500 days of Lockdown

Today marks 500 days since Boris announced Lockdown on 20th March 2020.

This has affected people in a wide range of ways but we thought it might be helpful to list some of the typical changes we have heard in the market and from our clients. Hopefully this will help people with their planning. In no particular order the following is a selection of what we are hearing:

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Derek Southall
The Silver Lining of Cloud Software?

A question which we regularly get asked by law firms is “should we move to the cloud?”

First, you probably have no choice. This is the direction of travel of the IT industry and where all the investment is going. Worldwide end-user spending on public cloud services is forecast to grow 23.1% in 2021 to total $332.3 billion, up from $270 billion in 2020, according to the latest forecast from Gartner, Inc.

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Derek Southall
The Search for the Missing Middle

Back in 1998 I was a partner and head of strategic development at a large commercial law firm. We were about to change all of our key systems ahead of year 2000. There were a lot of reasons for this, not least the looming Millennium Bug, which turned out to be more of a stumbling mosquito with barely any impact.

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Derek Southall