When we carried out our annual Legal IT landscapes research in November/December 2019, the section on agile working and hotdesking made for some slightly puzzling reading. We’ve long tracked how firms are doing in terms of having ‘significantly’ (over 10%) more employees than desks in the office for them all – and have generally found […]

For some law firms, the Covid-19 pandemic and ensuing lockdown have finally and forcibly broken the paper chains that used to bind secretaries and fee earners to their desks.

Having expended all that energy fusing their functional silos over the years (a fairly constant theme for us since Briefing began publishing a decade ago), law firms will surely be keen to ensure this doesn’t entirely unravel in the exceptionally uncertain environment facing us today. As we know though, engagement/management of all project stakeholders is […]