced paperless working as far as possible, made easier by changes to the law which have meant that deeds and discharges can be […]

If you started a law firm from scratch today, which processes and other aspects of the organisation as it stands would you keep and which would you ditch? It’s a question Briefing has posed in our research and at events several times over the last 10 years – a nod to the challenge that long […]

Within risk and compliance, our observation would be that firms are doing a good job of undertaking the risk assessments as they take on matters – conflicts and anti-money laundering (AML) assessments are getting ever more robust, and while AML evidence-gathering can be tedious and time-consuming, it is being completed. To achieve this, we have […]