a survival guide for legal practice managers.

Cloud solutions facilitate law firms to focus on achieving their business goals, with performance at the core.  A cost-effective solution, the Cloud leverages security, mobility, flexibility, agility, and scalability combined with existing processes, to raise business performance to a new level.

The pandemic has changed employee expectations of their working life. A recent Microsoft survey confirmed that employees want the best of both worlds: 73% want flexible remote work options to continue; at the same time 67 percent are craving more in-person time with their teams.

You hear it over and over: “Just do more with less.”  Somehow you and your department are supposed to do more work, with fewer resources. And the reward if you succeed: do even more—with even less. How are you supposed to do that? Well, that’s up to you to figure out. That’s not their problem. That’s your problem.

As we come out the back of the latest round of Covid restrictions and start to deal with the challenges of getting co-workers back into the office, and getting clients into face-to-face meetings, I start to reflect on the past two years and how much my life has changed, and how much the conversations I am having have changed.

Over the last few years, embracing cloud technology has been all but essential to business survival and continuity. But many teams were forced to fast-track the process as work-from-home mandates went into place practically overnight. Now, there’s a new challenge on the horizon: building the post-pandemic future.

Before we take a look into the ways in which you can optimise your business spend, it’s important to take a look at the different ways in which expenditure is incurred to operate your business.

For law firms, the decision to adopt cloud-based legal practice management software is complex. It involves change management, business disruption, and cost considerations. Plus, finding that elusive “right time” to switch to a new cloud-based system can mean that the decision gets put on the back burner for months (if not years). 

As with most cost models - whether it is IT Support cost, Marketing Agency fee structure or even Building Management cost, they will all vary and as sceptical beings, sometimes when it comes to cheaper options we tend to wonder, what’s the catch? So being the start of the new financial year, we thought we would try and simplify the cost involved in IT Support and explain the most commonly found pricing models out there with the pros and cons of each one.

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