This month’s round-up of best practice management comment, features, and news from across the web includes articles on technological innovation in law firms, workplace productivity, and how to improve your emotional resilience.
Innovation and technology
Legal tech start up gets funding to provide access to justice
A legal tech start-up has won funding from the UK’s leading social tech funder to develop its speech-to-text tool
The Global Legal Post
The Dos and Don’ts of social media for lawyers
Ross Weldon, EMEA marketing manager, talks about the dos and don’ts of social media for lawyers.
Legal Futures
Legal Geek has teamed up with Richard Susskind, Society for Computers and Law and the Judiciary to launch an Online Courts Hackathon .
Legal Geek
Business
Lawyers and businesses warned over impending GDPR deadlines
Business leaders have until 25 May 2018 to prepare for major changes in data protection and privacy law.
The Global Legal Post
10 actionable productivity tips for legal professionals
There’s one big thing that’s killing our ability to focus and give our work the attention it requires: digital distraction — the overwhelming bombardment of text messages, emails, pop-ups, news feeds, and updates from which it is almost impossible to hide.
The Law Society
Travers smith latest to promise agile working
Travers Smith has become the latest city firm to embrace agile working.
Law Gazette
Hogan Lovells trials new ‘continuous feedback’ system to assess lawyer performance
Hogan Lovells is re-evaluating the way it assesses its lawyers’ performances by introducing a new ‘continuous feedback’ appraisal system called ‘Pathways’.
Legal Cheek
60% occupancy is costing your practice
Average desk occupancy in the UK is just less than 60%. That equates to four and a half hours each day with desks sat empty. The legal sector has been slower to address this issue than most.
Claremont
Lawyers get a dressing down after City mega-merger
The UK’s largest legal merger has had an unusual impact on staff wardrobes – lawyers used to ill-fitted suits and bad ties can now wear whatever they want.
The Telegraph
Wellbeing
Staying strong: top ten tips for improving your emotional resilience
For Mental Health Awareness Week , Rita Oscar offered her top tips for developing and improving emotional resilience, helping you to achieve success and happiness.
The Law Society
Why lawyers are particularly vulnerable to mental health issues
Elizabeth Rimmer, CEO of LawCare, shares her tips on how to thrive, not just get through the day.
Legal Cheek
