Legal Platform AI: The Answer to the Digital Onion?

Hyperscale Group’s Digital Onion has, for some years, served as a useful framework for understanding the efficiency challenge facing full service law firms. For those unfamiliar with the concept, imagine three concentric circles. The innermost circle represents digital basics - practice management systems, document management, email management.

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Derek Southall
The Death of Best of Breed Systems?

For years large law firms have operated on best of breed systems whether they be PMS, DMS or CRM. By contrast, smaller firms tend to operate on all-in-one systems. Gradually we have seen all of these systems move to a hosted model before increasingly transitioning to become proper cloud-based systems.

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Derek Southall
AI - Time to Stop Drinking the Kool Aid?

Not a day goes by without a new AI headline. Every time you visit LinkedIn or attend a conference you are bombarded with the wonderful things that people are doing with AI. Some of these are grounded in reality where others are perhaps overhyped. One thing is certain in that ever since Gen AI hit the headlines, month by month, AI has become more capable, and this will continue.

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Derek Southall