Linking and learning

Legal OnRamp, the expanding knowledge-sharing platform for in-house lawyers and their firms, recently launched its first FirmRamp − a practice-specific option for a firm’s own clients.

Feature
Overheads out
Woolley & Co is one law firm that has committed itself to fully outsourcing business-support functions, including marketing efforts and legal software.

Feature
Room for a better view
Fee-earner mobile working options at Freeth Cartwright include the digital dictation of documents from their bank of Blackberry smartphones. Already improving billing efficiency and accuracy, the next step is now to offer access to greater case-related information through a single work environment.

Feature
Opinion: Virtually reality
By looking at the fundamental costs of a law firm through a different lens, and by being prepared to challenge all of the taken-for-granted assumptions about what a firm needs to be credible in the client’s eyes, a new, still nascent model had been created.

Special
Profile: Reed Smith
Reed Smith’s Gregory B. Jordan has now led the 15th largest law firm in the world through the whole of this first decade of a turbulent 21st Century. He was returned to take up his fourth successive term as global managing partner in 2009.

Feature
The real deal flow
On joining online forum Legal OnRamp, Swedish law firm Vinge recently provided all members of the group with an insight into its ‘Deal Tracker’ project to maximise relevant information-sharing activities. Allowing for more sophisticated trend analysis than before, the firm also finds the initiative has benefited business development.

News
New Report - Transition and Succession Planning for Law Firms
A full Executive Summary and the table of contents now available for this new report

Editor's letter
Trial or error?

News
NEW REPORT - Time Management for Lawyers: Making Every Six Minutes Count
Making Every Six Minutes Count It is a comprehensive step-by-step guide to understanding the fundamentals behind using time management techniques to increase productivity, achieve greater success, manage work/life balance, and ultimately have an impact on profitability.

Feature
The backup business
Increasingly, law firms need to demonstrate to their clients they are capable of continuing to deliver the high levels of service they have come to expect in the event of a disaster.

Feature
Going paperless
Fenwick & West LLP’s ‘paperless’ office project stands the law firm in good stead for advising clients on the most appropriate document management, retention/destruction and security policies for their own data stores.

Feature
Opinion: Hard lessons learnt
With a new year comes the hope of a brighter outlook for many professional practices, and for some, closure on possibly the hardest financial years that some practices have ever faced.

Feature
Social working: portrait of a new intranet
The magic-circle law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer recently opted to transform its intranet in an attempt to increase collaboration across diverse teams using an Enterprise 2.0 social business tool.

Feature
Granting space
Reed Smith wanted its new, award-winning intranet to drive greater firm-wide usage through screen appearances that were carefully tailored to an individual’s priorities.

Feature
New ContentQ&A: Spring Law
Formerly a lawyer at both Simmons & Simmons and Denton Wilde Sapte, in 2002 Tim Perry founded Spring Law as an alternative to the traditional law firm partnership structure. He tells Richard Brent why he now expects to welcome a new wave of disenchanted or displaced talent.