Law Firms

The Thomson Reuters Legal Executive Institute, in partnership with the Georgetown University Law Centre for the Study of the Legal Profession and the University of Oxford Saïd Business School, has launched a major study: ‘The 2017 Alternative Legal Service Study – understanding the growth and benefits of these new legal providers’.

Distributed ledger technology - commonly called 'blockchain' - may potentially be game-changing for several industries, including legal. A new white paper explains why the world's leading companies are investing in advancing blockchain.

Although law firms and legal departments in the Middle East are beginning to recognise the importance of technology to streamline processes and boost workflow efficiencies, they still have work to do to adopt new legal tech and play catch-up with global law firms. Read our new report to find out more.

The frequency with which law firms are falling victim to data breaches and hacks should leave clients questioning their firm’s data security. Are law firms doing enough to protect their clients' data, and where are the weak links?

What makes a star lawyer? The attributes required differ depending on the lawyers’ specialty, but they can also be different depending on the gender of the client identifying the star, according to a new survey by Acritas.