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Wedlake Bell, COVID-19 and remote working: thriving in the new norm?

Admin — Thu, 10 Aug 2023 14:36:08 GMT

2020 certainly did not pan out as anyone would have predicted. As lockdown became imminent there was a fast realisation that business would not be running normally. For many firms this was an extremely challenging time – and setting up a remote workforce was only part of it. Stridon have worked with Wedlake Bell LLP for many years – working together to modernise the practice with technology and innovation very much core to the business strategy (learn more: Wedlake Bell case study).

Briefing Legal interviews Matthew Stringer for Innovation Magazine

Admin — Thu, 10 Aug 2023 14:34:41 GMT

Article originally published in Briefing, April 2021

'Defence-in-depth'

Sere Davoudi — Tue, 26 Jul 2022 14:00:23 GMT

A few hundred years ago security was associated with just physical layers.

Positively Productive

matthew@stridon.co.uk (Matthew Stringer) — Thu, 14 Apr 2022 14:35:25 GMT

Matthew Stringer, Chief Experience Officer at Stridon, considers whether you can strike a happy balance between employee productivity and wellbeing in the future legal workplace

The Strategic Disconnect Between Employee Wellbeing and Productivity Gains

Law Firms: Why automation is the key to working smarter

matthew@stridon.co.uk (Matthew Stringer) — Thu, 14 Apr 2022 14:29:46 GMT

Stridon supports Briefing Frontiers 2022: Technology-Driven Business Change

matthew@stridon.co.uk (Matthew Stringer) — Wed, 19 Jan 2022 14:39:12 GMT

Stridon are really excited to be supporting the Briefing Frontiers 2022 half-day event in London on the 10th of February.

Legal Firms: Why People have to be at the centre of Digital Transformation

matthew@stridon.co.uk (Matthew Stringer) — Wed, 05 Jan 2022 13:25:31 GMT

Creating a game-changing innovation culture

By Matthew Stringer, Chief Experience Officer at Stridon

Securing the Modern Law Firm

matthew@stridon.co.uk (Matthew Stringer) — Mon, 29 Nov 2021 17:06:51 GMT

Preventing cyber attacks is an immediate priority for law firms

In the past year with the introduction of hybrid working, the task of securing law firm data has become a significantly more complex proposition. According to PwC's Law Firms' Survey 2021 an increase in ransomware and other cyber attacks have been reported across a number of industries in the past 12 months, and along with hybrid working, which if not adopted securely can increase cyber exposure, has resulted in an increase in the priority for law firms' of 'Reducing Cyber Risk' from seventh in 2020 to third this year

Putting People at the Centre of Tech Innovation: What Law Firm Leaders Need to Know

matthew@stridon.co.uk (Matthew Stringer) — Mon, 22 Nov 2021 13:54:22 GMT

As law firms shape up for economic recovery and growth, many are considering what the future of work will look like.

Legal: A new chapter of change?

Sere Davoudi — Thu, 18 Nov 2021 17:03:35 GMT

How have a broad range of legal businesses in the mid-market handled the increased pace of change, and all the pressures that brings, rapidly introduced and building steam since the early days of a global pandemic?

Which changes would they now especially like to retain in the next phase of their growth plans, and where would further supportive change be of benefit to tomorrow’s business and workforce models?

Briefing has put these questions to a range of business leaders at a sample of leading law firms in our latest special report, including those at Burges Salmon, TLT, Taylor Rose MW, gunnercooke, Weightmans and Fletchers Solicitors.

With future conditions still far from certain, some are now planning their strategic courses further into the future to remain more flexible to respond to circumstances. Others talk of potentially repositioning certain change projects within the overall pipeline in a bid to head off any concerning ‘change fatigue’ that could cost employee engagement. But although a more widespread ‘change mindset’ may be in greater evidence in the corridors and collaboration channels of law firms than was once the case, one thing about which the majority of leaders are clear is that they can’t take their people’s acceptance of a firm’s position on anything for granted. Buy-in to change itself requires investment.

Read the full report