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17 November 2023 / Shah Karim
Issue: 8049 / Categories: Features , Profession , Technology
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From planning to transformation: Making the most of new tech

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Shah Karim presents a change management strategy to maximise your technology investment
  • Explains how to prepare and implement new tech in order to get the most out of your investment.

The legal landscape is in an unprecedented state of flux, driven by macro-economic trends, ongoing scrutiny of legal spend, and increasingly rapid and disruptive technological advances. While this change is unavoidable, law firms are often ill-prepared to adopt new solutions effectively, adapt work processes and behaviours, and accept and embrace change at the pace necessary to meet client and business objectives.

This lack of preparation and readiness leads firms to take a reactionary approach to change management and related initiatives that neither are sufficiently ambitious in scope and scale nor embrace leading and proven practices. We see this most obviously in a firm’s approach to deployments of technology solutions—where investments in tools and applications with the expectation of significant business impact and value fail to deliver the promised return on investment. This failure is largely

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

Flint Bishop—Charlotte Harris

Flint Bishop—Charlotte Harris

Sheffield expansion continues with appointment of commercial property partner

Browne Jacobson—Paul Duggan

Browne Jacobson—Paul Duggan

Browne Jacobson strengthens banking and finance practice with latest partner appointment Paul Duggan

Ward Hadaway—Chris Piggott

Ward Hadaway—Chris Piggott

Employment partner joins Ward Hadaway

NEWS
The Law Society RFC Festival of Sport returns next month, bringing together legal and financial services professionals for one of the sector’s largest annual sporting events
Legal aid deserts leave almost one in four without adequate access to justice
The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) has warned solicitors and law firms that using artificial intelligence does not alter their professional obligations, amid concerns over inaccurate legal material and client confidentiality
From forgotten interest claims to case-management appeals, a string of procedural developments offers useful—and occasionally cautionary—lessons for practitioners

Jonathan Fisher KC highlights that it now accounts for around 40% of criminal offences, with roughly 70% involving technology, and argues that the UK cannot simply prosecute its way out of the problem. Detection, investigation and prosecution all require improvement, while different fraud types demand tailored responses.

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