The Legl blog

At Legl we enable firms to take payments online from clients quickly and securely – both through CrowdJustice and Pay by Legl. Our FCA-regulated payment processor, Stripe, has updated its Know Your Customer (KYC) requirements which means we need firms … Read More

We live in an age of online payments – it has never before been easier to buy the things you need. This change is coming to legal services and it’s being driven by client demand. With over 80% of UK … Read More

Technology can help lawyers increase efficiency, reduce costs and achieve better outcomes for clients, finds the Law Society. In their guide, an Introduction to LawTech, published this week, the Law Society highlights the benefits of legal technology and provides a guide … Read More

As a lawyer, it seems to me like we have an obligation not just to be part of an imperfect system, but to think about how we can make the system itself a bit better. That’s why I founded CrowdJustice … Read More

LawNet, the network for independent law firms in the UK and Ireland, published its white paper, Targeting Exceptional Client Experience. Here we summarise the top 5 lessons for law firms from LawNet. LawNet conducted research across 70,000 surveys and 5,000 … Read More

Traditionally, law firms have spent hundreds of hours managing anti-money laundering risk to meet regulatory obligations. But now there is a new breed of law firm – one which uses technology to turn managing this risk into a competitive advantage. … Read More

Sam Moore is Scotland’s first accredited legal technologist and Burness Paull’s dedicated Innovation Manager. We talk to him about why legal technology is important to the modern law firm. 1. What do you think is the biggest challenge facing law … Read More

On 25 November 2019 the SRA’s published its new Standards & Regulations (STARs) and it has got people talking. Not just because STAR puns in legal are fun (they are), and not because the new rules dramatically change regulatory obligations … Read More

This year’s Legal Futures Innovation Conference brought together hundreds of lawyers, technologists and industry experts innovating legal services. In case you missed the event, here are my five key takeaways. 1. Business professionals running law firms is the future “Lawyers … Read More

How can legal technology make legal services more relevant to consumers and what’s holding the legal sector back? We speak to Mark A. Cohen, CEO and Founder of Legal Mosaic, global thought leader on legal technology and regular contributor to … Read More