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Strategy

This section covers succession, specialisation, mergers, selling a law firm, becoming a partner, and business structure

Starting up

How to plan and execute the process of starting up a new legal practice that is compliant and financially healthy

Finance and accounting

How to set up your firm’s systems to provide the information that enables you to improve profitability and cashflow

Avoiding claims. Insurance

How to avoid professional negligence claims, with examples of common problems and suggested solutions. Plus FAQs on PII

Compliance

This section only covers SRA Accounts Rules and GDPR at the moment. Compliance for start-ups is covered in the Starting up...

Cyber security

How to protect your law firm from cyber attacks. What steps to take if your systems are hacked

Managing people

How to recruit and retain a team that is both happy and highly effective, dealing with the HR issues along the way

Marketing basics

In marketing, like anything, you need to get the basics right. Otherwise the time and money you invest in marketing will be wasted

Winning more clients

How to win new clients, make the most of existing relationships, encourage referrals and generate new leads

Your website

How to approach creating a law firm website that works, from agreeing your objectives to making sure you get the results you want

Social media

Why lawyers need to know about social media, how to make the most of the opportunities and how to avoid potential pitfalls

PR and advertising

How to use PR to build your firm’s reputation; and how to create cost-effective advertising – traditional and online – that delivers results

Current AI and automation in law firms

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Webinar – 14 November 2024 (9.30-10.30am)

 

This will be an AI webinar with a difference. It will NOT be another discussion about how fundamentally important AI is (yes, we know that) and where AI might take us. Nor will it review the AI startups, and the pioneering experiments that the huge City firms are doing with these trailblazers.

Instead, we will reveal what the main legal vendors are doing, what this already allows law firms to automate and what will be possible in 2025. Furthermore, our panel will explain what firms need to do to be ready for these changes.

For this session, we envisage that the questions might include:

  • What simple AI has been in use in the legal sector for years?
  • What are the 'low-hanging fruit' improvements that the latest AI offers any law firm?
  • What progress are the main PMS/DMS vendors making and what AI-related product improvements can we expect in 2025?
  • What AI is being discussed, but is actually a long way from becoming reliable and useful.
  • How are legal chatbots being used to transform the handling of online enquiries?
  • How does AI already make onboarding faster and more reliable?
  • At this stage, what kinds of legal research can AI be relied on to handle safely?
  • How does it speed up document creation and form-filling?
  • Why is good data management so important to implementing AI?
  • How is AI gradually making certain types of law uneconomic for any but the largest firms?
  • How is it impacting conveyancing and its digital transformation?
  • How is it changing the way law firms market themselves?

A panel will take questions from the host and the attendees. Surveys and live polls will ensure that the speakers cover the aspects that the attendees deem most important.

The webinar will provide clear steps towards using AI/automation today and preparing for more AI/automation in 2025.

Host and panel

Our panel includes Jeremy Hyman, a well-known IT consultant in the legal sector who also brings a wealth of knowledge from advising major accounting firms.

Jeremy will be joined by Brendan Ridge of Intapp, who understands what Intapp and other vendors are prioritising.

And Cathy Kirby of Baskerville Drummond, who we have tasked with explaining the AI opportunities for small and medium-sized law firms in particular.

The panel is completed by Ben Trott of Marketing Lawyers, who will summarise the many ways that AI is changing law firm marketing.

As usual, the webinar's host is Andy Poole, a legal sector partner at accountants Armstrong Watson.

 

Registration

Register here: Current AI and automation in law firms

Once registered, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.