fresh thinking

3Kites consultants Melanie Farquharson and Sally Roberts worked with SharePoint consultancy ClearPeople on a new intranet and knowledge repository for international law firm, Holman Fenwick Willan. This case study from Clear People provides an overview of the...

So here’s the thing – if you were to spend £3,000,000 on a house with six bedrooms, three reception rooms, a large kitchen, a double garage, a pool and tennis courts would you be happy to only ever use three of the rooms and to leave the others empty ? No, me neither....

As artificial intelligence or AI has started to feature more regularly in both mainstream and legallyspecific media outlets (3Kites’ Paul Longhurst was on the panel at a recent AI event), we thought it would be useful to provide a short paper outlining what it means fo...

As is well documented, a number of legal sector Practice Management Systems (PMS) are approaching the end of their (supported) lives, and this, coupled with the challenges thrown up by expansion and globalisation of some law firms, has proved to be the catalyst for a n...

When we are engaged to work on an intranet project, we are often asked what other law firms are doing with their sites as a starting point for ideas for development. However, law firm intranets can benefit from looking at what is going on outside of the legal sector. I...

As consultants, what we do is to help law firms, in-house legal teams and other professional services organisations to find the best ways of improving the way they do things, often in the context of technology.

Doing this effectively requires a deep understanding of wha...

Are any of the following scenarios familiar in your firm?

• Tables of financial data are created in Word and manual calculations carried out, when Excel could do those calculations automatically and avoid the risk of failing to pick up the consequential changes when o...

For several years it seemed that SharePoint was the answer, regardless of the question. Now that a number of law firms have used SharePoint for different purposes the discussion at our September 2012 KM Forum (one of a regular series) focused on how SharePoint has or h...