Industry Analysis
Attest Group’s leadership have been partnering with Briefing publication over the past few years to analyse issues and opportunities in the legal market.
November 2024
Firm-wide collaboration: the winning ticket to success
Workplace strategy represents the single greatest opportunity for traditional firms to remain competitive and consume the forecasted global market growth. There’s been plenty of conversation about how the legal market is poised for transformation, without the identified drivers delivering the environment to force tangible transformation — until now.
September 2024
What can law firms learn from other service-driven markets?
A holistic client- and people-driven strategy is critical for any firm wishing to capitalise on what has been an exceptional year for revenue and profit growth at many law firms. In my view, any firm strategy must ensure that all medium- and long-term goals are aligned to a clear, defined business investment strategy.
June 2024
Is your firm due for a process review?
Reflecting on my last column, the parallels between data strategy and process are striking. Most notably, a firm-wide approach to process, as with data, represents transformational opportunities to drive insight and efficiency across the business, which will ultimately enrich the client experience.
April 2024
Why a business-wide data strategy is essential in 2024
To truly harness the power of business services in a client-driven market, the topic of my last column, having a firm-wide data strategy is essential to deliver actionable insights that drive agility in service scalability. It’s our belief that having this agility is the single most critical factor to achieving sustained competitive advantage. Firms that embrace this principle to drive their investment strategy will have the insight to help their clients effectively respond to the challenges they face in an uncertain economic environment.
February 2024
The power of business services in a client-driven market
Workplace strategy represents the single greatest opportunity for traditional firms to remain competitive and consume the forecasted global market growth. There’s been plenty of conversation about how the legal market is poised for transformation, without the identified drivers delivering the environment to force tangible transformation — until now.
February 2023
The road to a stronger strategic data picture
The Briefing Frontiers 2023 survey (formerly known as Legal IT Landscapes) highlights several continuing themes from recent years. The way to ensure that many of these strategic priorities are addressed is to start by focusing on where to secure the best return on investment, especially in the current and medium-term economic climate.
December 2022
Operational vision
As expectations of what legal businesses could and should offer clients evolve against the backdrop of squeezed in-house budgets, law firms need to take a close look at their operating models. But, to do that effectively, they need true visibility of their financial and operational data.
December 2019
Professional performance
It’s no secret by now that the way legal services are delivered is having to evolve to satisfy the changing demands of clients. However, the true value in transformed legal services will be how they are delivered by leveraging technology to optimise those services – while still improving relationships with clients.
June 2019
Financials in future
The legal market is transforming. The shift in power from the law firm to the general counsel is seeing a change in the behaviours of clients, which means now more than ever law firms need to look to the future. That future requires the finance function to become an integral piece of how firms deliver their services to clients.