Law firm strategy and investment research conducted last year by Briefing Magazine and HSBC has proved very prescient. It reported that 70% of strategic leaders expected an increase in law firm merger and acquisition activity in 2023. In April this year, Fairfax Associates confirmed that there were at least as many large law firm mergers […]
3E Managed Service is “Like Having an Extra Person, Who is an Expert in Everything” for Trowers & Hamlins
Challenge Trowers & Hamlins chose Elite 3E as its finance system and worked with Pinnacle on the on-prem implementation throughout, from solution design and development to training. The firm uses the Elite service desk to resolve day-to-day system framework issues; but it also wanted to be more proactive and progressive around 3E development so that […]
Six Cultural Levers to Make Your Firm “Data Informed”
There were two or three key points I came away with from the annual PSMG conference, which were further reinforced on a call I had the following day around data quality issues and the challenges of prompting actions and decisions. The topic is clearly an important and valued one based on the number of firms […]
Merger in Process
The combination of Clyde & Co and BLM into a new legal giant involved key decisions about when and how to move business-critical data and phase out systems to manage risk effectively and maximise the union’s strategic advantage. Global head of finance systems, Jeremy Morris, outlines how it identified this path working with Pinnacle. October’s […]
Leveraging Microsoft to Engage Lawyers in Finance, Risk and MBD Processes
The greatest quest of King Arthur and his Knights was the search for the mythical Holy Grail. The modern law firm has its own legendary equivalent, the much sought-after Holy Grail of lawyers being 100% happy and comfortable around legal technology. It’s a tense stand-off that is as old as digital time, starting up in […]